Japan Arcades

Fluffyumpkins · Post by **Fluffyumpkins** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:44 am

http://uk.reuters.com/article/technolog ... a-telco-SP

Very sad. I knew the US had pretty much lost the industry, but not Japanland.

Post by Ho » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:03 am

Harsh. Not terribly surprising, but harsh.

Meanwhile, I'd be happy to make a new home for some of the machines that must be getting liquidated as a result.

Fluffyumpkins · Post by **Fluffyumpkins** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:16 pm

Ho wrote:Harsh. Not terribly surprising, but harsh.

Meanwhile, I'd be happy to make a new home for some of the machines that must be getting liquidated as a result.

I'd be happy to move into said home.

Riot · Post by **Riot** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:42 pm

I will pay $400 a month to live in your basement.

Amp Divorax · Post by **Amp Divorax** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:03 pm

I just got back online for the first time in a while and this is what I see? Well...

http://darthno.ytmnd.com

LikeableRodent · Post by **LikeableRodent** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:02 pm

Yeah, it's pretty sad.

But really, there are still arcades all over the place here, and the good ones usually have plenty of people in them whenever I go.

While in the US arcades tend to rely on ticket redemption games, on this side of the pond it seems that UFO Catchers/Crane Games and Pachinko/Slots probably make up the majority of their income.

Post by Ho » Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:36 pm

LikeableRodent wrote:While in the US arcades tend to rely on ticket redemption games, on this side of the pond it seems that UFO Catchers/Crane Games and Pachinko/Slots probably make up the majority of their income.

So basically just different forms of the same idea? Play a game; get something. People are motivated by rewards--even when the rewards are worthless.