Topic: Arcades are not dead in the west

In Virginia, Finding Arcades machines used to be a breeze, Well at least in late 2013 and early 2014, one of the Arcade place is closed and the only Arcade machines that I can find are in the movies near Chesapeake Square, An place named Jullian's is similar to Chuck E. Cheese's, but better. I just realized that an Arcade place that's used to be on the Chesapeake Mall is called Area 51 Arcade. The Arcade place is officially closed though, And they're also still alive, just not on the Mall.

Even in Japan I think for the less popular model ones the business model has changed. Pay for the machine once and then get the games free for that machine and take some percentage give some to the developer and some to the platform operator.

The dedicated machines are £20000 each plus the electricity of keeping them on pretty hard to make them pay other than in areas with tons of people passing through all the time. (That is why motorway service stations still have them).

I think the only thing that could rejuvenate arcades is when they're doing something you just can't experience at home. I could see CoD using Oculus, a light gun and the treadmill thing being popular but how much would they have to charge to make it viable and would people still want to pay for the short goes that arcades used to rely on...?

If non fast food chains were dying, this would be an accurate statement.

Has anyone been to a Round 1 Arcade? It opened recently in Lakewood, CA. It's got plenty of the arcade machines you see in Dave and Busters, but there's two sections that are different. Section 1 has an area dedicated to 2D fighters. Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, and newer ones like Tekken 6 and Street Fighter 4. Section 2 has a bunch of Japanese arcade machines. There's a couple Hastune Miku games, the Taiko drum guy game,and some game with DJ turntables too. The reason the descriptions suck is because I can't read Japanese and it's hard to tell what's going on. Best part is that there's a F-Zero AX machine there, so that's great too.

Yep. pretty much the only Arcade feeling I get in Cali is when the State Fair comes around and I go to the mini arcades they have set up there. Other then that the only places I can play an arcade game is bowling allies, movie theaters, pizza restaurants, water parks and mini golf places. The last true Arcade in my area closed down about 10 years ago.

Also, They're still an decent amount of arcades in Virginia too. it's really not that Uncommon. If Area 51 figured out the location for their arcade. IDK when they're going to open again.

I apologize for Double posting, but buying an Arcade Machine is just too Darn expensive, epescially around $1000 - $4000. I would rather get the Near Arcade perfect Home version of the game, or just find the Arcade place and pay 50 cents or $1. It depends on which setting is the Arcade on.

Why would you do that? Todays consoles and even the last previous gens have near perfect ports of the most popular arcade games. Heck I have on Gamecube a Midway collection of old Arcade games.

@Tasuki I also added an second option which I already did. I know I wouldn't obviously waste an thousand dollars just for an Machine. I'm just saying that Buying machine is just too expensive. Hell, I would've spend my money somewhere else that's actually worth $1000 - $4000. :l Also for 2D Arcade Fighters in 1995 - 2000, You're better off with the Japanese Saturn, Getting AR 4mb auto (Newer version of it), the Modding the heck out of your Saturn. Even SNK's games on the Saturn is good enough instead of getting of the AES version of it.

I played at Flipper McCoy's when I went to Virginia Beach back in June. The classics section had games like Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Galaga, Jr. Pac-Man, Ghosts n Goblins, Donkey Kong, the arcade version of Super Mario Bros, and more.

http://www.virginiabeach.com/kids/flipper-mccoys

I'd definitely be willing to spend $1000+ on a pinball machine, since no video game can recreate a true to life pinball experience. Problem is, I just can't seem to save up enough. I don't buy a lot of stuff, but every few months it seems like some expensive thing I want comes up, or a bunch of cheaper things all at once. One day I'll save up enough...

Heck I know some people even build their own nowadays with a PC and MAME emulators.

I know @SuperKMx: Over at Pure Xbox did something like that.

http://www.purexbox.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=274

Mame builds on P.C. aren't surprising to me, but doing on a Original Xbox, that's interesting for an Mame build....

MVS is much cheaper. Universe Bios makes it work the same as an AES.

Saturn might have been good enough but it stopped too early.

Arcade games are a much better use of money than so called rare NES or SNES games in my mind anyway.

Yeah my friend had a modded Xbox with a bunch of arcade games on it. The only problem with modding an Xbox is that you need certain games to do it. If I was to go that route I would just go with a Wii.