KoF machines dominated the South and Central American arcades, as well as the relatively few arcades that existed in China in past decades.
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The Tiny Arcades each have their own custom cabinets featuring classic artwork on the sides and front that you would see in arcades.
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The Rift took high-quality VR beyond universities and arcades The Rift took high-quality VR out of universities and arcades and put it in the hands of curious hobbyists.
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Unlike VR arcades, such as IMAX's recently opened VR center in Beverly Hills, MR arcades use real-world props and allow for more mobility through walking around a much larger space.
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Daytona was the most impressive looking 3D game in the arcades of the day, and a big earner for Sega (and the many arcades that decided to invest in a unit or two).
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Toy catching stations in arcades are notoriously difficult to control.
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Its influences are everything from classic arcades to VR entertainment.
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American casinos may soon look more like video game arcades.
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Arcades in the 1970s were the hip places to be.
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"The generalist arcades will slowly fade away," Mr. Nassima said.
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As technology marched forth, arcades were transported into the living room.
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The original Street Fighter II was released in arcades in 1991.
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Arcades haven't really been popular in the States since the 90s.
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Fortunately, Annelotte de Graff, aka Amber Arcades, is a different beast.
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"Mortal Kombat" was a fighting game released for arcades in 1992.
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Shopping arcades set farther back from the street are often deserted.
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That brought me back to seeing penny arcades as a child.
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At first VR will seem a fad; then only for hardcore gamers; then perhaps VR "arcades" will arise, a la the video-game arcades of the 80s; and only then will movie theaters be seriously threatened.
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Still distracted, he began talking, at last, about his experiences at arcades.
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Virtual reality arcades are here, but they're still in the novelty period.
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So could public arcades, like the ones HTC is promoting in China.
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Perhaps it'll be the next big thing to hit Japanese arcades instead.
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Leisure centers and theaters; shopping malls and universities; airports and, naturally, arcades.
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It's the mid-1980s, so you have funky fashion and actual arcades.
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Virtual reality arcades were supposed to be one of the first, most convenient ways that expensive VR headgear would reach the masses — but IMAX, the highest-profile provider of VR arcades, has decided to throw in the towel.
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There's also some lovely arcades in the city with lots of independent shops.
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It has only moved, like the arcades themselves, to the outskirts of culture.
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Mixed reality arcades blend the physical and virtual worlds together, in controlled ways.
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HTC is also expanding Viveport to two new audiences: arcades and traditional businesses.
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Arcades generally have in-house teams of employees with varying levels of expertise.
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Here, in the haunted arcades of Trumpland, urban explorers are the new flâneurs.
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He traded traditional tourist sites for karaoke joints, arcades, and illegal outdoor raves.
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That said, there's one place that Vive might reach before anyone else: arcades.
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CT: So you spent a lot of time in the arcades playing games?
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Like so many other Genesis games, "Gain Ground" was originally released for arcades.
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These risqué machines were often displayed in carnival gaming sections and penny arcades.
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Arcades were seen as seedy places, often associated with gambling and organized crime.
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Part of it was that it was one of the last arcades standing.
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Knucklez recalls that the earlier Atari 2600 actually boosted interest in the arcades.
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As have board games and arcades at bars and kid-free summer camps.
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Dave & Buster's plans on installing more than 500 HTC Vive VR headsets in its arcades across the US and Canada this month in a subtle acknowledgment that maybe arcades have nothing better to offer than a VR experience in 2018.
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Meanwhile, smaller-scale VR rides have become a staple of county fairs and arcades.
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And overall, the best demos seem like a good fit for workplaces or arcades.
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"They played it in the arcades, and have their memories of it," he explains.
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At arcades in nearby Chicago, people lined up to play inside BattleTech simulation pods.
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They can keep our kids safe in classrooms, churches, at concerts, and in arcades.
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In 1961, the zoning code was altered and encouraged more broad plazas and arcades.
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The point is that I never played Pac-Man, the arcade game, in arcades.
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Indoor and outdoor leisure facilities such as bowling alleys, arcades and soft play facilities.
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They look for ways to acquire them and seek out shooting games at arcades.
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I have 112 check-ins at airports (surprising) and 7 check-ins at arcades.
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Arcades are theme parks for cruising, where entrants pay for the possibility of getting laid.
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There's an area right behind the museum which has covered walkways and arcades with stores.
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Lively Daytona "has tons of rides, arcades, concerts and clubs," says the home rental company.
