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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bowflex" data-source="post: 57313" data-attributes="member: 24"><p>Multiplayer is a big issue too.  Even though you could get a very exacting port of an arcade game on a home console, you were limited in who you could game with.  Can't just have people over whenever you want if you live with your parents.  But you could meet at an arcade.  Now you just go and play over the internet.  Arcades did get filled up with the fighting games and NEO-GEO games but there were the unique experiences that can't really be duplicated in the same way at home.  Any driving games with the giant sit down cabinets, the virtua skiing or jetski, boxing, and DDR.  Honestly without those gimmicky games, arcades would have been killed off 3-5 years earlier.  The biggest thing nowadays is the retro games that you can find at the few arcades still around.  Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor has managed to stay popular by having classic arcade games, pinball tables and air hockey/foosball tables.  Any other arcade around is typically all about redemption tickets (Dave N Busters, Gameworks, etc.).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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