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Back to the arcades?
Console games haven’t been around that long in retrospect to how long computer games have been gracing the earth. Arcades used to be the only place you could play video games unless you were unhealthily rich and spoilt and had your own arcade game at home. The games weren’t particularly expensive and you could finish a game by spending less that £40 like you have to do nowadays. So gaming in your home has certain comforts such as been able to play at any time day or night, the privilege of been able to play in your underwear or allowing you to pause and return with some food or drink. So what if arcades were to come back and try and beat console games are get people back into the arcades once again. Here are some methods they may like to try:
1 – Recreating home environment.
The arcade could perfectly design the average teenage gamers room. There would be an unmade bed a copy of playboy hidden under the mattress, a number of horror videos strewn across the floor and underwear dangling from lampshades. The console would be linked to a TV covered in biscuit crumbs and a VCR with a tape of ‘Channel 5’s best bits’ resting inside. The gamer could choose from a variety of games, which they would have to find around the room hidden under dirty laundry, copied CD’s and games magazines. The teen gamer could then relax in the filthy room playing games charged by the hour and enjoy the homeliness of it all.
2 – Perverts Paradise
You all know that geeky kid at school who is obsessed with Lara Croft, the one who bought Beach Spikers just to see the girls jiggle their jugs? What do you imagine he does at home behind closed doors when he in playing those games? Well the arcade people already know and could invent a sound-poof booth for those perverts to go and watch pixelated characters in compromising situations. The booth would contain wipe-clean seats and an extra large box of Kleenex. The perverts can go about their filthy business for a small price and walk out grinning like an idiot and nobody knows anything!
3 – Multiplayer Bash
Internet gaming is getting more and more popular and the arcades could host live sessions where you can see all the people you are playing against. The competitors could sit around a large table and blow the crap out of each other without anyone getting hurt. This would rule out those annoying fools who always say stupid things to you in online games because they will know full well you will punch them in the face after the game is finished. I think this is a pretty cool idea and would stop those idiots who join games and then quickly leave when the game starts just to annoy everyone, damn I hate those people.
4 – 3D gaming
Developers have created those stupid looking goggles for 3D gaming before, that put the player in the midst of the action. However they never caught on. Arcade owners could put a lot of money into this and make decent ones for a truly riveting 3D gaming experience. Imagine Resident Evil in full 3D with zombies lunging at you and been able to punch them in the face, really, really hard! What would be more entertaining would be that people could watch you stumbling around the arcade screaming and punching air from time to time. This would be fun until someone got punched in the nose and they sued the arcade, a nice idea though.
5 – Not Too Comfy
Playing games at home always has interruptions. You have to go and eat your tea, walk to dog or walk to the shop at the vital point in a game. This surely adds to the gaming experience so the arcade could recreate interruptions for the gamers. Every 15 minutes the ‘arcade mum’ could come and vac around the gaming area and knock out your controller, a younger relative could throw a tantrum every half an hour and run into your room bawling so you miss a vital video clip or clue in the game and every hour a gang of bailiffs can come and repossess your television set.
Perhaps one day the arcades will be the only place games are played, especially if the prices at Game keep increasing the way they are doing.
Thank you for reading
Console games haven’t been around that long in retrospect to how long computer games have been gracing the earth. Arcades used to be the only place you could play video games unless you were unhealthily rich and spoilt and had your own arcade game at home. The games weren’t particularly expensive and you could finish a game by spending less that £40 like you have to do nowadays. So gaming in your home has certain comforts such as been able to play at any time day or night, the privilege of been able to play in your underwear or allowing you to pause and return with some food or drink. So what if arcades were to come back and try and beat console games are get people back into the arcades once again. Here are some methods they may like to try:
1 – Recreating home environment.
The arcade could perfectly design the average teenage gamers room. There would be an unmade bed a copy of playboy hidden under the mattress, a number of horror videos strewn across the floor and underwear dangling from lampshades. The console would be linked to a TV covered in biscuit crumbs and a VCR with a tape of ‘Channel 5’s best bits’ resting inside. The gamer could choose from a variety of games, which they would have to find around the room hidden under dirty laundry, copied CD’s and games magazines. The teen gamer could then relax in the filthy room playing games charged by the hour and enjoy the homeliness of it all.
