I miss being able to go play arcade games in the mall. I used to go every weekend to play games like Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, or NBA Jam when I was a kid. It was a sad time when arcades started closing up around 2002.

@richardson.1424

6 жыл бұрын

gedaman Same here. I miss it as well.

@rebelmeister9501

6 жыл бұрын

Same here brother

@Timmyskills

5 жыл бұрын

I miss it.

@seagramrip187

5 жыл бұрын

gedaman just take a flight to japan bro it’s alive there it’s amazing I miss them days as well but it’s only a flight away

@reneastle8447

5 жыл бұрын

We'll get all the arcades back, gedaman. I'm planning to put together a Retro Decade Revival Project. Our goal is to bring real entertainment, true talent, pure originality and diversity, old school and more back into the public mainstream, starting with the 1980s. Arcades will start reopening to massive successes and will flourish once again.

I'm just glad I lived the glamour years of the arcades!

I miss the days of hanging out all night at Grand Prix Race-O-Rama in South Florida that was open all night, played arcade video games and rode go carts all night!

I remember trying to explain the appeal of the 80's arcade experience to my son, that there was a time when getting a high score on a game like Defender or Donkey Kong really meant something to other gamers. Poor kid didn't get it at all and probably asked me for any tickets I had so he could realize his dream of owning a piece of rubber dog shit or whatever he ended up getting. Sad, I tell ya!

@brandonselitetv1436

8 жыл бұрын

of course he didn't understand it cause your living in a era where is more home based.

This is still alive and well in Japan, so this style of arcade gaming is not gone from the face of the Earth, luckily. Good little documentary!

@norbertop.niebres6320

4 жыл бұрын

Japan is the ONLY major market that still has video arcades and video arcade game.

When Street Fighter II came out in the arcades in 90's it ate all my tokens/quarters lol

Galaga is still fun! It never gets old.

@danlivni2097

5 жыл бұрын

Moon Cresta and Phoenix are similar games to Galaga and are great games

@hellacia8151

3 жыл бұрын

Try Galaga '88. To me, it blows the original out of the water and is what I would consider a perfect sequel

It's neat to see people keeping the spirit of the arcade alive I grew up around arcades, My father managed one for over 20 years so I witnessed first hand the rise and fall that particular arcade which steadily lost business after 1998 or so and finally closed it's doors in 2005 however just recently someone has bought the name and has reopened a revamped more modernized arcade with a rec-room something I had suggested years ago I have yet to check out the new arcade though I wish them well.

I actually teared up a bit watching this. I used to go to the tilt, pop in some quarters, and play on the arcade machines, now it's all gone. The excitement of hearing all the different games operating, playing the games that you couldn't play at home or experience the same way on a home console... it was awesome.

I love arcades I just can't go there a lot so when I can't go I just play on the PS4 but if I had a choice I would go to a arcade any day

@valkor73

6 жыл бұрын

they need to have alot of games serve beer and food

How to revive arcade? Incorporate new technology such as VR. Ordinary people can't buy expensive VR headsets. So enterpreneurs should take advantage and provide a service.

@a_e_p__b3506

6 жыл бұрын

Nemesis T-Type its exsist ,in my city (Montréal) you can for 20$ play one hour of vr game

@jamiekuchma

5 жыл бұрын

VR is nasty sharing headsets with people

@fatherfintanstack8810

5 жыл бұрын

They will soon. Give it a couple years and VR will be cheap

@EwanLim

4 жыл бұрын

saw this 2 year old reply and realized that 2 years ago... vr headsets were pretty cheap in asia. now 2 years later, no one really cares much about it and has totally moved on from VR.

@o.g.millennials

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamiekuchma As nasty as sharing arcade machines with other people.

Bring back to where it once was.

The Barcade concept is awesome! I love The Verge and their style of reporting... It's head and shoulders above everyone else.

WOW! That was beautiful. Almost made me stuff a quarter into my iPhone to watch it again. MORE OF THIS!

My era in arcades was when street fighter 2 came out but their was still loads to come before 2000...best times ever in them arcades I loved the fighting n beats em ups and odd racing games there is still a need for these places its sad to see ticket machines in their places....

I remember seeing Art of Fighting on a huge monitor back in the early 1990s along with Dragon's Lair. Saw the huge crowds that surrounded Mortal Kombat 2. Good times.

