DoA Creator Says Online Is New Arcade

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday May 21, 2003 @11:15PM from the dead-or-alive-sand-removal dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to this interview with Dead Or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki at Gamespy. The discussion covers the forthcoming Ninja Gaiden, as well as the new Dead Or Alive Online title we've previously mentioned, but the most interesting part of the interview may be Itagaki's assertion that "When you look at arcade culture, it's pretty much dying. I feel that it needs to be replaced with something else, and that is online gaming. Online connects the homes around the nation to create an arcade-like experience without going to an arcade."

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Re:Arcades Dying? They've been dead for a decade. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-22 04:43 · Score: 1, Informative

Uhh, not quite 10 years, 1992-1995 were good years for the arcade industry. Post 1995 the arcades started to die when online gaming started to become popular, and the fighting game genre died in the arcades.