Obsolete Blog » arcade http://obsoleteblog.com What Ever Happened To.... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:40:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Playing Video Games at an Arcade http://obsoleteblog.com/2009/11/22/playing-video-games-at-an-arcade/ http://obsoleteblog.com/2009/11/22/playing-video-games-at-an-arcade/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:19:22 +0000 admin http://obsoleteblog.com/?p=73 Once a favorite activity of geeks worldwide, going to the arcade to play video games began fading away in the mid-1990s, just as going to the arcade to play pinball had done a decade before. A few arcades survive, but the days of gamers lining up to toss quarters into Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat are long gone.

Classic Arcade

Classic Arcade

It’s easy to see why: The advent of advanced gaming systems allows you to experience the same action at home, minus the dungeon-like lighting, the deafening game noise, and the premature exhaustion of your lunch money for the week.

Systems such as the Playstation 3 and XBox360 offer gamers the same great gameplay experience as they would find at an arcade, while being in the comfort of their mom’s basement, er… I mean their own home.

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