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For the first time, VR is hitting our public theme parks, arcades and movie theaters.
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You'll find them in museums, arcades, video game tournaments, and the homes of dedicated fans.
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The garden takes on a classical look, complete with brick arcades and wisteria-covered pergolas.
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But no one outside of the kids who haunted arcades knew what Neo Geo was.
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It dominated arcades and became a best-seller on home consoles like the Super Nintendo.
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In the early 20th century penny arcades might feature strength testers and fortune telling machines.
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It's like watching a man new to arcades slowly become overwhelmed by whack-a-mole.
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These are the virtual reality experiences currently being built into arcades, attractions, and theme parks.
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Gaming began, decades ago, as a social experience, in arcades and on living-room sofas.
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From the early days of arcades, video games have grown into a multibillion-dollar industry.
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It was in the arcades, and it looked like a cartoon that you could control.
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There's nowhere like the British seaside: thieving seagulls, empty arcades, bigoted pensioners, arctic fucking water.
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It's like 40 games of Whac-A-Mole simultaneously taking place in 40 adjacent arcades.
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The sounds that emit from the Tiny Arcades are also fairly loud and, notably, unadjustable.
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And then there is always a copy of Walter Benjamin's "The Arcades Project" within reach.
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Benjamin's gargantuan Arcades Project brims with philosophical propositions, poetic digressions, lyrical aphorisms, and experimental theses.
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The buttons on a calculator feel better than the clicky buttons and joystick on these arcades.
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That's compared to the £5.55 billion spent in betting shops, casinos, arcades and bingo halls combined.
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Some are salvaged from similar vintage equipment like arcade machines, specifically 13/76/77 Atari arcades.
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The design itself was developed by architect Victor Gruen and inspired by Europe's grand shopping arcades.
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If you're having visions of VR arcades dancing in your head right now, you're absolutely right.
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However, not all arcades can be expected to succeed at such a new form of technology.
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Swedish designer Love Hultèn is known for his beautiful custom made retro gaming arcades and devices.
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"Dada was the mother of Surrealism," he wrote in his unfinished magnum opus, The Arcades Project.
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"We've actually had a lot of interest in the US and Europe for arcades," said O'Brien.
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A few arcades create inviting vistas or make it easier to navigate downtown's erratic street grid.
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Arcades were experiencing a period of innovation, with "game centers" dotting areas with high foot traffic.
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Dance Dance Revolution first hit American arcades in 1999 and home TV screens two years later.
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It turns out that Benjamin's road to The Arcades Project was a long and winding one.
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In his intended magnum opus, The Arcades Project, the streets he once wandered have transformed into an interior as a result of the construction of arcades: Iron and glass structures that organized Parisian shops, built by Baron Haussmann after he famously demolished swaths of old Paris.
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Each gallery room is devoted to a given section – what Benjamin called a "convolute" — in his thousand-plus page tome Das Passagen-Werk (19130), known in English translation as The Arcades Project (Belknap/Harvard 21940), a speculative dive into modernity through Paris's 19135th-century shopping arcades.
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He constructed scenes in bedrooms, skateparks, arcades, and other places where he remembered experiencing bottled-up emotions.
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The company, which offers full-service restaurants and video arcades, also raised its full-year revenue guidance.
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If he had a constituency it was less Qom's seminaries than the gold arcades of Tehran's bazaar.
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Sculpture studio is whole of ground floor of house but on three levels separated by two arcades.
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" The pre-internet machines found all over malls, arcades, bars, and movie theaters are classified as "closed.
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People who do not own the equipment can head to VR arcades to try out the technology.
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It is the equivalent of arcades and movie theaters as venues for consuming VR content that's needed.
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Although The Arcades Project is unapproachable as a linear text, it abounds with insights and quotable gems.
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In hindsight, his perseverance and patience are as superhuman as the unrivaled scope of The Arcades Project.
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Incredible pictures, I think, from a series of photographs taken in the 1980s at video game arcades.
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At the time, "video games" of the type we associate with arcades today were only just beginning their rise to prominence, and a lot of arcades were still full of pinball machines, novelty slot machines, and a variety of other mostly-mechanical games of skill and/or chance.
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Perhaps it's due to some specific challenges around what's needed for mixed reality arcades to scale and succeed.
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The shape-spinning, block-dropping game has spun off into countless iterations across consoles, handhelds, phones and arcades.
