Why are arcades dead in the west

because we arent as retarded as japs think

Why are arcades thriving in japan?

They're an infantilized people

what did he mean by this?

Japs are reluctant to let go of traditions. Even if they are retarded traditions.

Because playing alone is stigmatized, like getting drunk by yourself.

homogeneous population and a high-trust society.

He meant go back to >>>Holla Forums

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I never understood the appeal of arcade games even as a kid. I could detect the bullshit of having to pay for lives (or time) even then.

But for how long?

Have you ever tried to 1cc something in your life?

They're not really doing well over there too, the difference is they still exist.

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Arcades tend to be a gathering of delinquents and fights would erupt over nothing. Kind of like PC clubs.
Not even going to go over what shit happens there at nighttime. Drug deals and hookers arranging jobs are not unusual.
It might have been a fun place at some initial moment but usually ends up as a den of lowlives.

you sound like a 90's housewife

Why is porn better in japoonoos?

That's a lot of darkies.

Because you hate jewish porn

Now that i think about it this does make sense.
What if the whides didnt like being surrounded by "diversity" and stayed home instead which killed arcades..

I became like that after seeing a few retarded situations over there:
There was a ton of shit going on there. Not all of which I would like to repeat.

Jewesses are hot tbh

What do they play though?

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Because the burgers didnt want to pay and fucked the machines up.

In the west, you have space for a console and computer so you can just emulate the games.
In Japan, you can't fit those things in your home, so you go to an arcade.

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Please go on

Because they have shitty lives and small apartments

Common games I've seen are Overwatch, Payday, Hearts of Iron III and IV and Serious Sam. Other than that it's pretty random.

Is this the famed summer-Holla Forums I've heard so much about? Or did I stumble into a Youtube comment section?

Its not just that, its also the fact that public vending/entertainmment machines are never or almost never vandalized due to their culture.

I think you mean lack of "diversity"

It's probably population density, arcades still exist in tourist areas like Las Vegas and shit

Thats halfway decent actually

Why are you even doubting your claim?

That works too
Vidya going mainstream was a mistake

They dont do it because those machines are keeping them alive.

Arcades require high population density and constant foot traffic to thrive.

American cities with high population density are hives of crime. Owning a car is basically required to have a job in most of the country so there's the issue of parking. This can be offset by setting up shop in a mall or boardwalk, but the property value of them is absurd. This has led to most of them dropping what we consider "proper" arcade games in favor of coin dozers, and $1 per play variations of smartphone games.

and small benises

>>>/4chan/

I want you to take a look at this. On the left is a Japanese Neo Geo cabinet, and on the right is an American Neo Geo cabinet.

The American cabinet is still a standing type while the Japanese cabinet has become a sitting one. The western market still clung to the idea that arcade games were quick diversions while the eastern market realized that arcade games were becoming a past-time in their own right. This becomes evident in their styles of cabinet.

That is why arcades in the west are dead and console gaming is king. As games got longer and more complex, players weren't willing to stand at a cabinet for an hour or more when they could get the same experience at home and sit on their comfy couch. Western arcades didn't adapt, which is why they're now a novelty instead of major money makers.

Maybe he got it from the archive.

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That makes alot sense.
Back in January, I went to Chicago for a tourney and my friend insisted that we go to Galloping Ghosts. It was everything I ever wanted in an arcade, but something became very clear, my legs were not okay. Then I realized that there were chairs scattered around the building and anyone could take one if they were playing a long session or whatever. The only sit down cabinets were either imported from Japan or sim games.

later
or
These clubs were filled with morons, from the staff to the customers.

IDs were a mistake.

opinion dismissed

Are you Brazilian or some shit?

The nips I'm friends with tend to stick with things like EU, RoOst/Ro2/RS, Arma II/III and random VN's from time to time.

Slavland shortly after the fall of communism. But don't delude yourself and think it is any different elsewhere. In japan arcades are also a den of lowlives after dark.

I think the only time I met a Nip ingame outside EDF was Project Reality.
His english accent was so bad that I laughed every time his mic was on.

That explains it

White niggers. Your story makes perfect sense now.

Any place like that is bound to attract lowlifes. Especially one that works during the night.
If you are a burger, just imagine the amount of actual niggers who would frequent it.

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sure user

They aren't dead if anything they're making a come back. That's just my home arcade there are three within walking distance of that one, two of which serve alcohol.

There isn't a single one in my country
Not a single one user

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It's North Carolina nigger. Two years ago we had none now there are so many you can enter a college town without walking into three of them.

