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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robotronjohn77" data-source="post: 55841" data-attributes="member: 1230">A lot of things drove the decline of the arcades. Saturation was a big problem. A shift in the mindset of the American population. The home console industry took a huge bite from arcades income as well.  Tim Arnold said it well. People used to stay home to eat and they went out for entertainment.  Now we go out to eat now and stay home for entertainment. It used to be the arcades drove the innovation of the games and gaming technology. Now its changed and all the innovation emerges from the home markets... If the decline of the arcades were due to controllable problems we would still have them. The decline was a multi faceted problem and there is no way we will ever recapture what we had pre 90s... even Japan which enjoyed a longer run of arcades than we did has seen a huge decline and are near extinction there as well.  Sad but true....</blockquote>

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