How would you make Arcades mainstream again?

[Kamikaze Revy]

Serve decent food
Hold tournaments
Have live performances
Arcades can come back but not in the traditional game only setting.
You have to curate experiences around them. Create a reason for it to be the spot to be at regularly.

 

[SymbolicOne09]

Bar/food
Laser tag/playpin for kids
Mame arcade machines with all the games.
Some new experience arcade type game

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Serve decent food
Hold tournaments
Have live performances
Arcades can come back but not in the traditional game only setting.
You have to curate experiences around them. Create a reason for it to be the spot to be at regularly.

Or like @OnlyFrans said. Maybe just offer peep shows? They both use quarters

 

[Fctftl]

Or like @OnlyFrans said. Maybe just offer peep shows? They both use quarters

dudes already paying for bra and panty pics on OnlyFans( )

combine live nekkid women with vidya games, that's a cash cow right there.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Barcades is the move.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

They are mainstream they’re called Dave and Busters

 

[Rekkapryde]

i forgot, there is another one in AZ called 'the hot chick' that has upper-middle class women, fried chicken, old games/pinball, and celebrity appearances


the epitome of a no frills arcade that is succeeding is probably galloping ghost in chicago

WHITE WIMMIN AND FRIED CHICKEN!!!!!

@portcityplaya @Nicole0416_718_212_646NYC @Malcolmxxx_23

 

[UpNext]

You've got to create an experience for upper middle class millennial coworkers to regularly hang out and network in with your games serving as ice breakers and distractions from any awkward silences and you have to put it in a convenient high traffic location. And the games HAVE TO BE FREE.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

WHITE WIMMIN AND FRIED CHICKEN!!!!!

@portcityplaya @Nicole0416_718_212_646NYC @Malcolmxxx_23

Bro u don’t want to beef nicoellet

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

1st of all I wouldn't even bother.

 

[darealvelle]

Arcade1up brung the arcade to the crib.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

They are mainstream they’re called Dave and Busters

Those aren't traditional arcades.
We need:
Street Fighter
Tekken
Mortal Kombat
Marvel Vs Capcom
Killer Instinct
Soul Calibur
X-Men
Dark Stalkers
King Of Fighters
Metal Slug
Samurai Showdown
Time Crisis
Die Hard

I feel like if someone brought those cabinets back into a Dave and Busters type venue, or even better yet, a more modern venue with live entertainment and they focused on creating tournaments and different events they would make a killing. All the stuff we grew up loving that failed due to consoles dominating the marketing could easily come back if you had the right person running the business and creating experiences/events. Arcade owners dropped the ball royally. They could have survived if they treated their arcades like an actual entertainment venue instead of a room with video games. The social aspect is never going to go away.

 

[Allen Poe]

Here is what works at Gameworks in Seattle:

• A sizable bar and restaurant
• Mostly racing cabinets, fighting games, and shoot em up / light gun games. Those are unique arcade experiences you can't replicate at home
• An entire area for LAN play and pc gaming
• Space for events / groups
• Kid games

For the record there are like 5-10 arcades here and they are all bar attached, and the others are targeted to young adults mostly

That's exactly how Gameworks was out here in Vegas, plus they had a bowling alley as well. And they ended up shutting down.

 

[O.Red]

Those aren't traditional arcades.
We need:
Street Fighter
Tekken
Mortal Kombat
Marvel Vs Capcom
Killer Instinct
Soul Calibur
X-Men
Dark Stalkers
King Of Fighters
Metal Slug
Samurai Showdown
Time Crisis
Die Hard

I feel like if someone brought those cabinets back into a Dave and Busters type venue, or even better yet, a more modern venue with live entertainment and they focused on creating tournaments and different events they would make a killing. All the stuff we grew up loving that failed due to consoles dominating the marketing could easily come back if you had the right person running the business and creating experiences/events. Arcade owners dropped the ball royally. They could have survived if they treated their arcades like an actual entertainment venue instead of a room with video games. The social aspect is never going to go away.

I'm a fighting game player. Our scene made a deal to run tournaments in Dave and Busters a decade ago

After 3 weeks they kicked us out that bytch .

My posts in this thread are from firsthand experience of all this and I know that fighting game players don't spend money breh. Dave and Busters is not missing KOF or Samurai Showdown cabinets

There may be a way to have a fighting game arcade in 2022, but that shyt has proven to be overwhelmingly difficult


Dave and Busters as it stands now is a family and fun/date spot. Replace everything in there with fighting games and that shyt will close in a month

 

[MisterMajesty]

tbf to dude, hes obviously a Yun/Yang player