Years ago, I used to think arcades wouldn't make it anymore. The only way an arcade can technically make any money these days is with ticket redemption games. In a family fun center, an old Street Fighter game with joysticks and buttons won't generate in the same class of revenue as Big Bass Wheel that kids get the thrill out of getting tickets for candy. Sad, but true. However, with "barcades" becoming a thing in populated cities, I still have hope. In Charlotte, I went over to Abari, and it was incredibly packed with people of all ages, playing the hell out of House of the Dead 2, MvC2 and pinball tables. These games may now be "oldies" but will always be goodies.

This deserves way more views! Quality work right here. Love these little docos, please, please, please make more :D

Love the info and style of these mini-docs. Keep it up!

The Verge makes THE best looking videos ever

I feel lucky because there is an arcade with 60 vintage video game cabinets only 40 minutes away from me, all top notch games none of that Chuckie Cheese type stuff...they have mortal kombat, afterburner, simpsons, house of the dead, Cadash, Primal Rage,forgotten worlds, magic sword, Metal slug and so many other good ones plus a jukebox and great food. It's been going for 5 years now and I am glad I discovered it...

Fantastic clip... Wish it was longer... Beautifully filmed too

as someone who was born in 2003, literally right after arcades died, i still feel like i'm looking at the grave of a dear friend. hey, at least dave and buster's is doing good.

Awesome guys. really love what you guys are doing.

This videography makes my heart sink in my chest.

Props to the Verge for this. Love this type of reporting. Keep it up!

Great production! Love the verge.

Great production. Thank you

I miss the arcades. Last of them died off where I'm at in 2007-2008 :/

I met most of my lifetime friends at the arcade between 1981 and 1988. Without the arcade, i'm positive I would never have met them otherwise. It was the perfect storm.

Cool mini doc, thanks Verge.

Good movie. I think they era was pretty much done when the Playstation first came out because suddenly what you could play at home had better graphics than what you saw at the arcade, so there wasn't a reason to go there so much anymore. Before that, the graphics at the arcade were superior.

@gedaman

6 жыл бұрын

nhsadm The graphics were still better in the arcade at that time. It wasn’t until the PlayStation 2 in 2000 that consoles were finally on par with arcades. I think the last big arcade game in America was Marvel vs. Capcom 2 which was almost identical on the Dreamcast.

@fenderman21guitar

6 жыл бұрын

yeh....except thats not actually true is it, it took until the dreamcast/ps2 era for that to be true.

@ryanoconnor5176

5 жыл бұрын

Actually I think the arcade went down hill after Nintendo released the NES and Sega released the master system, in 1985. Because who would go to an arcade when you can play better games at home

@TheyCallMeSledge

4 жыл бұрын

@@ryanoconnor5176 That would be the first decline of Arcade culture when home consoles made their comeback in the late 80's. Just like with home video games when Nintendo entered the market, the arcade scene was revived in 1991 when the release of Street Fighter 2 created the Fighting Game Boom. Home consoles during the duration of the 90s were not touching the graphics and accessibility of Arcade cabinets and since cabinets were everywhere, it created places for people to hangout and play Arcade games for small fees as opposed to shelling out $40-$50 for one game, plus you got to play against several people at the Arcade as opposed to a few friends at home with a limited selection of games. It wasn't until the 6th generation, (Dreamcast/PS2/GameCube/XBox) and the advent of online gaming that created the slow decline of the Arcade scene as graphics were finally up to par with Arcade games and with an improving structure on gaming online, it created a network at home that you didn't even need to leave the house to play with several people. To me in 2005 when the XBox 360 was released, that was a wrap for Arcade culture here in America because at that time, the XBox brand had mastered the structure of online gaming and other consoles followed suit.

@o.g.millennials

4 жыл бұрын

@@ryanoconnor5176 Wrong. Dead wrong.

I would love to have arcades with modern indie games mixed in with the classics. Really fast games like Super Hexagon and even Hotline Miami could be great.

I miss the arcades. Every Saturday all my allowance went to Gallaga and Xevious. Aww to be a kid again! :-)

Great sound.

