I don't think that kid has ever been to an arcade. They already tried everything he talked about.
For your average kid in the USA during the 80's, popping a quarter ($.25) into an arcade game ($.50 or more for the more fancy games) bought you anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes of gameplay depending on how good you were at the game.
If you had $5 of pocket money to spend, you're done within half an hour. Probably took you that long or longer to even get to the arcade. If your family owned any kind of gaming console or computer at home, it was even less worth your time and money.
The fancy cabinets with steering wheels, pedals, light guns, or motion were cool, but you're dropping $1-2 bucks for a single race. Imagine every time you played a race on Forza or Gran Turismo, it would charge you $1-2. How long would you really keep playing?
I remember how often the cabinets would be broken or fucked up. Sticks wouldn't always work in every direction, buttons wouldn't work, light guns would be out of order etc. And you wouldn't know that a key button was broken until AFTER you dropped your coins.
Then there were the people problems. Anti-social behavior and niggers weren't as bad in the 80's in a lot of places as they are now. If there was a popular game, such as Mortal Kombat in the early 90's, there's be a bunch of people crowded around it, and you'd have to wait a while for a chance to get your ass kicked by the sweat who's already pumped $30 into it that day. For modern kids, imagine having to wait in a queue to login to Fortnite, and then having to pay $.25 per minute to play it.
After the Playstation 1 came out, the only time I ever touched an arcade game again, was in Australia playing one of the Time Crisis lightgun machines, or that sniper game that had the sniper rifle lightgun. And that fucking shit cost $2 per play. (about $1 US at the time)
Arcades died because the mainstreaming of home consoles and PCs made it less worth the time and money to go to the arcades. It's similar to how streaming and home theatres are hurting cinemas and TV.
AngryWhiteKeyboardWarrior 0 points 2.6 years ago
I don't think that kid has ever been to an arcade. They already tried everything he talked about.
For your average kid in the USA during the 80's, popping a quarter ($.25) into an arcade game ($.50 or more for the more fancy games) bought you anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes of gameplay depending on how good you were at the game.
If you had $5 of pocket money to spend, you're done within half an hour. Probably took you that long or longer to even get to the arcade. If your family owned any kind of gaming console or computer at home, it was even less worth your time and money.
The fancy cabinets with steering wheels, pedals, light guns, or motion were cool, but you're dropping $1-2 bucks for a single race. Imagine every time you played a race on Forza or Gran Turismo, it would charge you $1-2. How long would you really keep playing?
I remember how often the cabinets would be broken or fucked up. Sticks wouldn't always work in every direction, buttons wouldn't work, light guns would be out of order etc. And you wouldn't know that a key button was broken until AFTER you dropped your coins.
Then there were the people problems. Anti-social behavior and niggers weren't as bad in the 80's in a lot of places as they are now. If there was a popular game, such as Mortal Kombat in the early 90's, there's be a bunch of people crowded around it, and you'd have to wait a while for a chance to get your ass kicked by the sweat who's already pumped $30 into it that day. For modern kids, imagine having to wait in a queue to login to Fortnite, and then having to pay $.25 per minute to play it.
After the Playstation 1 came out, the only time I ever touched an arcade game again, was in Australia playing one of the Time Crisis lightgun machines, or that sniper game that had the sniper rifle lightgun. And that fucking shit cost $2 per play. (about $1 US at the time)
Arcades died because the mainstreaming of home consoles and PCs made it less worth the time and money to go to the arcades. It's similar to how streaming and home theatres are hurting cinemas and TV.