Is the Arcade dying?

[Zelphiel]

do you think that arcades are dying out to home consoles? In ways, except for the fighting game market and for FPS games I think they, unfortunately are.

[Chaos Theory]

Yes well it could be because all the records are so high )mine is the best for Towerball)

[Zelphiel]

I'm not talking about our arcade......

[Laggy]

lol yes i think so, it is easyer to play at home, and the fact that you can buy almost any arcade game for a home console doesnt help the arcades at all...IMO arcade games will always be great though

[Lancet Jades]

Yeah, arcade rocks, but fewer people will go to them, for it is easier to buy the game from a store and play it from your couch, or bed, or wherever.

[Leknaat]

I like the arcade I just can't stand it when people stand over me. It distracts me...

[Laggy]

yeah that makes me mad aswell...i be all go away!..im playing wait yopur damn turn!!! lol

[Lancet Jades]

Lol, yeah. I never really go to the arcade....so i'm guess i'm part of the cause...lol

[Zelphiel]

I like it when people crowd around... I guess it's because I enjoy the competitave nature of fighters.

[Aoi Asahina]

The arcades are really dying. I only went to the arcade was to meet up with friends, go to tournaments, and to play ddr extreme and soul calibur

[Zelphiel]

The arcades are really dying. I only went to the arcade was to meet up with friends, go to tournaments, and to play ddr extreme and soul calibur


same here, except my games are Soul Calibur 2 and Marvel vs Capcom 2.

[Twentysack Jones]

I remember reading an article about the death of Arcades long, long ago. Back in the days when the PS One was just starting to get the publicity hype and the 16-bit era was drawing to a close.

It's all because of this...theoretically, of course.

Home console systems have all of the games offered in the Arcades and then some. The home gaming experience is richer, more comfortable, and full of more variety than the Arcades these days. Your local quarter-muncher has probably been reduced to a bunch of racers, fighters, and shooters. Add to this, with the advent of online gaming, you don't have to wait for some smelly kid to come up next to you and drop a few quarters in...all you've gotta do is find a server, pwn, or be pwn'd.

[The Wang Master]

I think it has something to do with the gradual spending of money. I want to play a game I spend $15 and I own it. At the arcade, I can spend 5 dollars to be occupied for 30 minutes killing **** with a gun or something and I would have to keep spending money to play it. Granted the screen is bigger.

I do not have to worry about my quarters being taken and the machine is broken and I can't get them back. I do not have to worry about the gun being off. I do not have to consider the sticky fingers of those ****ing kids that love just touching the damn machine.

[Lancet Jades]

So true...

I'm not much of an arcade person, but arcades are still cool. I'd go to one if I had someone to go with.

Ashes to ashes, I guess...

[idgaf rpgfan]

The arcdades aren't dying, they just have to reinvent themselves. Up here in Seattle we have Gameworks which is an arcade that is geared to adults with multiplayer games and such.

[Kiros]

i dont think its dying...i love the arcade

[Kaffee]

I don;t think that arcade's are dying, there always be someone who'll put quarters in those machines.

[The Wang Master]

well with online games you get the wonderful lag time that lets other people see you just long enough for you to get shot. But when I see someone my screen freezes and I am dead when it starts moving again. I need to find the key code for Renegade.

I just need more money, and I guess arcades are like going to the movies, sure you can play it at home but it's not the same enviroment, and you have a less likely chance of scoring some tail. . .unless women do magicly appear infront of you TV screen, which would be awesome. No Fattties please

[White]

the only reason i go to the Arcade anymore is the play in SC and Tekken Tournaments

[Laggy]

thearcade IS dieing, rather or not some people still play it doesnt matter, i can remember, and im sure some of you guys remember when you had to stand in line to play at a arcade, that never happends anymore, you go, you play...

most of the old arcade games that i use to play arent even around anymore, and the ones that are, are hard to find.. i think thats why alot of people play EFs arcade, some of the games in there rule because we use to play them along time ago ^_^

[Twentysack Jones]

well with online games you get the wonderful lag time that lets other people see you just long enough for you to get shot. But when I see someone my screen freezes and I am dead when it starts moving again. I need to find the key code for Renegade.

