Why aren’t arcades big anymore?

They were a great place to hang out and meet people, but the advancement of the internet Xbox and all the online gaming it definitely killed the arcades.

They seem to be making a comeback. My son who is a major gamer loves seeing and playing the older coin-op games.

Can’t get him into pinball, though! 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

Still quite a few nearby me

I like skee-ball and air hockey hahah

It will be a wonderful idea to bring arcades back!
I think the main reason might be that people can play games at home or whatever. But we can do lots of things like watching movies or eating or drinking at home, too. But going out and doing these activities with friends is another experience.

A lot of people can get their own videogames at home these days where once you bought it, you can play for free (besides the electricity). I think it's something like that. 🤔

True, I think DaveNBuster took over.

Because people play video games at home now.

Great place to do drugs and have sex in the bathroom

Why would anyone go feed quarters into a machine and have to play standing up using controls that god knows what degenerate has touched before you when you can get a console and play from the comfort of your own couch?

It was causing gambling problems

Times and technology have changed, kids have other interests now like social media and game consoles that are way more advanced than arcade games were. Most arcade games aren't morpg's either so "boringgg" for most of the kids.

They are not profitable as it used to be. People are playing games with pc, psp, nitendo, etc.

This is like a jukebox or, 8 tracks, vinyl, cd or cassette where they are no longer attract people since we got music apps to listening song and music.

They still are. But I wish there is a separate one for adults. That way we won't have to be embarrassed lining up with kids haha.

But there are adult playgrounds (like pitball and the parkour stuff).

There's this super popular bar downtown that's an arcade & a bar at the same time. It's like Dave & Busters but more alcohol oriented.

So fun on a random Friday night

kids are too busy laying in their beds all way playing with smart phones...

they're too lazy to go outside & exercise, let alone go to an arcade where one actually has to move around...

Not profitable with the rise of personal gaming systems and large screen televisions.

Why go to an arcade when I play my PS5 on a 75” UHD TV.

It's not really a thing anymore...the young men and some women who would fill up these places now all play games at home online with their friends.

They were fun as a kid. Then I didn't understand why my dad watched us so closely there.

Like he was expecting sleaze😱

Unless you own the building and machines most cities want a yearly fee (tax) per machine

I think they not as profitable anymore.
We got some kinda arcade bars around here tho.

The same reason Triple XXX theaters closed down. Technology.

You would have loved the late 70s/early 80s. My parents actually owned an arcade that was part of their roller rink. Pinball and classic video games. As a teen, I wanted little more(except chicks of course).

there's an arcade bar a block from me and a pinball bar not too far away. most of those games are decades old

We have a few here in Dallas. Free Play has 100 games. Mostly retro and some pinball machines. You pay like $10 and everything is set to free play so you can play all day.

There's a few but they all lost that dark and seedy vibe and lighting that made the great.

Kids and people just have note home options and also most gamers don't like arcade style games anymore. Most gamers aren't interested in actual games anymore and are interested in simulators like FPS and sandbox games or into interactive cinematics. 90% of video games aren't really games any games these days.