AsoBit City.

Verry sad to hear it, japan is one of the few counrty's were arcades are still abundant and now even there they are getting less :smt009

 

well we can go to "Professor Olsens Spilleland" in Denmark (in the center of copenhagen) or the arcade museum in Jutland and there is arcades there

Mika-L´s homesite has a section about that museum

http://www.playright.dk/museum.php

but "Professor Olsens Spilleland" is kinda of sad because some of the machines are shut but Tivoli right next to Scala where "Professor Olsens Spilleland" is has many working arcade games

if you want information on Tivoli just the following in google info on Tivoli in Copenhagen in english or something like that and you will get some great info on that amusent park

http://www.tivoli.dk

 

Bloody hell. I thought the severe decline of arcades was limited to our Western shores.

 

This is an exception, not the rule. You can still throw a rock and hit an arcade in Shibuya.

 

there are alot of arcades in mexico ^^, in my city there where like 12 of them + like 3 machines on every corner grocery store xD"on these most of the time only snk games"

 

I have a Mexican friend who goes to Mexico each year to visit family. Anyway, I was talking with him one day about games, and he told me that there are a lot of arcades in Mexico, and that every time he went to visit his family, that he would play Metal Slug in the arcades. I think it is cool that arcades are still alive in some places.

 

Same here in Brazil. There's like 1 arcade on every single shopping mall.

We even had a GameWorks here in Rio, but it closed it's doors because the brazilian owners wanted to make some changes ( make more space for games instead of bar and tables ), but the GameWorks USA people said no.

So GameWorks was gone, and they created their own "brand" called HotZone ( www.hotzone.com.br )

 

Hehe Assembler i love your signature banner.

I cant stop smiling everytime i see it. :smt040

 

Wasnt AsoBit City a 8-floor gamestore? What does it have to do with arcades? Did it have an arcade floor?
Also I though that it closed a few months ago.

Arcades here in Portugal are a rare sight nowadays.
The only decent arcades left are the ones on the big shopping malls.

 

They probably shut down because it was getting expensive as hell there to pay the rent. They couldn't have payed the rent because not as many people play arcade games anymore and you can't just survive out there by having many DDR Machines.

 

those were the days in Denmark when you were on a little chinese burger joint in Valby called Hong Kong Grill (they do still make great burgers) and down in the corner there was an arcade machine with World Heroes and other great SNK games(on that machine they had multiple games) now it is shame that the machine is gone :smt022

so every time i see an arcademachine in a grillbar i will play on it for old times sake :smt024 :smt040

 

I seem to recall being in a packed arcade just three days ago. I'll not bitch that rent isn't expensive, but the smallest of arcades with very sporadic levels of usage in very expensive places (Shibuya) seem to be doing just fine.

 

mental note: check out AsoBitCity on my last day here :smt009

And from what I gathered on my short stay arcades seem to be faring very well here in Japan... my mate already spent 4000 yen or something on Taiko no Tatsujin :smt043

 

Arcades in Japan are doing really well !! Just in my small city we have a Sega World, Sega Hi-Tech Land and Sega Amusement Palace and a few small local arcades. I thought Astro Bit City wasn't that good. Just a shop for the visitors to Akihabara. It wasn't a place where you could find all those lost treasures that you'd always want to own. Can't Say that I'm that bothered with it closing.

Yakumo

 

I wonder if game centers out in the sticks have a better return than those in Tokyo. Rent is definitely cheaper, competition supposedly lower, and the hardware costs the same. Interesting.

 

I think they're in it for a while. They're by far the powerhouse in the arcades, in terms of machines and actualy arcades. In a popular part of town, it's not weird to see 2-3 Sega arcades (Gigo, Club Sega, High Tech). Shibuya's got 1 of each. Shinjuku is ridiculous.

VF puts any of the other 3D fighters to shame. I remember when SCII came out... most game centers stuck one 2-player setup next to 4 or 5 VFs.

In short, if they're allowed to come out w/ Virtua Cops, Outrun 2s, Derby Owners (yes, it's a cash cow) as well as new stuff (Avalon no Kagi) they'll do fine.