So now that Arcades in nipland are kill, are hipster Barcades the only hope of preserving retro cabinets?
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So now that Arcades in nipland are kill, are hipster Barcades the only hope of preserving retro cabi...
MAME
Eww
Hipster barcades don't even have authentic cabs
Depends where you go, but the ones in LA are pretty legit.
I'm so fricking sick of playing 80s and 90s arcade games on LCD screens. The Punch Out at my local barcade is LCD and they never bothered to turn the fricking sound on.
If you owned a barcade would you want to waste the limited supplies of crt's wearing them out each day.
Probably, I play one when I see one. My cinema just rid of the small number arcades over a year ago. I was able to play sega rally 2 with glitched graphics. I went to big cinema and they had ferrari f355 and daytona 2, I was surprised how well f355 held up since I consider gran turismo 4 to have really poor physics these days.
I mainly play them if I see them since it could be the last time I play one.
LCD is disgusting
They do in NY
>Hipster barcades don't even have authentic cabs
The one in Philly does. Though they shifted focus to more pinball machines and I kind of hate it. They had some good machines before like Strider and Tron.
They do in SF.
Arcades are an idea from 40 years ago. They should die.
We all know why American arcades died, but what killed them in Japan?
Covid and real estate shortage.
Pretty much, also financial issues with SEGA itself
COVID in japan is a fricking shitshow. Nothing can be done anywhere, and in no way can any buiness operate. The people there aren't conservative, they're zenservative, as doing nothing and complaining about action is the solution to everything. It's where the idea for anti-spiral came from in Gurren Lagann.
I have imported from Japan my whole adult life and need a watch serviced, but everything is shut down STILL except for proxies that can get stuff from vendors and ship it fedex WHICH IS NOT EMS.
Things will get better Ken-sama. Dattebayo!
You are a LARP. This is blatantly untrue aside from shipping issues which are mostly resolved now.
Only America had shipping issues. Shouldn't have been born in a third-world country
I live in Japan and you're fricking moronic. A handful of small businesses closed permanently but most of the ones who "closed" were just temporary. One of the chicken-specialty izakaya in my neighbourhood used covid as an opportunity to do renovations, smart as frick as they likely lost minimal business with that timing and the place looks fresh as frick now with a brand new wooden interior instead of the smoke and grease-stained old one.
COVAIDS.
>We all know why American arcades died
You homosexuals are ALWAYS getting this 100% wrong.
There's still plenty of arcades over there, even weird little mom-and-pop hole in the wall ones, thing is it's almost all NESiCAxLive stuff nowadays so if you go into one, you've pretty much seen the lineup in all the others
So weird that they're lumping GiGo with the other arcades that closed due to low sales. There's some weird thing with Japanese building renting that a company can only stay so many years in a building and the GiGo reached that limit and had to shut down, its completely unrelated to Covid.
Shame though, was the best place to chill in 'bukuro.
>are hipster Barcades the only hope of preserving retro cabinets?
not long-term, that's for sure.
There were almost no retro cabinets in those big Sega arcades. I've been to almost all of them in Tokyo and they were mostly moronic card games and betting games. There always was a classic games floor, but there only were a few popular machines that everyone's played a million times before. Nothing of value was lost when these were closed. Those big arcades were a disappointment like you wouldn't believe.
I'm just glad I had enough time to visit everything of importance in Akihabara. First time I traveled to Japan was in 1998. Last time 2018.
good for you autismo
Get on my level, poor kid.
galloping ghost arcade
They "preserve" them in the sense that they're there, but Galloping Ghost is too ambitious for their own good and can't keep the machines with unique control systems (aka the ones you can't play on MAME) working most of the time.
Read on twitter that that one SEGA Arcade in particular closed because the new landlord wants to do something with it and they might open a new location to replace it in the future since it was still racking money in.
Don't get me wrong, arcades are pretty fricked as we're on month uhhh 22? of no in-person fighting game tournaments which are a great way for them to get cash every week. I just hope GAME Newton doesn't die since I do want to go there one day.