Originally posted by LoudMusic
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.
But I can't find any new-ish ones. They are all ancient.