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The sprawling collection of writings grapples with capitalism and modernity, viewed through the lens of Paris's shopping arcades.
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Whether in bars, malls, arcades, or living rooms, games have always been meant to be shared with others.
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Whether in bars, malls, arcades, or living rooms, games have always been meant to be shared with others.
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Acer and Starbreeze teamed up to launch their StarVR headsets for arcades and theme parks earlier this year.
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The declutter gurus, yard sales and online exchanges — the arcades of unwanted waste — are powerful cultural forces, too.
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While "Tetris" had seen success in the arcades, it took years to produce a properly licensed home version.
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R-Type is a port of a classic shoot 'em up game that debuted in arcades in 1987.
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Since the days of the arcades, gaming's been about the quick turnover, the fast completion, the high score.
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Blood stains spattered the Rue Des Grandes Arcades, a shopping street where some of the victims were shot.
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Each area of Japan has a few Guilty Gear-specific arcades that house most of the top talent.
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In the UAE, regional tourism and business hub Dubai joined other emirates in shuttering cinemas, arcades and gyms.
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Violent video games began drawing the attention of the authorities shortly after they started showing up in arcades.
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Given their size, the Tiny Arcades are ultimately more of a novelty item than a great gaming experience.
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You'll probably want to remove these keychains as there's no way these tiny arcades will fit in your pockets.
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The half-tone printing effect on this light-up marquee adds to the authentic feel of these tiny arcades.
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Some of the series's retro elements are outdated now, like the stand-up arcades and the giant walkie-talkies.
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Keenan believed that the future of gaming was to emulate Disney World's "Space Mountain" in malls and other arcades.
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Four staples of 1980s arcades, freshly rescued from the Bandai Namco vaults and dressed up in high definition graphics.
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But when you fast forward three years to now, VR headsets still aren't commonly found in arcades or schools.
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No longer restricted to arcades or even living rooms, they're in our backpacks and pockets, even on our faces.
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He lives in Tokyo, and has access to new Hatsune Miku vinyls, Nintendo 3DS limited editions, and Sega arcades.
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The game took arcades by storm in 1991 with a colorful cast of characters and an unprecedented control scheme.
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Japan wants to allow several "integrated resorts", Las Vegas-style complexes that include casinos, shopping arcades and conference centres.
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The independently owned arcades Geoffrey Van (closed 2010), Good Fairy (2011) and W. Jones (55) have been further casualties.
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Les Arcades du Lac, by Ricardo Bofill, is a pedestrian-friendly, six-building housing complex stretched over an artificial lake.
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Hindu embellishments to baolis included covered arcades and pavilions that served as refuges from the heat and even as lodgings.
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The project has been in development for years, and now, Halo: Fireteam Raven is finally ready to hit the arcades.
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The Vive is also popular with VR arcades, and HTC actually operates its own VR "experiential center" known as Viveland.
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An updated version followed in July 2016 — also for arcades — and that's the version now releasing for home gaming hardware.
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The propulsive, unidirectional energy of "Super Mario Bros" was a holdover from the era of coin-gobbling video-game arcades.
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It canceled a VR camera project with Google in August, and shut down its other four arcades earlier this year.
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For what it's worth, the game being depicted is called Chunithm—it's a rhythm game developed by Sega for arcades.
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He came from a poor family who managed to spare him $220 to spend on video arcades whenever he went.
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But KatVR is already selling these to arcades in China, which are investing in virtual reality in a big way.
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One side of the genre that's not changed particularly is the presence of foot-stomping rhythm games in arcades worldwide.
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As a kid, Cobb spent most of his nights at the nickel arcades of Portland, where he first discovered pinball.
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Homesick is filled with spidery-faced women and deadly fruits, against the backdrop of games arcades and meals at Friendly's.
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Along Water Street, public arcades and public plazas together yielded more than 2.5 million square feet of bonus floor area.
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According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, amusement parks and arcades employ workers in a variety of occupations.
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Americans got their first chance to play that hero when Donkey Kong debuted in U.S. arcades 35 years ago today.
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It was the heart of the city with an impressive display of neon lights, movie theatres, restaurants, and other arcades.
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Bandai Namco announced that it would be offering a VR Mario Kart experience using the HTC Vive in Japanese arcades.
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Birthday parties underwent a glow-up in the 1980s when family entertainment centers — bowling alleys, roller skating rinks, arcades — proliferated.
