Cuz all the new shyt started coming to consoles.Before you had to go to the arcade to play the quality shyt.Once the fire was on consoles it was a wrap.
why did arcade gaming die out in america??
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cole phelps
Superstar
more Japanese arcade games
Playing games on MAME, it's crazy how you can enter the game's service mode and see how high the difficulty is cranked by defaultDon't forget Ed Boon programming the Mortal Kombat series AI to suck as many quarters from you as possible.
I remember reading/watching on an interview that Mortal Kombat 3/Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was programmed to make you lose one match by default on one run
Aint hard at all to switch either
feelosofer
#ninergang
In 99 when the Dreamcast could pump out Arcade Perfect ports with ease and not to mention a lot of games were dropping on NAOMI boards (which were arcade boards w Dreamcast guts. Capcom vs SNK 2) and online started getting big, It basically became what's the point anymore
Arcade game makers were starting to think their shyt didn't stink after a while (who else remembers Virtual Fighter 3 being a dollar to play in 1997). Then when the aforementioned happened with consoles catching up to arcades and they were left in the dust
This particularly with the Dreamcast. Like the release of that system and my favorite arcade closing down go hand in hand.
NZA
LOL
did anybody own the neo geo?
feelosofer
#ninergang
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
putting your quarters up next to the screenI miss the arcade environment, though ...
There's nothing like feeding off people's reactions when you're whooping ass or sending someone away with their tail tucked between their legs
And all the people crowding around the machine trying to see what's happening
i got next
crazy how dreamcast flopped, it was one of my favorite consoles.
Dreamcast didn't flop. When people were able to successfully burn their games that was the end of their chapter.
DC was so dope
beenz
Rap Guerilla
like others have said, console gaming crushed arcade gaming. I grew up in the era of playing arcade games as well. there used to be a pizza hut that had the first mortal kombat when it dropped that I'd go and play on the regular. hell, the cabinet was kinda broke, so cats would reach their hand in there and add free credits and what not. got to the point where the manager would kick us out cuz we'd play there all day with little to no money 
there was also a bowling alley on that same block that had arcade games I'd play regularly like simpons, MK2, and the TMNT joint . however, both of those places have been torn down, and replaced by a wack strip mall. and this happened at least 10 years ago.
it was around this time in the early 90's where consoles started catching up to arcade games. the first MK wasn't nearly as good as the arcade, but once MK2 dropped and the games on playstation started coming out with the same quality as their arcade counterparts, it was a wrap. wasn't gonna spend all my little hard earned money at an arcade when I can play shyt for free at home after copping the game.
there was also a bowling alley on that same block that had arcade games I'd play regularly like simpons, MK2, and the TMNT joint . however, both of those places have been torn down, and replaced by a wack strip mall. and this happened at least 10 years ago.
it was around this time in the early 90's where consoles started catching up to arcade games. the first MK wasn't nearly as good as the arcade, but once MK2 dropped and the games on playstation started coming out with the same quality as their arcade counterparts, it was a wrap. wasn't gonna spend all my little hard earned money at an arcade when I can play shyt for free at home after copping the game.
nikkas talking about the Dreamcast kill the arcades. 
How old are y'all nikkas?
The Sega Genesis is what kill the arcades back in the early 90's. Every arcade game became playable on a home console.
The arcades was already completely dead
by the time the Dreamcast came out in 1999.
How old are y'all nikkas?The Sega Genesis is what kill the arcades back in the early 90's. Every arcade game became playable on a home console.
The arcades was already completely dead
by the time the Dreamcast came out in 1999.
I still play 2 to this day
Say breh, you remember fighting the referee in ss2
But he was hard as a mufukka
KevCo
Bond's gun spoke once....
Birthday partys at the arcades.......damn i miss them shyts....my fav type of arcade games (those T2 shooter types) dont translate well into home consoles...
I learned a long time agoSay breh, you remember fighting the referee in ss2
But he was hard as a mufukka
