If you were to open an arcade, how would you go about doing it??

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isamu said:
One can still dream, right? :D
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You bumped this 8.5 year old thread and subsequently caused me to read it all. Entertaining stuff.

Anyways, how are your financial endeavors coming along? Well enough for you to open your free arcade anytime soon?
 
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dspoonrt said:
You bumped this 8.5 year old thread and subsequently caused me to read it all. Entertaining stuff.
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The first thing I thought of about this topic was the story of others who have gone through the trouble of opening up an arcade. The one that immediately springs to mind is from Ccatalyst on Atariage, who talks about all the details people don't consider when it comes to starting up a business.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topi...lection/page__st__75__p__2277395#entry2277395

And I did not realise how old the thread was until page 3. I feel silly.
 
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The age of 25-cents-entertainment is long over.
 
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Total bullshit in this day and age.
The european "scene" has been dead for almost two decades.
 
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Portland is in it's own universe. Where new arcades are opening every few months.
 
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FeelGood said:
first off, I'd put in pinball machines

Medieval Madness
Addams Family
Attack from Mars
and the last Elvira machine from Bally Williams.

Then I'd have the following games:
Radiant Silvergun
Samurai Shodown II
Asura Zanmaden
Metal Slug 3
Blazing Star
19XX
This one puzzle game from Fabtek/Seibu called battle balls or some shit
Super Puzzle Gem Fighter
Vampire Savior
Super Street Fighter II X
Street Fighter Alpha 3
And Street Fighter 2 Rainbow edition (with the multiple fireballs on screen)

This would basically be my own kick ass arcade. Cost would be roughly $15 K for all the pinball machines and 12 x $500 + freight shipping for the candy cabs (no american style cabs because they suck for small children), and $1200 + shipping for all the pcbs I'd need.

I'd want to place it in a local downtown area where there are a lot of young people, and young adults. Not on a college campus, though that's good too, but maybe next to or on the loft part of a coffee house. Rent would probably be a grand, with utilities. And I wouldn't make a dime off it.
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My taste back then was apparently timeless.

However, the market value of those pinball machines was not. Holy crap.
 
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Charles Franklin Fernandez said:
I am sorry that you saw my posts as part of a flame war. As I posted before, I was trying to show the other side of the coin. Things are not always as rosy as they seem to be. And my points were valid ones as they are pointed out by arcade operators and distributors that have been in the business for over 20 years.

And thank you to bring up the redemption games because I completely forgot about them. As another member mentioned they cannot be duplicated on the home consoles, and kids can always get good prizes.

Charles
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Came in late to this but I agree 100% with what you've posted. I've worked for an arcade for fucking 10 hellish years. You give up so much to keep a place like that maintained and running. I think my biggest bitch was people who tried to come in and smoke next to the machines. When reselling arcade units, nothing cuts the value more then faggots who put cigarette burns all over your panels.
 
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That's why Japanese arcade operators keep ashtrays near their machines.
 
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