Arcades staged a mini-comeback in the mid to late 90s, because of fighting games. Home consoles offered arcade perfect translations of those same games, but peo

Arcades staged a mini-comeback in the mid to late 90s, because of fighting games. Home consoles offered arcade perfect translations of those same games, but people came in droves. Online play is probably what killed it off again. I think when there's a reason for people to show up somewhere to play games, they will.