At the arcade down somewhere here, there's a pretty cool racing game. It features the Viper GTS-R and McLaren F1 GT-R, it has pedals, wheel and shifter with a nice seat. It's a weird game but it's pretty fun. $0.50 per race.
I'm to old to play in the arcades. But when I was young, witch was in the time of pong, I played a Tank Game (don't remember the name). It was some white squares hunting some other white squares, firing some white squares. There also were some white squares to hide behind. Great fun at the time, and the gameplay is still up to date.
I haven't been in an arcade, with the exception of my 11 year old niece's birthday, in about 20 years.
Back "in the day" it was games like:
Zaxxon
Tempest
Warlords
Gauntlet
Asteroids
Space Invaders
Pac-man and Lady Pac-man.
And a couple of racing games I can't recall the names of.
I was really into Tempest, It was so "simple" by todays standards, but very addictive.
I also had a thing for 3-D Tetris. I was never very good at it, but I did enjoy it.
Me and a friend played that pretty much all the way on the ferry form France to England. We used loads of money, our arms ached, we nearly broke it by trying to reload by jabbing the gun in the air and some snotty nose kids insisted they could get further than us, the dropped a 5er in all at once...and still couldn't.
And this race game where you turn the wheel and the seat goes in the oposite direction.
That friend wouldn't be me would it? . I just discovered an Initial D machine tucked away in the corner or Pembrokeshire so I had a couple of goes and really enjoyed it. I normally pile money into the House of The Dead, Time Crisis and most racing games (just to beat ExigeExcel )
The arcades near me are all disapearing. I guess that's because no one uses them much anymore, now that consoles are so rediculously cheap and have equal, or in some cases, better performance. The money they put into an arcade unit is obsurd.
One way they attempted to combat that is by putting several games into the same unit NeoGeo seemed to be successful with that. The problem then becomes that people don't like to play games alone. They made their unites four player. Even so they weren't networked together and there were usually only one or two of them in an arcade.
What would make an arcade successful today would be to have several stand up units that could play 10 or 15 different games and have 20 to 30 of these units all networked together. That way you could go to any available unit and play any game with as many people as possible. Next would be to have a huge internet connection with different arcades all connected together. That way there will always be a group of people together playing the game when you want to join.
I could make so much money if I only had the money to start with.
. I just discovered an Initial D machine tucked away in the corner or Pembrokeshire so I had a couple of goes and really enjoyed it. I normally pile money into the House of The Dead, Time Crisis and most racing games (just to beat ExigeExcel 
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