Also, I've noticed that any area that attracts hipsters has arcades. The fake geek = cool thing is still in style so arcades are springing up to cater to these people.

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Hillbillies don't have opinions worth listening to.

Whatever you say user. NC is still /comfy/ as fuck outside of shit holes like Charlotte and the state capital. It isn't my fault so much trash moved here to our urban areas.

I want summer to end already and we're barley into June.

Round 1 is gonna bring back arcades. I just know it.
The one at my local mall is great.

I can list multiple reasons

Some combination of this is why.

I think I found the problem.

Wonder how fucked I'd be if I tried opening one.

Run a real business or have a real job and run the arcade on the side maybe?

I have been buying broken PCBs and fixing them for a while now. One day i hope to finish my cabnet design and start assembling them for coin op. There are a lot of empty buildings large enough to house an arcade and there is a college nearby so i think it could work where i am.

They just need to be more innovative :^)

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Which was the last time west made a good game?

Civilization is dying a slow and painful death

Arcade game or in general?

Because machines are expensive, and people won't pay a dollar per game. In the eighties, a quarter was like a dollar, and there were even two quarter games back then.

We need cheaper arcade systems.

Reminder that PCBs like "Just Another Pandora's Box" are a thing.
That has to be the cheapest arcade system I know of, and that's PC-based.

Because people don't want to drive out to an arcade to go for a few hours. I live near a decent arcade and my friends refuse to go because "you can play that stuff at home". Compare that to Japan where people are walking everywhere and arcades are walk able distance to their house/school/work. Because of the acceptability, its a big market in Japan so companies make more games and arcades stay open more. Also most of the popular chain arcades have like Dave and Busters have really shitty mobile games as arcade games because all the kids care about is getting tickets for a shitty prize. Most of these places don't even have a single fighting game.

I just want people to play fighting games with me in person, is that so hard to ask.

niggers are astronauts tbh

Real talk - I wouldn't mind the world where space nazis are real.

Thanks for the recommendation, but since you said it, what was the last good arcade game west made.

What even was the last arcade game that west made at all?

Some kind of ticketshit, no doubt. What is it with western arcades and ticketshit anyway?

Safer to buy your kid a ticket rather than giving it money outright? I dunno.

no he means arcade games that give you tickets as a reward and it's because arcades are semi-skill based legal gambling for children.

The kid who wants to play the game plays 1-2 times, the kid who wants that shitty 4$ plush will play 10 times.

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Yeah, this.

I don't drive (never taught, going to soon but that's a good money investment) so I walk and bus around. I live in a medium sized city. It would take hours to get to a close enough decent sized arcade.

I dunno, I thought user was going to surprise me.

Niggers ruined them

They're fun and not cinematic

They don't have time for PC games

/thread

who's the artist?
the body is well drawn, fuck that creepy furshit though

It will be dead within the next 100-200 years when the white populations are too small to have any relevance in the world

Because Arcade machines don't make short term profit anymore.
Why do you think Arcades in the west are usually Android Cabinets with Mobile shit on them?

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It's not gambling if it's skill based…

Oh and Also gangs that can't behave themselves.
Pretty sure Japan has Gangs too, but they don't usually act like assholes for no reason.

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skee ball is skill based but capped and unfun if you've been playing it for a while, most ticket giving arcade games however are. RNG is a cancer and RNG for tickets is even more so.
Don't imply most ticket giving arcade machines weren't RNG or hope you came a the right time for the best jackpot

In the UK atleast it's because they had the great idea of charging £1 for a credit.

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The last new western arcade game in the west that wasn't a phone game port that I had ever seen was some shitty "flight simulator" at DnB. The entire thing was just a movie that went full Micheal Bay with explosions. Not even the slightest challenge to shooting down planes.

It feels more rewarding to "win" something than to just buy it. Plus, most children are raised with ticketcentric arcade machines.

are you sure they werent the ones keeping it alive as long they have?
im thinking niggers stopping going to arcades because every one of them has a ps4 or xbox these days

user, spics and nogs are the #1 cause of property damage

and violent crime
and non-violent crime

Are you from Sarajevo by any chance? All of those stories felt oddly reminiscent of my time in internet clubs, which were a gathering for dudebros whose gaming career begun and ended with FIFA and Counter Strike.

Gangs and Drunks

that doesnt explain how arcades are just obsolete, aside from home consoles being ever more popular, smart phones are another factor

It makes sense, I mean, you don't see many Arcades in Africa either.

