I like the idea, but unfortunately, I doubt it would work well outside maybe a niche retro games geek thing, as the arcade model has lost the two things it had over the home game market:
1:the Ability to play against strangers and friends, with Xbox live, PSN, and the Internet, not as many people will see the appeal of going to the arcade to do the same
2: The arcade games were light-years ahead of what was being played at home, the arcade games having between 5-10 years ahead of the home console in terms of graphics and playability, once the home console caught up, people lost interest. In a way,games in arcades were essentially "the games of tomorrow, today!". Maybe if the arcade machine could feature games that were next generation in quality, while made with the same lead time and cost of a console game, maybe, but I dunno. I just dunno if they could come back to profitability.
It is kinda sad, being my first experience in gaming was on a Centipede arcade machine owned by my grandma, as well as the arcade at Lost Valley Lake, a few times when I vacationed there in the summer as a boy. That being said, arcades were dying at the time, and most were already gone.
(If I could, I would buy that Centipede game from my uncle!)
should we bring pay to play arcade centers back?
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I like the idea, but unfortunately, I doubt it would work well outside maybe a niche retro games geek thing, as the arcade model has lost the two things it had over the home game market:
1:the Ability to play against strangers and friends, with Xbox live, PSN, and the Internet, not as many people will see the appeal of going to the arcade to do the same
2: The arcade games were light-years ahead of what was being played at home, the arcade games having between 5-10 years ahead of the home console in terms of graphics and playability, once the home console caught up, people lost interest. In a way,games in arcades were essentially "the games of tomorrow, today!". Maybe if the arcade machine could feature games that were next generation in quality, while made with the same lead time and cost of a console game, maybe, but I dunno. I just dunno if they could come back to profitability.
It is kinda sad, being my first experience in gaming was on a Centipede arcade machine owned by my grandma, as well as the arcade at Lost Valley Lake, a few times when I vacationed there in the summer as a boy. That being said, arcades were dying at the time, and most were already gone.
(If I could, I would buy that Centipede game from my uncle!)