I find it odd to see so many people here who didn't know Pokemon Go was still "a thing" because they dropped off the fad a month after launch. To be fair, Poke

I find it odd to see so many people here who didn't know Pokemon Go was still "a thing" because they dropped off the fad a month after launch. To be fair, Pokemon Go is really only balanced for play in dense urban centers, which excludes a lot of Americans who thought the game was just an AR gimmick. It wasn't, and there's a lot of people who play it even if they live in suburbia. But that doesn't mean the game died, it just means it's niche. More generally I'm kinda sick of game genres that used to be mainstream being treated as dead fads. A lot of stuff is way more evergreen than people give it credit for, you just need to find a balance of people who are willing to keep playing. And while I'm riding this train... - Guitar games never actually died out. Harmonix actually made a Rock Band 4 that's still getting DLC, and there's a big community around Clone Hero. If you don't feel like filling your home with plastic rhythm game controllers again[0], your local Dave & Busters probably also has a GH Arcade cabinet[1]. - Nintendo still releases new amiibo! I don't even know if they've come up with anything more compelling than just "tap figure to get bonus items" or "weird kind of Smash CPU that you have to level up" though. - Konami never stopped making DDR. It's just way harder to actually find a DDR cabinet in the US due to #FucKonami's asinine licensing policies[1]. If you don't have one in your city[2] there's probably at least someone running a StepManiaX or Pump It Up cab. - Tamagotchi is still a thing. Hell, Bandai actually makes way more of them now, because they realized they could sell a lot of licensed tie-in Tamas. [0] We don't talk about Guitar Hero Live. [1] I'm not mentioning Gitadora/Guitar Freaks for the same reason why DDR is a pain in the ass to find in the US. [2] e-Amusement means cabs are region-locked, won't boot unless they're online, and operators need to pay a revshare to Konami. Furthermore they will only sell cabs to D&B and Round1. This means a lot of arcades just don't have new Konami games. In the past, this didn't matter because a lot of smaller US arcade operators were just buying import cabs. This is actually illegal, but it gave DDR a lot more street presence here than Konami would have otherwise gotten. [3] https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcades.php https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcades.php