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Message: [QUOTE="TamagotchiTamaHero24, post: 165514, member: 215120"] Game preferences, I guess? In the U.S., the idea was that the arcade was the highest of high end, whereas in Japan it seems to moreso be “fun hangout place that can also have really cool stuff”. In the west, there seems to have been more pressure on arcades to perform, which doesn’t work long term. Eventually, cost caught up, risk caught up, and it just wasn’t viable anymore to push tech for these giant machines that costed literally thousands of dollars to get, let alone maintain. And, on top of everything, shifting market conditions with the type of games people wanted to play. I can’t say why, but the rise of the RPG and adventure genres in the west directly correlates with the death of the arcade scene here. Again, couldn’t tell you why, as those genres had already been popular in Japan for well over a decade with no repercussions for the arcade scene in that region. That said, all of this is my own conjecture. Your best bet would be to ask somebody like Egg-McMuffin Man, who not only lives in Japan but also is older than I am and has better perspective that way. [/QUOTE]

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