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'Old School' Arcade Still Popular In NYC
pickens writes "In 2005, there were 44 licensed video game arcades in New York, according to the Department of Consumer Affairs; today, 23 survive. With the expansion of interactive online gaming, video game action has largely shifted to the home. 'Arcades are an anachronism now,' says Danny Frank, a spokesman for the Amusement and Music Owners Association of New York. 'They exist only in shopping malls.' But Chinatown Fair has become a center for all the outcasts in the city to bond over their shared love for a good 20-punch combo and 'old school' games that more popular arcades don't stock anymore — the classic Street Fighter II from 1991 and King of Fighters 1996, for example, as well as Ms Pac-Man and Time Crisis. 'Now, you can play a million people from all around the world,' says one player. 'For me, it's not the same as playing face-to-face. The young'uns may not care, but I do.'"
The photo at the top was obviously staged. No girl would kiss any guy who hangs out in an arcade all day.
This game will waste your life. Don't clicky!
Dammit, make me feel old again and I'll... I'll... Wave my cane at you!
Menacingly!
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
By tradition, permission to operate coin-operated machines in NYC is given by the Mob.
I'm still waiting for a nano-brew. All those little nano-borgs, working hard, just to make it exactly the way I like it. Isn't the potential of nanotechnology simply awesome?
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
PBR is what passed for good beer in 1893. (hence the blue ribbon)
That said, it's still better than most mega breweries' swill.