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This move outside the home is increasingly common, whether in the form of arcades or larger, more theme park-like installations.
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It takes some serious engineers to solve these problems, on site, as they occur — lest you have downtime in your arcades.
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The one sign that there may be lots of people with not much to do is the number of gaming arcades.
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In the 1930s, amusement arcades and dance halls introduced neon to their storefronts; the local spectacle became known as the Illuminations.
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Ever since Street Fighter II revolutionized arcades, competitive fighting game culture has evolved into a full blown Fighting Game Community (FGC).
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You can also visit arcades to play Sega classics like Space Harrier, Out Run, and — amazingly — Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown.
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EBay, the first e-commerce site, was until recently the web's kitschier, crummier answer to Benjamin's arcades or Breton's Saint-Ouen.
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Talk about VR arcades with anyone in the space and the topic of China will come up by the second sentence.
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He first made his name with Sega racers for the arcades, producing Sega Rally and its sequel, and Manx TT Superbike.
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In one two-block walk, visitors will find two arcades, Dr. Morbid's Haunted House and the House of Frankenstein Wax Museum.
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Cross Alameda Street into the Arts District and you'll find a totally different set of great restaurants, bars, and arcades altogether.
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"Ambush them in the houses, the alleyways and the streets, mine the arcades and carry out raid after raid," he said.
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But I didn't play it much at arcades, instead, it— and its NYC-based sequel—were staples of my beloved Dreamcast.
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This vast complex of buildings, arcades and gardens on the Right Bank was originally built by Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s.
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The 210-225 "Guide to the Antique Shops of Britain" listed more than 25 active dealers in the Portobello Road arcades.
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Arcades became oversaturated; Space Invaders begat a clone of Space Invaders which begat an even more inferior clone of that clone.
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Wifi and broadband enabled homes have negated the need for the former and consoles and arcades have done so with the latter.
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Each of the four Tiny Arcades includes a joystick, and a pair of action buttons, whether the game needs them or not.
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My first experience of mixed reality arcades was The Void's "Ghostbusters" movie tie-in at Madame Tussauds in New York last summer.
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The aspirations of "The Legend of Zelda" had less in common with the feverish spirit of the arcades than of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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It isn't just VR. There's also new forms of play and arcades that are possible and interactive audience participation for content creation.
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These arcades, which have started to spring up across the globe, offer virtual reality games for a one-time or hourly rate.
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Along with the usual array of clothing stores and jewellery shops, there are toddlers' play centres, virtual-reality arcades and cosplay cafés.
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HTC isn't pitching this as a consumer device — it's more likely to show up in training simulators, industrial design facilities, or arcades.
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When the arcades in Times Square closed, people saw it as a plus, because they thought teenagers congregating was a bad thing.
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Arcades began shuttering in the late 275s, but bars centered around coin-operated video games are giving these machines a second life.
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The concept may be new to arcades, but it's not a stretch to imagine this in the mainstream in the nearer future.
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Pokken Tournament was originally only available in Japanese arcades, but Nintendo announced plans to bring it to its home console last August.
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At the very high end, you've got specialty headsets for arcades and theme parks: Starbreeze's StarVR or the Void's custom Rapture headset.
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Now, arcades are something of a novelty for nostalgic adults, like the arcade-themed bars that have popped up around the country.
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Sega created the "Shinobi" franchise for arcades, but the game eventually became an important part of the company's transition to home consoles.
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Collectors and nostalgia-seekers have long been filling their basements with classic cabinets rescued from defunct arcades killed off by game consoles.
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At a glance the Aorus VR simulator looks like a lot of similar rigs you'd find in janky arcades of your youth.
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We're looking at Rift and PS VR in the future, hopefully even expanding this racing experience into brick-and-mortar VR arcades.
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The order closes retail businesses in which close personal contact is difficult to avoid, such as barber shops, arcades, gyms and theaters.
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Built in 2165, the historic Beaux-Arts and neo-Classical space is modeled after the decorative shopping arcades of 19th-century London.
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Do you miss the days where you could spend endless hours in the arcades (or just want to play Stranger Things IRL)?
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In the 1970s, he hired software engineers and directed his growing company, Nakamura Manufacturing — later renamed Namco — to develop titles for arcades.
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Beginning next month, workers will check more than 20,000 public restrooms, in subways, parks, community centers, public gyms and underground commercial arcades.