The only decent "arcades" left outside of Manhattan and not piss sniffing hipster shit , are Coney Island and a bunch of comic book shops that smell like rat shit, like the one at Fordam Plaza and the other one , smack dab in Jew City Brookyln.

Not to mention faggots breaking machines and the upkeep on them, Arcades died horribly.

Bulgaria. But I assume our PC club situation was very similar.

Bulgaria is considered slavland?

Yes. The origin is bulgars + slavs(majority) + some smaller groups of thracians. It was here that the cyrilic alphabet was written, supported by our kings. Why would we not be slavs ?

Dude, I live half an hour from the largest arcade on the planet and it's doing just fine.

nintendo is to blame entirely.

The Bulgars (also Bulghars, Bulgari, Bolgars, Bolghars, Bolgari;[1] Proto-Bulgarians[2]) were semi-nomadic warrior Turkic tribes who flourished in the Pontic-Caspian steppe and the Volga region during the 7th century. Emerging as nomadic equestrians in the Volga-Ural region

You know there is a difference between bulgar and bulgarian, right ?

Where the fuck do you think the word bulgarian comes from

Idk, im no historian, user.

The population is a mix, but the majority was slavs.
It's bulgaria because the bulgars came and created a country out of a bunch of warring tribes and naturally they took the leading role. But the majority of the population of bulgaria was and is slavic.
The origin of the bulgars has been under constant debate since forever. One thing is known about them however: they built countries where they went.

This really pissed me off the one time I went to a barcade, the place got super fucking packed but almost nobody was playing any of the machines. It was just full of hipsters or whatever standing around talking to each other to the point where it was almost impossible to actually get to the cabinets.

The smartphone has replaced the arcade in terms of games that make money.

Be happy they aren't playing. Those hipster fucks button mash any machine they get their mitts on. Last time I went to the barcade almost every machine was broken because of this so we just played air hockey.

I'd be happier if they just went to another fucking bar. I guess it's thanks to those fuckers paying for overpriced drinks that barcades survive but what's the point if I can't enjoy them due to those shitters being there?

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They aren't, they just exist.

Because who in their right mind would pay several micro-sums each time they want to game for a bit (and hoping you don't die) compared to downloading a full game for free.

The Arcades became a useless the second better games became available in your home for a smaller sum.

Those are the most disgusting females I have ever seen.

because the west doesn't have those arcade "stick your dick in the machine hole" like the japs literally do

Guoh.
Draws the best furshit.

Ah the beloved Chinatown Fair Arcade. Nyc user here as well. When my friend told me it was closing down I was in disbelief. Went there to see it and shit it felt like a funeral for a family member. I literally met some cool peeps down there during the DDR phase inb4 the west wanted to shoot their spin on it. And yeah I heard about it turning into some Chinese Chuck E Cheese as well in which just fucked my whole shit up. I mean between the shit explained and shit I still enjoyed going there.

pics or fake

They're not thriving, but most arcade machines are purchased to supplement a larger business. There's a reason GCCX mostly goes to small candy stores when they do the travel bits. Even over there, very few places offer the machines as the main attraction. You can also see this in America. Where do you see arcade machines? Barcades, Dave & Busters, Chuck E. Cheese, bowling alleys.

In addition, most of them are in dense urban neighborhoods so they have a much larger customer base, and avoid the trappings of thanks to their high-trust, low-crime, homogeneous society. The only other areas that really worked were wealthy shopping malls.

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I would stick my dick in the ms pacman

Quite the opposite my fellow. Japs don't even use PCs.

They should be.

I was already in my late teens when I came across this game at a small arcade. Was so much fun, shame I'll never find one again.

They're more or less obsolete. Asian businesses still make heavy use of fax machines because tradition > efficiency in nipland.

Back then arcades were powerful machines and people couldn't get that kind of experience at home, but now they can. So why haven't arcades advanced to, say, powerful VR machines? VR is pretty expensive and requires large space so the average joe doesn't own it.

now thats a good question

They aren't, kill yourself meme-spouter

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Most "arcades" in japan are casinos.

Because you can't put an unskippable tutorial just to teach you the basic controls on an arcade machine. They had to evolve out of this.

Japanese gang members are less aggressive.

Organized crime that basically integrated into society years ago isn't comparable to American street gangs in almost any way.

They're still gangs.

The Yakuza have had fewer police confrontations in the past twenty years than street gangs within fifty miles of me have had in the past hour.

