To my knowledge, it is impossible to sit on the toilet and get AIDS. Unless you’re getting a blowjob from somebody with AIDS while you’re sitting on the toilet.
Anyway, maybe it’s just me, but the kind of grungy atmosphere is one of the things I like about arcades. The cigarette smoke, the unfinished ceiling, the dim lighting… takes me back.
LOL yea this thread is like Friday the 13th movies they just wont stop making the same shit over and over.
Yes after you’ve been here long enough you will see threads annually repeat themselfs, the most recurring ones are BruceLee vs Random MMA bum, the good old SF4 is comming out, and this thread right here.
Ive commented on this topic too many times to go into detail again but to put it short arcades were a fad of the 80s n 90s you can take alook at other things from that time that also died and they anit comming back either.
You know, to this day I have never played FPS and these online RPG games like Warcraft and shit!!! Fighting games and racing games are my cup of tea.
Not just that arcade machines are huge and a pain in the ass to move, consoles are small and cost less.
I prefer to play online then play in arcades over here in japan,
basically because I’m just a casual player and I don’t really enjoy paying 100yen a game to get my ass raped by a guy glued to the machine for the last 9 years
arcades discriminate against the casual gamer, which is why I can’t be bothered with them anymore, its cheaper to get raped online which is what I plan to do when vf5 hits the 360 over here
I’m sure the western online fps playing crowd feels the same. Playing counterstrike all day long online doesn’t cost you anything, other then your social life that is
Let me clarify: I agree and know that you get all sorts of people in Starbucks, and they certainly don’t stop anyone who has dollar coming in. What I was trying to say is that the formula the business grew successful on is attracting urban professionals in cities. When a business starts it’s typical to have a ‘model customer’, a fictitious representation of who the target demographic is. In Starbuck’s case it’s a busy professional in between commitments taking a time out, and this is the environment they built to attract. Now, it’s a hugely successful place with, as you say, all sorts of people in there, but the formula remains somewhere suitable for a businessman/woman to have a coffee and a few minutes of peace. Another example is Nike- all sorts of people where Nike shoes, but in a business class we had, it was demonstrated that Nikes ‘model customer’ when designing and promoting new sneakers was ‘a materialistic young black man who likes Sports and music’.
Anyway, way off topic now. I just wanted to point out that loud violent games in Starbucks just wouldn’t happen.
^^^^Sorry to ask you again, because I didn’t think you answer this before, but do you agree with what’s said on your sig.?
Then why don’t they just make arcade boards smaller then?
way off topic, but did anyone else have that one street sharks toy, the one that looked like an arcade cabinet and it unfolded into an awesome tank/jet?
that thing kicked ass.
I think it’s the cabinet that’s heavy and cumbersome, not the actual board itself (although those aren’t exactly PSP sized either).
Then why the need for that big ass cabinet? Why not just have them as big as the 360 kiosks?
I think that’s the problem with the Arcades, the cabinets haven’t changed their look since the 80’s.
Rob2_0
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the problem there is elbow room
you need space for up to six buttons and you dont want to be bumping elbos while playing
360 kiosks are diff cause of controllers
Oroman
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I miss that place, that place was so godlike :sad: cries on pillow.
Vynce
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It’s about time someone made a thread like this.
…Or posted a reply like this.
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I think my idea is still the best. A taco shop with arcade machines will prosper and thrive. For example, a good taco truck brings in $1k a day in cash. No need to worry about making money off cabs.
Then why not just make the elbow room for the controller only while just having a small stand on the bottom to hold the board and have a TV attached to a spine. Basically, the 360 kiosks only put two arcade sticks where the controller is suppose to be, while leaving all the extra space where the giant box should be empty with just a TV.
Invest we must!
It will. Just make sure that the machines are clean (sticks covered with sour cream/salsa are disgusting). Also it will not hurt to have a Neo Geo cab. Just make it mostly a takeout place but with some tables and maybe 4-5 arcade cabinets.
Rob2_0
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seriously you should do that
all jokes aside buy a Mexican restaurant and put some machines in that bitch
if i knew you ( and had some $) i would seriously go into business with you.
Do it! Do it! You could call it “Tacade”!
Thats a good Q: go email Capcom for me and find out.
Americans are ‘lazy.’ All arcades need to do here in the States is implement
chairs/stools (and comfortable ones at that) to the stand up cabinets that
they’re playing at and I BET YOU that they’d get played more. Doesn’t
matter what the game is.
I’ve thought this for ages now since I already know and have seen arcade
after arcade that has chairs/stools for their fighting games like over in
Japan.
I am also tired of walking into what we have left as our arcades here in
Washington State and seeing hardly ANY good fighters or shooters or
whatever and everything else is these stupid put-more-coins-in-this- tray
to see if you can push more coins out-games, and ticket-spewing
games, ect.
If I had the money—I would open up my own arcade, and it’d blow
Seattle’s GameWorks right outta the effin’ water…
~K.
