suicidegirls.com — Wil Wheaton goes into discussion about arcades, the impact of arcades on a generation, the emergence of consoles and and what the decline in arcades may mean to those that spent all their hard earned allowance on those machines.
Feb 8, 2007 View in Crawl 4
carrotflowerFeb 9, 2007
Hmmm,Anyone think it's a coincidence that the most recent Retronauts podcast from 1Up.com is an hour long discussion about the death of the arcade?Good job Wil
burbsFeb 9, 2007Submitter
Yeah, I can't imagine playing pinball any other way, it sure was the "in" thing at the time, huh?
froz3ntearFeb 9, 2007
Arcades here in norcal have been steadily dying... But I still appreciate arcades... How else do you practice competitive 3rd Strike, Tekken 5, MVC2, CVS2, and Guilty Gear? Arcades provide a safe public place where people of every skill level can gather and test each other.I play Smash Brother's Melee competitively and it is so hard to get into the competitive scene. You have to travel to complete stranger's houses to ever get practice with anyone decent. The article does make some great points about how arcade's being real places forces you to have respect... after every Initial D race at the arcade, You will either hear both players say "good game" "close race" and even shake hands. Compared to the immature online community with little kids cussing about how they are the S***... can no one just play the game anymore? But it is not all so bad... Online gaming gives opportunity to lost potential and lets many people with skills in different remote areas have a chance to compete.Also, at the highest levels of online game play... everyone is for the most part mature, at least in my experience of CS. In public games, yeah there will always be annoying players, but in high level scrims, we just play. I used to go to my arcade MGL every Saturday but the manager is an ASS and I rarely set foot in there... Plus all is not lost... I know my friend who still goes to the arcade every Saturday and has made a lot of friends there whom he hangs out with regularly...The arcade scene is dying... But not everything about the social aspect is going with it... Anyone in good CS teams will know each other in person... and any decent team looking to actually play people for "initials on the high screen list" will meet at Lan Centers or events like MLG and EVO so online gaming and such isn't always just bout anonymous gamers hiding behind their tags.These are just my thoughts on the subject.
lagrangeFeb 11, 2007
"You know, when I first read about the decline in arcades, the first thing that went through my mind was to wonder how all the second-tier celebrities out there felt about it."Second tier? Come on now, he would have to suck a lot of dick to get back up to second tier. Take it easy on the guy.