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Basketball video games had some notably serious verisimilitude issues well before NBA Jam arrived on the scene and in arcades in 1993.
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Funnily enough, day trips to Akihabara and Harajuku brought some of these to life through arcades, cosplayers, and stores full of manga collectibles.
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That was the day Nintendo officially began selling Donkey Kong to arcades—and introduced the world to a mustachioed little fellow named Jumpman.
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Immersion Arcade in Illinois, for example, shut down after a few months of operation, but new arcades continue to open across the globe.
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Acer is joining forces with the game studio Starbreeze to develop a high-end virtual reality headset designed for arcades and theme parks.
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As you might expect, it was a whole lot of fun, and a much-needed reminder of why I love arcades so much.
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"Space Invaders" was ubiquitous in arcades during the 1980s, but it also helped push the boundaries of video game technology at the time.
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In the back rooms, the collision of Italianate arcades and ye olde timbered beams is more clearly a pastiche than it once seemed.
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"Donkey Kong" was extremely popular in arcades around the world, earning the game its own spot in the pantheon of classic video games.
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On another day during the busy Christmas season, plainclothes police entered one of Hong Kong's big shopping arcades; protesters spotted them at once.
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She stalks him in video arcades; he invites her to meet him in a hotel bar to celebrate the removal of his braces.
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The longest network of walking arcades in the city, for example, runs from 51st Street to 57th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.
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Every time I've asked VR headset maker HTC why it was certain virtual reality would go big over the past few years, IMAX's arcades would inevitably come up — and when we finally visited the first actual arcades in Los Angeles and in Toronto, we were actually pretty impressed with their potential to introduce people to the wonders of VR gaming.
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A third of the way up, the 130-foot tower opens onto the rooftop of the arcades, offering a view of the courtyard below.
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Since then, it's focused on bringing Raw Data to other home VR platforms, including PlayStation VR later this month, and expanding to public arcades.
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It started out as just two mechanical horse rides on a department store rooftop but went on to pioneer game arcades and amusement parks.
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Bandai Namco develops the Mario Kart Arcade GP series under license from Nintendo — it's been a fixture of Japanese arcades for over a decade.
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Just like standard arcades, these gaming centers have first-person shooters and fighting rings, but they also offer more calm options—like 3D painting.
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It might be that we're playing it in small groups at tournaments, in dingy arcades or with the 150 or so players on Fightcade.
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With fresh foot traffic in London's shopping arcades, shopkeepers were desperate to secure new clientele, thus birthing the creative marketing strategy of window dressing.
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Pac-Man was simply the hottest thing around in the arcades, and we dreamed of playing it at home as much as we wanted.
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One of my favorite gaming experiences ever was hanging around arcades in the early '90s and playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time.
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At this point I'm pretty experienced with the HTC Vive VR headset, having used it at various trade shows and arcades and so on.
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The flâneur is also central to a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, called The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin.
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But certainly, when I think of Namco, I think of the 1980s, and arcades with stand-up cabinets, cigarette burn marks and sticky floors.
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The inspiration for the club's design came from the Palazzo Borghese, a palace in Rome known for its majestic facade and stunning courtyard arcades.
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Several more stamp shops are in the Passage des Panoramas, one of Paris's turn-of-the-19th-century covered arcades, in the Second Arrondissement.
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Its lower storeys, filled with arcades of shops, pancaked on top of each other before the entire U-shaped complex toppled in on itself.
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Damian Catani and Hélène Stafford, among others, have emphasized his awareness of everyday life: the poems contain references to theatre, dance halls, arcades, fairgrounds.
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Imax is planning a handful of VR theaters, and HTC is pushing to put its Vive headset in cafés and arcades all over the globe.
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That's been the tactic ever since Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney launched Computer Space in 1971 with the first coin-operated computer game for arcades.
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In the late 1920s, cultural critic Walter Benjamin had the arcades of Paris — glass-roofed pedestrian passageways lined with shops, which sliced through city blocks.
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In the early 1990s, companies large and small started mixing VR experiences with real-world attractions, putting a new spin on arcades and theme parks.
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In exchange for providing open-air arcades around their buildings, developers were permitted to construct more office area than zoning rules would have ordinarily allowed.
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There are eight Ready Player One experiences, which will be distributed for free through Steam and Viveport, as well as installed in some VR arcades.
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They came up with the idea, as they loved our food and are both arcade collectors who have traveled all around the US visiting arcades.
