>Walk into new place called Mr. Biggs
>Plenty of normal stuff, go karts and whatnot
>Small arcade, not very many games
>Virtual Reality Mechassault
>With up to 16 players
>Sit in a pod and play
>End up playing it all day
>Owners notice
>Allowed to play for free because my shenanigans onscreen brought people in to play
>Place goes under
>They sell each individual pod
>Ask how much it would cost to just buy all of the pods, figure I could do something fun with them for some profit
>Owner pulls me aside
>Apparently most of the pods are being trashed because some of them don't work as intended, and the cost to repair them would more substantial
>mfw I sit outside and watch them drag the pods away
That's when social gaming died in my heart. I haven't been able to truly enjoy an arcade since then, even when I went to the Sega Arcade in michigan, something just wasn't right. People didn't want to play together.