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Re:Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life by trainsplanes on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:50AM (#28243353)
Yep. This and the fact that each arcade has maybe 5 flavor of the month games, none of them remotely appealing to me, with the rest being countless floors of crane games, makes it kind of hard to care.

Like, I get it, they’re going for the whales who’ll waste loads of cash on “games” that just swallow coins. But leave at least one floor with some variation and some games that average people will want to play.

Re:Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life by toyg on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:37AM (#28243614)
> Like, I get it, they’re going for the whales who’ll waste loads of cash on “games” that just swallow coins

It's the "pachinkization" of videogames, which is ironic considering how pachinko machines try so hard to look like videogames.