/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8619458
1)That's 1 arcade out of tens of thousands. That's hardly representative of arcades as a whole
2) Arcade culture still thrived until the 6th gen, when consoles were as powerful as arcades and you could get an arcade perfect experience at home. Street Fighter had little to do with the death of arcades, it was the advancement in technology and Moore's Law working in tandem that did it.
3) If anything, fighting games and the FGC are the last relic of arcade culture. Yeah, now major tournaments are basically glorified promotional for vidya corporations and their new games (even though you could kinda argue that has always been the case, but it's more blatant now), but there are still local scenes across the US that preserved the arcade mentality of "gittin' gud by constant practice", practiving combos and the banter you'd hear in arcades. If anything, fighting games are a relic from the heyday of the arcades that managed to transition to consoles successfully and still preserve that culture in the communities that formed around them. Shit, this isn't even a US thing. This shit is true in Japan (where it is very much alive. Check out a-cho, 3RD STRIKE and TheShend on youtube), Latin America and anywhere else SNK, Sega (to some extent), Capcom and Namco left their marks