/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7860690
>Arcades disappeared when consoles became more prevalent and "home gaming" was so much more easier and popular.

Before everyone writes this guy off and starts telling stories of how lots of arcades survived until very recently or still to this day, you need to realize that arcade owners of the 1980s and 90s fucking hated home consoles because they were eating up their market like popcorn shrimp.
I knew one owner of what was THE largest arcade floor space on the west coast and it was no joke, he positively had a fiery hatred for a SEGA Genesis or a Super Nintendo.
He could never understand that once people got a Genesis/Mega Drive, either they never noticed the difference between it and the arcade version, or stopped caring because finally home gaming looked like the arcade and you could relax with friends at home or with family and not have to deal with sticky floors, punks, broken coin mechanisms and other bullshit that ran its course years before.
Don't get me wrong, arcades full of people of all colors having fun was based as fuck, but even that naturally got phased out and was done by just 1990. Heck, even by '89 things were starting to look bad that way.
Arcades were a fad, still are, but they're never going to be like they were in the 70s and 80s ever again.
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