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>When arcade cabinets were 4x the size of your TV at home and no game was anywhere near as impressive graphically. Arcades were loud and colorful, noisy and lively. Maybe the late 80s early 90s especially. Back when you could play pinball and street fighter and sneak a beer.
I would say this is a huge point of Arcades was that they were also Hardware wise extremely powerful and could do things Consoles could not do and were able to output and do amazing tricks.
>I don't see the point now in recreating an arcade in your house or even going to your local barcade.
I agree and disagree. I agree there is no point in recreating an Arcade at your place especially when Emulation Frontends are getting better and even MAME is starting to figure out good UI for those who are kind of tech illiterate. But I do see uses in terms of recreating the Arcade in modern day because it creates a hangout spot for everyone to talk to others and chat and eat together. The problem I think is when they just do it too much by the numbers and do not innovate ways to make people go to the Arcades or Barcades and are very lazy in picking the games to visit these places. For example in Japan the Arcade scene is still alive even if it's kind of fading here and there. They at least have the understanding to connect Gacha and their newly built Arcades to scan Gacha through a QR Code and to be able to get people to socialize at the Arcades.
https://youtu.be/P8m0q3lTOW8

Granted it's not perfect but I think we need Barcades to rethink everything to be more of the modern day than just a vintage past time. Sure you can have older Arcades and even some recent ones. But perhaps connecting Gacha to Arcades would be a good idea especially Live Service ones. Again Arcade places I think need to try and integrate more Arcade, with Lounges and Bar stuff on the side, than just Bar and an Arcade area. These things work with big spectacles not something small and casual unless you are not like that.

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>only has boomer pinball with a lone unresponsive SF2 cab…