Awesome video

Here's what stands out to me about Arcade games. The first popular game i remember was Space Invaders in 1978. In 79 you had Asteroids and Galaxians. But if you look at 1980 to 1982 you had so many incredible arcade games come out. Just look at the games that came out between 80 to 82. Pacman, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Mrs Pacman, Galaga, Moon Cresta, Defender, Scramble, Robotron, Frogger, Centipede, Millipede, Missile Command, Joust, Dig Dug, Vanguard, Zaxxon, Qbert, Pole Position, Jungle Hunt, Tempest, Moon Patrol, Moon Buggy, Cobra, Berzerk, Gorf, Phoenix, Burger Time, Battle Zone, Mr Do, Star Castle, Tron. Astrosmash was a great game from Intellivision

Very sad but well done documentary

Well done

My corner store as a kid had so many classic 25 cent games. Every Street Fighter ,SNK, NARC, Cruisn, PaperBoy. His model was the same back then. Bring the kids in for games. They will spend money on junk food and sandwiches. The old man sold it to someone who got rid of them and his business sank.

I used to play the heck out of Soul Calibur 3 at the arcade where I lived. Had it on ps2, but the arcade version was so fun

Round 1 just opened near me and I'm HYPE. Spent my entire teenage years at the mall at the arcade and the LAN center.

I would love a local arcade and I'm 15, I love the "retroness" of it. I don't really think I would be bothered if I got tickets or not, I just want to beat high scores :L

At least in some other countries, like here in the Philippines, the arcade is pretty much alive and booming. It's actually cheaper than other forms of entertainment here.

not a 90s kid or anything but it hit me that arcades werent around anymore after one of my favorites closed down. Its a cool place to hang out and wish there were more

Guys, every time you put on one of these features, it reminds me why I only visit Engadget when you run out of news for me :) Awesome, keep doin' whatcha doin'

Has anyone else noticed the fact that when people don't understand or don't like something and they observe people participating in it often, they dismissively state that these people are addicted to said activity?

The guy at 3:00 can't say "China Town Fair" any faster.

man this is cinda sad, it made me feel saad! i really do miss the arcades back in the day! and tbh, i had so mutch more fun then and there that i have had today as an adult!

I really enjoyed the music in this

I have recently gotten back into fighting games and I really miss arcades and still wish that there were more of them still around.

Anytime I see an Arcade I play. Back in the day... Gas station, laundry mats, grocery, hotels... Arcade cabinets were all over.

Timeout at Springfield Mall. yessss

Did anyone else roll their eyes when one guy said his kids bought almost all the games available for the iPad for thirty-fourty dollars?

Been a while since I been to an arcade. Good little documentary to remind me lol

arcades are still alive in our country

Arcades as they were known in the 80s are probably gone but not dead. An arcade just opened up in my small town and is attracting an audience. We shall see if it survives but kids are playing the redemption games and the 40 somethings are playing Ms Pacman. Barcades are also popular in many cities but I don't know if they will last either. Pinball seems to have a resurgence and I visited a pinball arcade in Austin Texas. It is doing well but they have any interesting business model. Every game in the arcade is for sale for home use. Home game rooms are becoming a very popular idea now that the 40 something and some late 20s and 30 somethings are making these rooms and filling them. I will be interesting to see what happens as time marches on but I don't think they are dead. ... yet.

@brandontriplin5447

7 жыл бұрын

SirTinnlee did it survive

The only thing I miss about arcades was the experience, “street matches” with the local pro and being forced to be good with the limited credits you get, other than that arcades still exist big time through emulation at home. A nice front end, some arcade sticks and thousands of roms...arcades have never disappeared.

I miss the local arcade at the mall..sucks most of them have closed down.

did enybody else notice that he said donkey kong could be played on the xbox 360 and ps3 it's a damn nintendo game

the biggest problem with arcades is that now everyone has internet, everyone can go online and play with people all over the world. Why would you leave your house when you could play with friends at home? I will say that this era has impacted my dad quite a bit. He always liked playing games by himself and really can't imagine doing anything else. He said is feels weird interacting with people you don't know from everywhere. Now its just common place.

Me and my cousin would spend small fortunes playing arcade games, especially when Mortal Kombat came out. It was bloodiers than anything we'd ever seen.

I miss the mall arcades (hell the mall) or the random video games in resturants (while waiting for a table) or corner stores (I probably spent more time watching other people play than I played)

i played a lots of arcade games in shop when i was in my home country ... now this video remind me to think the past

I like this style of reporting.

Ohhhhhhhh, I remember going to "Time Out" in Springfield when I was a kid and spending hours there. Although, the games weren't black and white when I was kid. Didn't know it was around that long.

