Comments on: Sega AM2 boss: Arcade market outside Japan is “practically dead”

By: Retroid

Retroid — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:24:49 +0000

If I had a nice lottery win I’d open up a gaming bar; sofas and seats with nice screens for people to play team games, other machines for solo stuff.

Last time I went to Blackpool it was bloody depressing… place used to be great for arcades but it was mostly fruit machines and the like. Ugh.

By: Esha

Esha — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:02:14 +0000

That’s the thing, isn’t it? One can either stand around in a smoky atmosphere, uncomfortable, and wrestling with a form of control they’re not used to anymore… or they can sit at home on their comfortable couch, laze around and play games on their nifty HD TV.

I’m actually surprised though that something else hasn’t sprung up in its place, some sort of gaming club phenomenon for console gamers. Like nightly LAN parties, but with couches and big, shiny TVs and subscription-based entry.

Personally, I’d drop a few quid a month to have a local place that has a number of absolutely humongous HD TVs which I could play LittleBigPlanet on with some of the people I know. That’d be nifty.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:57:09 +0000

He’s right – Most arcades are sad sorry places now. Our local street fair is in town at the mo and trawling through the arcades last night was a depressing state of affairs with mostly old and mostly really broken old cabinets nestling amongst the massive variety of shitty fruit machines and grab prize cabinets.

Still, who needs arcades when you’ve got decent machines at home now.