2 – Perverts Paradise
You all know that geeky kid at school who is obsessed with Lara Croft, the one who bought Beach Spikers just to see the girls jiggle their jugs? What do you imagine he does at home behind closed doors when he in playing those games? Well the arcade people already know and could invent a sound-poof booth for those perverts to go and watch pixelated characters in compromising situations. The booth would contain wipe-clean seats and an extra large box of Kleenex. The perverts can go about their filthy business for a small price and walk out grinning like an idiot and nobody knows anything!
3 – Multiplayer Bash
Internet gaming is getting more and more popular and the arcades could host live sessions where you can see all the people you are playing against. The competitors could sit around a large table and blow the crap out of each other without anyone getting hurt. This would rule out those annoying fools who always say stupid things to you in online games because they will know full well you will punch them in the face after the game is finished. I think this is a pretty cool idea and would stop those idiots who join games and then quickly leave when the game starts just to annoy everyone, damn I hate those people.
4 – 3D gaming
Developers have created those stupid looking goggles for 3D gaming before, that put the player in the midst of the action. However they never caught on. Arcade owners could put a lot of money into this and make decent ones for a truly riveting 3D gaming experience. Imagine Resident Evil in full 3D with zombies lunging at you and been able to punch them in the face, really, really hard! What would be more entertaining would be that people could watch you stumbling around the arcade screaming and punching air from time to time. This would be fun until someone got punched in the nose and they sued the arcade, a nice idea though.
5 – Not Too Comfy
Playing games at home always has interruptions. You have to go and eat your tea, walk to dog or walk to the shop at the vital point in a game. This surely adds to the gaming experience so the arcade could recreate interruptions for the gamers. Every 15 minutes the ‘arcade mum’ could come and vac around the gaming area and knock out your controller, a younger relative could throw a tantrum every half an hour and run into your room bawling so you miss a vital video clip or clue in the game and every hour a gang of bailiffs can come and repossess your television set.
Perhaps one day the arcades will be the only place games are played, especially if the prices at Game keep increasing the way they are doing.
Thank you for reading
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No. As in:
*Dies through reading good post*
Stupid.
*Dies through reading good post*
Stupid.
*Digs a hole for Melancholy and says a kind word*
*dies*
Good post Kyz22, well done.
I obviously meant to say Number 3, obviously.
I must go to one of these arcades now, to partake in Number 2.
Back to the arcades?
Console games haven’t been around that long in retrospect to how long computer games have been gracing the earth. Arcades used to be the only place you could play video games unless you were unhealthily rich and spoilt and had your own arcade game at home. The games weren’t particularly expensive and you could finish a game by spending less that £40 like you have to do nowadays. So gaming in your home has certain comforts such as been able to play at any time day or night, the privilege of been able to play in your underwear or allowing you to pause and return with some food or drink. So what if arcades were to come back and try and beat console games are get people back into the arcades once again. Here are some methods they may like to try:
1 – Recreating home environment.
The arcade could perfectly design the average teenage gamers room. There would be an unmade bed a copy of playboy hidden under the mattress, a number of horror videos strewn across the floor and underwear dangling from lampshades. The console would be linked to a TV covered in biscuit crumbs and a VCR with a tape of ‘Channel 5’s best bits’ resting inside. The gamer could choose from a variety of games, which they would have to find around the room hidden under dirty laundry, copied CD’s and games magazines. The teen gamer could then relax in the filthy room playing games charged by the hour and enjoy the homeliness of it all.
2 – Perverts Paradise
You all know that geeky kid at school who is obsessed with Lara Croft, the one who bought Beach Spikers just to see the girls jiggle their jugs? What do you imagine he does at home behind closed doors when he in playing those games? Well the arcade people already know and could invent a sound-poof booth for those perverts to go and watch pixelated characters in compromising situations. The booth would contain wipe-clean seats and an extra large box of Kleenex. The perverts can go about their filthy business for a small price and walk out grinning like an idiot and nobody knows anything!
3 – Multiplayer Bash
Internet gaming is getting more and more popular and the arcades could host live sessions where you can see all the people you are playing against. The competitors could sit around a large table and blow the crap out of each other without anyone getting hurt. This would rule out those annoying fools who always say stupid things to you in online games because they will know full well you will punch them in the face after the game is finished. I think this is a pretty cool idea and would stop those idiots who join games and then quickly leave when the game starts just to annoy everyone, damn I hate those people.
