>For the second quote you go off on a tangent about costs. Tanjent? That's funny. I was responding directly to your citing cost as a factor for arcades dying:

>For the second quote you go off on a tangent about costs. Tanjent? That's funny. I was responding directly to your citing cost as a factor for arcades dying: >But the arcades started dying when somebody had the silly idea that people wanted to play cockpit games or big interactive games for more than double the price. It's right there. >There's no way someone can tell me that a classic stand up machine with a PC in the cabinet costs as much to buy/maintain as those huge behemoth cockpit games. These new machines may have been an attempt to counter consoles since most people will not put a race car cockpit game in their home, but for the most part were boring. Who wants to rock a fake horse forwards and backwards in a crappy rendition of a horse race? If this were true, then we would have arcades with lower end, more cost efficient games instead of the ones you're pointing out. But we don't. I submit that it isn't because every single former arcade owner individually misjudged the market and stocked the wrong machines in their retail space. >If the industry, in the US for me, had stayed away from that nonsense then I would have gladly gone to the arcade despite having a nice console at home. On this, I also humbly submit that you are in the extreme minority.