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   Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 08:44:40 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

   I took my son to the arcade last night. Arcade gaming is objectively worse than it was 30 years ago. The graphics are worse, the controllers are worse, the gameplay is worse.

   Streetfighter II, Tekken, Daytona, Sega Rally, Time Crisis, Point Blank, etc. That was the pinnacle of arcade games.

   How the hell did personal gaming get so much better while arcade gaming goes backwards?

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     Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 08:53:43 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

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     • kamehamic

     @kamehamic Yeah, but why haven't those things filtered back into arcades? Why do they still have games with PS1 quality graphics?

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     kamehamic (kamehamic@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 08:53:44 JST kamehamic

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     Because it's more affordable (at least in the long run), plus all those games have been ported... also we have "free" games now, 30 years ago was the "beginning" of video gaming, not the big industry it's now. Throw internet into the mix...
     I guess what I'm trying to say is things have changed a LOT.
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     Accused Putin Apologist (pakkonenct@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 08:55:47 JST Accused Putin Apologist

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     @ned because the PC is the superior platform and consoles.took over from big expensive arcade machines

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     Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 08:57:49 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

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     • kamehamic

     @kamehamic Yep. And that was still there. an OG DDR.

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     kamehamic (kamehamic@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 08:57:50 JST kamehamic

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     I'm not up to speed on what's in the arcades now, are the games recent? for reference the most recent stuff I remember in arcades are the DDR machines.
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     Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 08:58:45 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

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     • Accused Putin Apologist

     @PakkonenCT That's the what, but not the why.

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     Accused Putin Apologist (pakkonenct@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 09:02:08 JST Accused Putin Apologist

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     @ned Nintendo killed the arcade. You could play multiple games..
     Same for PC and you didn't have to leave home.

     You could play adventure and rpg formats and story driven games. Not just racing and shooters.

     Plus practicality

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     Accused Putin Apologist (pakkonenct@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 09:03:08 JST Accused Putin Apologist

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     @ned you don't see homes designed with ski ball lanes...they do come wired for fiber though...

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     Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 09:04:27 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

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     @PakkonenCT Yeah but why do they still have Daytona USA with 90's grade vector graphics at the arcade, and not Gran Turismo 7?

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     Accused Putin Apologist (pakkonenct@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 09:17:08 JST Accused Putin Apologist

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     @ned machine is cheap. Nostalgia factor, and they don't wanna put a 2080rtx gpu and ryzen 5 cpu and msi mobo in and get robbed by some scumbag

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     Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 09:18:35 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

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     @PakkonenCT I would settle for Gran Turismo 5.

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     Lester Cordell (c_j_s@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 10:15:24 JST Lester Cordell

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     Arcade would probably cost you at least a quarter million to set up and assuming you're keeping pace you're probably dropping that again every five years.
     How many people were there putting money into the machines? Would you invest in one?
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     Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺 (ned@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 10:15:24 JST Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

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     @C_J_S Presumably you would sell old stock to bring in new stock. Sure you're not going to make all the money back, but some. But even then, you should be able to take an old driving sim, update the software, and reuse. But that doesn't seem to be happening.

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     Brother Phil 🇦🇺 au (philcolbourn@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 20:18:00 JST Brother Phil 🇦🇺 au

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     @ned

     40 years of upgrades