I just need more money, and I guess arcades are like going to the movies, sure you can play it at home but it's not the same enviroment, and you have a less likely chance of scoring some tail. . .unless women do magicly appear infront of you TV screen, which would be awesome. No Fattties please
Oh yeah, getting the high score on the latest rendition of Area 51 is DEFINETELY the sexiest thing on earth! :chuckle

But Online games are about the same as arcades; you either have 'em, or you don't. Nearest arcade for me that's worth going to is...countless hours away. Lucky for me, however, we have DSL, so lag occurs less frequently...

However, now lagging is no longer an excuse...I'm just a bad shot... :(

[Kal]

Yeah Arcades are dying. some in our town don't even get business they charge like a dollar for the stupidest games in teh world!

[Day]

Nah. People are in the arcades all the time around here. Theres never less than like 40 people there.

[Ryw]

All the arcades around here have gone the way of the dodo...

[Pinkie Pie]

Unfortunately, the arcades have been dying for a long time...

Console gaming has been shifting the focus towards home gaming for a long time... The only arcade games that are really getting any attention anymore are FPS games and fighters... it's hard to replicate the arcade feel of fighting games on consoles, so until fighting games are given more online play and better controls for the consoles, I think that the fighting games will keep the arcades alive for a little longer.

[Zelphiel]

something else I forgot to add to the remaining arcade popularity is racing games and dance games.

those still seem to do pretty well.

[Altima]

I haven't been to the arcade in like 8 years or more. I used to play wrestling games in there lol. Almost beat it all thhrough too and was on my last quarters on the last set of people to fight and a god damn mother fucking person comes and puts his money in beside me taking over my opponents with refilled life and shit and kills me. I hate iggnorant people :( My dreaming of pwning that game were dashed forever :(

[HarbingerLoki]

It matters where, I suppose. If you live in a big city and go down to the mall( In Boise anyway) there isn't alot of kids there which I kinda like, but the generality is pretty much they are dying out slowly. In small towns like Bellevue and Hailey, ID, we have a very small arcade in the bowling alley and alot of us go down there on weekends and hang out and play the few games and bowl at the same time. In big cities, no one seems to care about them because they're thinking, "It will always be there." but in little ones they're the most exciting thing on the map so everyone goes to play them. Now I'm going to stop rambling and leave it at that.

[[PhiberOpticks]]

In Jersey, arcades haven't died out. There's one at a nearby mall, that a lot of kids go to on the weekends. Sometimes, Cracka Feen, me, and some other guys go there and play stuff, mainly DDR and TIme Crisis 3.

[Dark Marmosett]

NO.....not really...theres alot of arcades in my area......liek theres one in the whitehall mall....and in most movies theaters...they have arcades in them.....and so does planet trog have ton of arcade games. They even have original frogger there! Also most colleges have a huge rec area for arcading.

[Day]

Lucky as hell. Ain't an arcade around me for about 20 minutes.

[Dark Marmosett]

What are you talking about....it mainly takes me about the same time....maybe even more to get to any of those places that have arcades.

[Day]

Oh.. Well, either, I'd spend hours in the arcade every day if there was one in town.

[Ace of Jades]

Id say yes because of one thing....

THERE IS TOO MANY OF THEM...people dont play them as much anymore because once they set a record it will proably be beat...go back to the old games...where it would take more then a few tried to beat some odd game that has only been played 5 times...SO I would say stop putting in new ones!!!

[T1000416]

There, I just gave the ARcade life

[Pinkie Pie]

Actually, we're referring to actual arcades, not the forum one.

Anyways, there are hardly too many arcades. There are very few that are big at all, outside of places like Dave and Busters and Gameworks, I've really only seen little arcades that have about 20 machines in it. Half of them are fighting games, about 45% are FPS games, and the other 5% are racing and dance games.

[T1000416]

Actually, we're referring to actual arcades, not the forum one.

Oh. That's what I get for not reading the first post

Yeah, real arcades are dead. he one closest to me closed up years ago. The only one near is a Chuckie Cheese and a Haunted Trails.....sad

[Day]

Well, I'm pretty sure it depends on where you live, because friggin everyone is in Fun n' Games when I go.

[Miles]

I think evolution would be a better word. People don't need to run out to the arcade and spend a ton of money in a machine when they can play a game at home by paying a one off charge, you know?

Plus, here...It's harder to find arcades. They're all out by the seaside...When you live in a city like this...It's harder to find them. I only know of one and that's at the bowling alley.

But...Dying sounds a lil evil. It's just, things change.