Around here, it Does seem like arcades keep popping up. One in the mall, a new pool hall,...A Barcade downtown has good good games including old ones, but they raised prices through the roof and they don't maintain their games, at least they serve beer!...In Denver they have good ones, 3 right off the top of my head (Old games, Free Play, some with beer), but they're a couple of hours away...Recently, (here) I noticed an arcade above the casino (Illegal casino, oh wait those are "games of skill", and horse racing stuff that is legal; it's a "grey area" that continues to thrive, lots of places and slot machines (errr, "Games of skill" now in most bars))...Anyway, that arcade; It was a bright, fluorescent, lit up, horrible type place filled with Giant screens and redemption games...After going in and finding nothing of interest, I actually apologized to the 16 year old kid ignoring me from behind the counter; (OK, he seemed nice actually, haaa),...But I said I preferred "older" games and left. I got the story there as my friend also runs games/pinballs etc. He said he offered the "club" all the games they'd want and they said No, they would do their own. I've hypothesized, that maybe it is a place for parents to drop off their kids, while they gamble downstairs...
At least my friend got to play the new Mario Kart game there. He said he'd considered getting one because his "Cruisin' Blast" is so popular. He said he really dodged a bullet there because while players love his Crusin' Blast machine and people get in there and have fun and yell, go nuts and just really dig it...The new Mario Kart he said was boring as hell and people would hate it...