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MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries introduced me to the intriguing world of BattleTech, with its many adaptations across gaming, novels, cartoons, and of course high concept arcades.
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These include mass-produced clothing, shopping arcades, railroad stations, train cars, automobiles, panoramas, bookstores, kiosks, stalls, movie houses, and large palaces constructed for world's fairs.
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He can then resell them for a higher price to video arcades, collectors, or nostalgic individuals, who want their favorite childhood machine in their homes.
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The closest thing to pleasure in John's miserable life is palling around with his best friend, Shane (Will Poulter), playing video games and visiting amusement arcades.
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"While these demos look basic, Telegram games can be anything from simple arcades and puzzles to multiplayer 3.133D-shooters and real-time strategy games," it adds.
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With virtual reality arcades like Survios' in Torrance operating on one level and more highly immersive experiences like The Void and Baobab Studios operating on another.
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He played many Super Nintendo games at friends' houses or at unofficial "arcades," where he could pay by the hour to play a variety of consoles.
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I knew that over on the Boiler Room website, live-streaming cameras were transforming the dim mezzanines and arcades around me into virtual multi-media environments.
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Shift While most high school kids in the 1980's gathered in arcades and dance clubs in their spare time, Blue Nelson had a different hobby.
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Opening on March 17 at the Jewish Museum, The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin intends to reflect the sprawling text in both content and form.
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This time, the company is turning its showrooms into arcades and inviting owners to bring their family and friends to try it out through June 30.
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On the covered shotengai, or shopping streets, teenagers crammed into the arcades and cooed at the kittens up for adoption on the side of the road.
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According to that report, the amusement parks and arcades industry employed about 206,820 people in May 2018, the most recent period for which data is available.
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By the end of 1978, Taito had made $600 million in Japan and installed 100,000 Space Invader machines -- with some arcades dedicated solely to the game.
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Namco's "Pac-Man" became synonymous with the booming popularity of arcades in the 1980s, turning the titular character into one of the earliest video game mascots.
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I'd see arcades on TV shows and movies, but I very much doubt I ever stepped into one, for real, until I was seven or eight.
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The next time Pac-Man graced arcades, in 1996's Pac-Man Arrangement, he was once again restricted to skimming over the surface of each maze.
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Some twenty-five billion dollars has been spent to erect an array of office towers, condominiums, and shopping arcades in lower midtown, west of Tenth Avenue.
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There was no commercial movie theater—just a zoo with a handful of cages, several small video game arcades, and a skating rink that eventually closed.
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I fell in love with America as it was depicted in his music: the rattlesnake speedways, the dusty arcades and yes, even the New Jersey Turnpike.
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Hong Kong (CNN)China is taking steps to curb online gaming addiction by ordering arcades and computer cafes to deny access to minors outside public holidays.
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Taking these apart and examining their mechanisms, effects, and textures, Arcades notes how these technologies replicate, for any user, the time-suspending spatial configuration in dreams.
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Officials have begun an initiative to inspect arcades along New Jersey boardwalks, ensuring the house doesn't have an unfair advantage preventing players from bringing home a prize.
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But HTC's appeal to arcades and businesses opens up a path beyond trying to sell to individual consumers — and one that just might make them worth creating.
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I believe mixed reality arcades can be a huge boon for VR adoption, and I'm confident there will be profitable ventures created in these immersive arcade experiences.
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Virtuix decided to sell the Omni primarily to arcades instead of home consumers, and as costs climbed, it canceled all international Kickstarter backers' orders late last year.
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The game, Zero Wing, had actually been released in Japanese arcades a few years earlier, but its English-language release for Mega Drive featured a wonky translation.
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The mixture of cartoonishly big-headed ballers and high-speed 2v2 play was an instant sensation in '90s arcades and the consumer hardware it quickly spread to.
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In the VR world, Valve is mostly known for co-developing the HTC Vive, a powerful but bulky headset that seems predominantly destined for arcades and businesses.
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Initially, 3Dfx and its Voodoo technology were focused intently on the arcades, and the company's big debut came at the 1996 edition of the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
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The popularity of barcades — AKA bars-cum-arcades — have proven people still yearn for the days you could spend a whole day at the arcade with friends.
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The judge's order says the former "Glee" star has to stay at least 100 feet away from schools, parks, arcades and many other places of that sort.
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The illegal "slaphouses" in California—a police slang term, stemming from the noise of fingers hitting buttons—and arcades in Honolulu allegedly worked on the receipt model.
