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This essay clearly explains the appeal of arcades: http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/ http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/ "Unfair" arcade
by mrob 11y ago
This essay clearly explains the appeal of arcades:
http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/ http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/
"Unfair" arcade games are very rare. I'm nowhere near as skilled as the Chinese gamers in the article, but I have a few 1CCs and I've enjoyed competing for local high scores. Arcade games strongly reward skill, and the arcade setting has a competitive atmosphere you can't replicate at home. I'll certainly miss arcades if they die out completely.
- stephengillie 11y agoHaving played the same games for console and arcade, they were definitely less fair in arcades. Some games had 2-3 times as many pitfalls and other failure conditions to avoid as their console version. Unfairness was a business model. This kind of rose-colored article underscores this concept - it was said about people who were trying to remake Starsiege:Tribes in the late 2000s: "They don't want Tribes back; they want 1999 back." For some inexplicable reason, everyone wants to return to their childhood.