[Arcade] Do Arcades still exist?

Every arcade here has slowly died out. You'll only find the odd ancient machine here and there in the weirdest places like a Neogeo cabinet at a game store on the outskirts of town, or a Pacman machine in an obscure little pizza place. Even our arcade at school has become totally meaningless. When I first entered uni, it had Capcom vs. Snk Chaos (fairly newish), DDR, Guitarfreaks, and Drummania. Those are all gome, and two weeks ago DDR vanished for some reason (yes, even DDR). Now we have shit machines: Varth, Virtua Tennis, KoF 2001, Tekken Tag Tournament, some other game as old as Varth. All of them are broken in one way or another!

I think maybe the maintenance costs were a large part of the problem. One, for an arcade to be constantly fresh you'd have to make sure you have the newest or at least relatively new games. Two, people are silly and abuse the machines which ends somehow ends up with broken parts (eg. broken hihat in drummania, missing buttons on guitarfreaks). Three, the upkeep costs must be massive, or the selling price was too tempting for the arcade owners not to sell. I know I would have wasted 8 months worth of loonies on Drummania if they had kept it there, but they just took it out for some reason.

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