I miss Arcades so much...

7 months ago · 👍 cosmo, chirale, jsreed5, director

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@nexy that's a crazy coincidence! The bar I'm talking about is called Arcade Club Social, definitely worth a visit.

Long live fichines! · 7 months ago

@lufte Im actually from argentina, yes! here are some arcade bars in the capital, but they are prety away of my town haha · 7 months ago

Arcade bars are pretty popular these days. I visited one last month in Buenos Aires and it was absolutely lovely, both the general vibe and the machines themselves.

Also, I maintain a website about old and current arcades in my country:

https://maquinitas.uy/

It's in Spanish but it should be easy to navigate nevertheless. I particularly like these two pictures I was able to get from a couple of places back in their good days:

https://maquinitas.uy/foto/baltimore/20081205/#foto

https://maquinitas.uy/foto/stop-atracciones/facebook-1/#foto

Maquinita translates literally to "little machine", that's what we called them here :) · 7 months ago

@nexy Music games also have a strong culture, since they're still popular in Japan. One of the strongest modern arcade communities I see, outside of retro machines, is music games like DanceDance Revolution, Pump It Up, or beatmania IIDX. · 7 months ago

@jsreed5 yeah, Thats it!

the only genre who continue having a arcade culture are the shmups, still the 1cc and the score are the goals for thouse genres.

Beat em' ups also can be? but much less. · 7 months ago

There are still plenty of arcades in the US. What I miss is arcade culture. I didn't experience the golden age of arcades in the 1980s, but even in the '90s and early '00s, there was still a culture of leaderboards, tournaments, and even machine etiquette. Kids today are deliberately rough with machines, don't care if they're distracting other players, cut in line, and steal credits if they're left unattended. At the same time, most arcade games today no longer use the thrill of the challenge as their appeal: they rely on redemption, either in the form of tickets or prizes. An increasing number are rigged in some way too. There's no focus on community anymore. · 7 months ago

I don't miss how broken they always were. There was nothing worse than spending one of your precious few quarters only to find out you just paid to play Street Fighter on a machine that had no RIGHT or UP. · 7 months ago

@cosmo haha, no i dont have it, and if I want something to look like an arcade, I will make a real one with a MVS and such. but I dont have any money anyway.

At least one or two arcades still exist in my contry, but they are like 3 hours of travel away.

I go there one time every some months, but I remember the old days where I have an arcade in front of the station of my town at all...

Nostalgia talking · 7 months ago

I mean you could buy some raspberry pis and cheap monitors and build a few cabinets! If you have a thousand dollars to blow on that. And like, most of the space in a living room. · 7 months ago