Yeah, but being stupid isn't a mandatory qualifier for being a gang.

Oh so that group of beaner kids that tagged my middleschool with their shitty gang logo are basically the same as the niggers making thousand dollar drug trades in my local park, good to know.

On a fundamental level, yes. What you are proposing however is the concept of presenting the extremes of a particular idea and insisting that it isn't equatable.

arcades where never fun

Because there's not enough interest anymore what with the home video game market dominating, and most of the new stuff coming out nowadays are ports of mobile phone games, I kid you not. Why go out and feed quarters to a machine when you can pay for a console that can do everything the arcade machine can do and more without constantly asking you for money? That last part has become true of home games, though, albeit in a more sinister way.

Calling Japanese gang members "less aggressive" is a ridiculous understatement. There is a line where being technically correct becomes piratical lying and you crossed it.

Well, I am on a boat, so perhaps it is only correct that I am of having been piratical with you.

games with intentional flaws that would kill you, I.E. not being able to go to the leftmost/rightmost part of the screen in Galaga (or Galaxian, it was one of them)

America's infanstructure is designed around vehicular transportation. Very few areas are built in such a way that you can just walk from place to place as part of your daily routine, and even places that are in majorily populated cities with big suburbs and shopping areas aren't served by public transportation due to how spread out shit is.

In japan, the infanstructure is for the most part built on much older city planning from many hundreds of years ago, so stuff is packed closer and there's actual random people who could pop into arcades and pass by

I still don't know how people make that mistake.

The Yakuza is 100% less aggressive than any typical american gang.

The old Yakuza was, they died in the 90s. The new Yakuza is Nigerian.

This tbqhl

wut

To keep one person's game center thriving.

SEGA died and Sony took their place. Gaming hasn't been the same since.

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On the day of the rope, you'll be burned alive just to spice things up.

you are clearly a nigger

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you might wanna get those large hooks out of your mouths

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nigger a typo while shitposting does not equal illiteracy you shitty IP jumping peace of reddit trash.

but hey, if konami makes pachinko machines that means pachinko is video games

so what youre saying is the police force is corrupt and people have just accepted it as a fact of life

So you're saying we need to drop two more bombs?

Politicans in Germany killed them at the end of the 70s with a shittone of red tape, fearing that those mashines will turn kids into perverts and killers.

In Brussels and Berlin

I do have a VPN, but using it on Holla Forums just to argue with an user would be a new low.

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I miss going to a local place for laser tag and arcade games. One day they shut down the laser tag and went arcade-only. They closed down only a few months after that.

Lots of competition and little demand to go somewhere to play a video game when you have them accessible in your own home or even on the go. They're not entirely dead, but you're not going to see arcade-only buildings anymore unless it's a major city. Even then you'd have to get a lot of visitors or tourists to be worth it.
You can still find arcades in malls, bars, bowling alleys, kids party places, etc. Some of them even have big arcade rooms, but some just have maybe a couple machines.

Saw an arcade of Guitar Hero a couple years back alongside Flappy Bird. For an original arcade game, I can't remember.

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WUZ

mfw

I would like to see holographic arcade machines someday, but who knows when that will take off. It would have been cool if arcade chains in the 90s adapted online features. But those nippon seated arcade machines make me wonder what else could be done.

One thing I see casinos doing is a profile system off swipe cards, it would be nice if this could be adapted to store high scores, play online or to hold extra credits, since people don't hoard onto spare change like the 80s. One thing I have noticed is that Japan still by and large a cash based society which makes change based arcades more viable.

Nigger machines?

Surprised this wasn't talked about more. This is it right here. They were a rip off.

I only ever got to play this once and then the arcade got rid of it for no particular reason. Western arcades are now mostly boring and filled with screaming kids.

America basically sounds like where I live, Australia.
Wish I could live in Japan since it would motivate me to walk around without worrying about traffic so much or even to be able to catch a train without some retard driving on the obvious tracks and then getting hit by a train or light rail.

Internet cafes are also horrible too and I'm glad I can afford my own computer and turn my house into a personal arcade instead.