2022 and the home arcade scene is BOOMING - nearly 3 Million Arcade 1up units sold and soon the emergence of virtual reality in full interactive experience. One day we will also see 3D rendered "help me Obi-Wan" remakes of the classics. Gonna be cool!

Seeing all those broken and busted arcade machines makes me really sad... As much as I appreciate technology, it seperated us...And the saddest thing is, I think it will never change...

Walmart has three drving games, several stuffed toy games and The Class of 1981 video game.

I would love to build a full size Mame arcade cabinet.

Funny thing, i searched what happened to arcades after getting ready for work and finding a quarter in the pocket of my pants. I thought it strange finding a quarter as i rarely use cash anymore, huh, cant buy anything for a quarter these days. Then i reminisced about what a quarter used to mean and how much power over 10 year old me, they held, how id beg my parents for just one to play the final fight arcade game at the burger joint we'd go to as a family for a treat after spending the day at the beach in the late 80s...or at the bowling alley arcade after playing our kids leagues on the weekend with my cousin, when video games were everything. Staring at that quarter, i might as well have jumped into a time machine, whisked away to a simpler time on the winds of joyful neon memories.

BLACK KNIGHT 2000 IS MY FAVORITE!!! I have never played it in person but I have always wanted to

The introduction music is very Ministry-esque

Gods luck I have an arcade in every movie theater.

this is so sad :(

could have made it a bit longer this deserves more than 20 mins..

6:15 "They can play donkey Kong on their PlayStation or Xbox" Credibility denied.

In Mexico the arcades are dead to :(

The Atari dude knows his stuff.

Yeah it's sad that that kids dont have these places to play and hang out now.

The home console killed the arcade. But it was also the arcade's fault for never reinventing itself for the changing demands of its customers, while the home console reinvents itself every 4-5 years.

all local arcades here closed. sad

Nowadays they’re baby’s first casino

I'll gladly challenge anyone to find 16GB worth of actually GOOD iPad games. The point is he has everything that matters or is fun, and that playtime and price beats the arcade any day. Home consoles or PCs beat them even more, that's what he was getting at.

The verge is easily the best website on the Internet. Has the best people working on putting out the best content. Nobody comes close. Seriously.

I started playing arcades from 1986 to proble when they died out 2002.

@the0to1smell86

8 жыл бұрын

and I loved it best time of my life ..friends fun ..nachos soda bubble gum and parking your bike upside up in front of the arcade store or neighborhood grocery store

@valkor73

6 жыл бұрын

double dragon blew my mind when i first saw it

i can safety say that arcade machines are not dead in my country

should have shown tasteless instead of husky.

Great short! They need to come back in the west! They are so very social! Just look at Japan!👾

What happened to all the arcades? I would throw temper tantrums and my dad would give me a handful of quarters and I was happy playing my pinball!

6 players, 2 screens, X-Men! Need I say more?

My malls have arcades I just go and look it’s to hard for me to put money in them cause I own some of these arcades at my house and lots of them are old games the newest games I’m interested in playing cost $2.00 which is a lot of money I know an arcade that has over 600 arcade games that only cost $15.00 you enter and play as much you want no money required the only problem with that arcade is no new releases I hate to play the same games every time we still have new movies going to the theaters when’s there going to be new games going to the arcades

this is so sad

@the0to1smell86

8 жыл бұрын

yes it is .

omg i went to jr high im mt. prospect il

I have been around arcades all my life. My dad is in the industry, the money killed the arcades . At the 1993 ish peak with sega rally and the like. A twin sweater cabinet would easily be $30,000. So yes yo made you're money, but not enough.. The manufacturers got greedy because they knew that the operators would be cashing in on punters.. It spiralled to a point where consoles became a justifiable alternative. Graphics overtook because the likes of sega and midway sat back and charged too much.

Arcade1up helped me achieve the dream of owning an arcade machine and freeplay barcades are a great way to experience a ton of games without spending a ton of money, but there definitely is something loss when you have an infinite amount of lives.

I WTF'ed at 3:32

I really hope 1 day soon in the 2020's I able to bring the arcade back in a new kinda way, in a similar way like the early 80's if I ever get the chance to in the early of the this new decade some how ❔

I remeber playing a simpson árcade game and random kids used to join me in the middle of the game

Husky FTW!