4 – 3D gaming
Developers have created those stupid looking goggles for 3D gaming before, that put the player in the midst of the action. However they never caught on. Arcade owners could put a lot of money into this and make decent ones for a truly riveting 3D gaming experience. Imagine Resident Evil in full 3D with zombies lunging at you and been able to punch them in the face, really, really hard! What would be more entertaining would be that people could watch you stumbling around the arcade screaming and punching air from time to time. This would be fun until someone got punched in the nose and they sued the arcade, a nice idea though.
5 – Not Too Comfy
Playing games at home always has interruptions. You have to go and eat your tea, walk to dog or walk to the shop at the vital point in a game. This surely adds to the gaming experience so the arcade could recreate interruptions for the gamers. Every 15 minutes the ‘arcade mum’ could come and vac around the gaming area and knock out your controller, a younger relative could throw a tantrum every half an hour and run into your room bawling so you miss a vital video clip or clue in the game and every hour a gang of bailiffs can come and repossess your television set.
Perhaps one day the arcades will be the only place games are played, especially if the prices at Game keep increasing the way they are doing.
Thank you for reading
Console games haven’t been around that long in retrospect to how long computer games have been gracing the earth. Arcades used to be the only place you could play video games unless you were unhealthily rich and spoilt and had your own arcade game at home. The games weren’t particularly expensive and you could finish a game by spending less that £40 like you have to do nowadays. So gaming in your home has certain comforts such as been able to play at any time day or night, the privilege of been able to play in your underwear or allowing you to pause and return with some food or drink. So what if arcades were to come back and try and beat console games are get people back into the arcades once again. Here are some methods they may like to try:
1 – Recreating home environment.
The arcade could perfectly design the average teenage gamers room. There would be an unmade bed a copy of playboy hidden under the mattress, a number of horror videos strewn across the floor and underwear dangling from lampshades. The console would be linked to a TV covered in biscuit crumbs and a VCR with a tape of ‘Channel 5’s best bits’ resting inside. The gamer could choose from a variety of games, which they would have to find around the room hidden under dirty laundry, copied CD’s and games magazines. The teen gamer could then relax in the filthy room playing games charged by the hour and enjoy the homeliness of it all.
2 – Perverts Paradise
You all know that geeky kid at school who is obsessed with Lara Croft, the one who bought Beach Spikers just to see the girls jiggle their jugs? What do you imagine he does at home behind closed doors when he in playing those games? Well the arcade people already know and could invent a sound-poof booth for those perverts to go and watch pixelated characters in compromising situations. The booth would contain wipe-clean seats and an extra large box of Kleenex. The perverts can go about their filthy business for a small price and walk out grinning like an idiot and nobody knows anything!
3 – Multiplayer Bash
Internet gaming is getting more and more popular and the arcades could host live sessions where you can see all the people you are playing against. The competitors could sit around a large table and blow the crap out of each other without anyone getting hurt. This would rule out those annoying fools who always say stupid things to you in online games because they will know full well you will punch them in the face after the game is finished. I think this is a pretty cool idea and would stop those idiots who join games and then quickly leave when the game starts just to annoy everyone, damn I hate those people.
4 – 3D gaming
Developers have created those stupid looking goggles for 3D gaming before, that put the player in the midst of the action. However they never caught on. Arcade owners could put a lot of money into this and make decent ones for a truly riveting 3D gaming experience. Imagine Resident Evil in full 3D with zombies lunging at you and been able to punch them in the face, really, really hard! What would be more entertaining would be that people could watch you stumbling around the arcade screaming and punching air from time to time. This would be fun until someone got punched in the nose and they sued the arcade, a nice idea though.
5 – Not Too Comfy
Playing games at home always has interruptions. You have to go and eat your tea, walk to dog or walk to the shop at the vital point in a game. This surely adds to the gaming experience so the arcade could recreate interruptions for the gamers. Every 15 minutes the ‘arcade mum’ could come and vac around the gaming area and knock out your controller, a younger relative could throw a tantrum every half an hour and run into your room bawling so you miss a vital video clip or clue in the game and every hour a gang of bailiffs can come and repossess your television set.
Perhaps one day the arcades will be the only place games are played, especially if the prices at Game keep increasing the way they are doing.
Thank you for reading
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