Claw machines in which you win shoes, I shit you not

fucking off faggot europe needs to be saved

we dont have to save all of it

yes we do

Some places like Gameworks use cards to store credits, but I like the high score idea. There's also Galloping Ghosts, which is about the only good thing about living in Chicongo

What I'm curious about is why they don't set up a couple consoles with demos or popular game like FUCKING GAMESTOP. At least before the casual flood that came with the Wii, people wouldn't play games outside a friend's house because of how expensive it was to start. Every other medium had some cheap/free way of experiencing them. Books had libraries and can be bought individually with no other cost, movies can be seen in theaters without needing a VHS/DVD/Blu-ray player, etc. I can't say I know how much licensing fees might be, but it could have keep at least a bit of cash flow. Would still be a bit viable now given that all the casuals moved away from consoles to their phones. I know there were a couple of games like Fruit Ninja and Flappy Bird were converted to try and get some of that, but not enough of an effort was made to capture the wallets of today's kids.

belgium and germany?
not video games, not important. france has more worth than both of them combined

lol, sure buddy

fuck off shlomo

I bet if you looked at her DNA in a microscope, it would look like pic related.

and would probably scream, jump out of petri dish, and skitter across the floor if you stuck a hot wire into the sample

ah forklift simulator will surely be missed! even goddamn russia makes games, theres no excuse for them.

Don't wanna sound like a smartass, but don't talk about what you do not know.

Just because it's big somewhere doesn't mean it's doing good everywhere

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I feel like he worded it like that on purpose, and was making fun of the people saying arcades are still doing great

I must have missed the memo.
These are just a couple chains still operating; local laser-tag places all over the place, especially on the eastern seaboard.

That's almost impressive.

Overcasualization killed the presence of skill games and you can't really do participation awards or give people 10 hour long B-movie cinematic shit on arcade games. Arcade games are meant to challenge you and use the lure of getting good at the game and progressing further in order to entice you to spend more quarters, but today's idiots can't play for shit and aren't interested in being seriously challenged by games. In a way the market moved on. That said I think a good arcade could still sell but it would be difficult to attract today's kids to the place and I'm not sure how easily you can get good and profitable arcade machines nowadays.

Holla Forums shittery aside there is indeed a problem that it's harder to ask people to put a dollar in your arcade than two quarters even if inflation has moved on since the 80s and 90s.

I fucking KNEW IT. Halfchanners have been coming to roost on 8/v/ lately. That's why the posting quality has been going down and resembling 4chan retardation so much lately. This fucker was still on halfchan this year.

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The Carolinas are more disgusting than West Virginia, and that's saying something
Conservative crybaby shitholes with horrible summers

Because the living spaces people have in japan is fucking tiny. You can't fit 8 people into one place. Internet connections and hardware is also expensive, so playing online is balls unless you are making mad dosh.

People go to arcades to play vidya because they can't play optimaly in their homes. The same thing goes for internet-cafés.

Spotted the Charlotte bagger.

This is probably why the Switch is a thing tbh.

You will never be a part of the chosen race, goy.

Because arcades have always been for suckers, if you really think about it realistically. People stopped going to arcades because it's clearly a waste of money when you can just go buy a video game and play it as much as you want to. Also, arcades in America were already inferior to the ones in Japan in the first place.

Regardless, the general experience is to just lose your money immediately. Before you even play most arcade games, you already know that you're not beating that game without spending a shitload of money, whether you credit feed or not.

Paying for something that you will never own is dumb. Paying to win is even dumber and arcade games tend to be just like that.

Hell, games that have no checkpoints practically play themselves if you keep paying more. Worse than mobile games. Just keep paying and wait and you will win eventually.

No challenge at all unless you go for 1ccs, and that's supposed to barely be even possible a lot of the time unless you dedicate you entire life and all of your money to one game. So really, it's all or nothing, and it's not a game anymore, it's a job. A job that you pay to do.

Playing for score is fun, but again, money for nothing. Overall, arcades are mostly useful for shit that you really can't play properly unless you own the machine.

Other than that, just download MAME, or just buy a console, get a good stick and throw away the nostalgia. It's not healthy.

I was depressed. I could have just drowned myself in the ocean.

They're only a "waste of money" to shitters who can't 1cc the games.

GO BACK TO YOUR HUGBOX OF ETERNAL MARXIST RETARDATION!

So you can 1cc everything with no practice?

Sounds completely plausible. Except that it's actually impossible, considering how much shit is thrown at you can you can't possibly avoid just with reflexes.

By the time that you 1cc the average game, you will have spent way more money than it costs to buy a game.

Hell, you can just emulate and play for free. Even better than buying. Not that the dumb good goys can even imagine the possibility of not spending everything that they earn.

that's not a prefix, it's an adjective

t-thanks everyone

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