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Although HTC has made some nebulous statements about new VR hardware for arcades, it's relatively unlikely that we'll see a massively redesigned Vive in the near future.
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" Jerold S. Kayden, the founder and president of the Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space, acknowledged that "many of the Water Street arcades are of marginal quality.
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Years back, Lucas helped Minkel hone his natural gaming skills for advantage play and educated him in the strategy and benefits of sharing arcades as a group.
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On its face, that's really simple, but Sega found a lot of ways to make the game stand out in a competitive genre (for Japanese arcades anyway).
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As I talked about budgets and debt ceilings with the town's entrepreneurs my family walked under the city's sheltering arcades, appreciating the antique stores and the Tiramisù.
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There's a new game in town: Virtual reality (VR) arcades are popping up to let people experience the computer-generated worlds without having to buy a headset.
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Video arcades — those recreational arenas of illuminated screens and 33-bit soundtracks — have been fading from the cultural landscape since the end of the Donkey Kong '80s.
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Middle-class parents didn't want arcades in their towns, and Chuck E. Cheese was a response to that — a safe, respectable place that played to current anxieties.
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As far as health concerns go, there are already VR arcades out there and they usually have sanitary throwaway masks and wipe down the gear after each use.
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Skydance Interactive has already been working in virtual reality as well, showing off its upcoming title Archangel as part of the offerings at IMAX's new virtual reality arcades.
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This was the first time I had experienced VR since the mid-1990s with the days of the mega-arcades in London's Trocadero entertainment complex (now sadly defunct).
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There were probably thousands of people who played this game in arcades and in their living rooms who never even knew about what lurked down in the depths.
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Consumer-facing manifestations of VR landed in arcades in shopping malls and while the applications were largely goofy and gimmicky, the high visibility of the technology was there.
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In the small streets bordering the cathedral, surrounded by the fresh evening air, a giant group of us gets seated at Les Arcades, a restaurant by Tomas Ainciart.
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That's pretty much what you'll find in actual Japanese arcades these days as well, save for the smoky floor where hardcore fighting and shooting game enthusiasts hang out.
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The Void has been aiming to commoditize VR experiences in a way that doesn't rely on the renaissance of arcades or convincing movie theaters to convert free space.
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A few virtual reality arcades have opened across the US, and IMAX has promised to open a series of experience centers powered by Starbreeze and Acer's StarVR system.
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This documentary, directed by Kurt Vincent, recounts the golden years (the 1980s and early '90s) of New York City arcades, when teenagers slid countless quarters into video games.
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Dating back to the days of arcades, where communities weren't even capable of watching one another's matches very often, fighting games are inextricable from where they're being played.
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I didn't see Virtua Racing in the arcades themselves, but man, did I ever pore over screenshots of it in the pre-internet games press of the time.
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The disk format "shifted game design style from the single-session, quarter-draining economy of the arcades to the multi-session, exploratory play of home consoles," Altice said.
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By 1993, its sales were over $1.5 billion and by 1994, it had been played by over 25 million people in the U.S. at home and in arcades.
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A two-mile promenade, built in the late 1800s, reveals the town's resort-ier roots, complete with a family-run fudge shop, coin arcades and grande-dame hotels.
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The accessible southern terminus of Lake George, with kitschy arcades, wax museums and speedboats crowding the waterfront in the village of the same name, attracts the most tourists.
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Namco Bandai captured the essence of what made it work back then so well and smartly updated it for an environment beyond the arcades and beyond the quarters.
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Motorways, train stations and streets in downtown Auckland and Wellington were eerily silent on Thursday morning as people stayed indoors, while office towers and shopping arcades were shuttered.
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He was sitting next to a scale like those in old-fashioned arcades, where people could weigh themselves for the equivalent of 5 cents, although very few did.
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He plans to open at least four more this year in arcades, called Les Halles de Bacalan, that are being built by the developer Biltoki in southwestern France.
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The Arcade1Up version is supports just two players, which is still fun but not as brilliantly chaotic as the four-player version that was common in '80s arcades.
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But before all that, there was a largely forgotten game from the arcades (eventually released on PC and the Sega Saturn) named Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Operation Moongate.
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Seriously ... the dudes go from spa days to arcades to playing hide-and-seek ... and a bunch of live shots from Ultra Music Festival in Miami in between.
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The Void has already set a standard for custom-built locations, and IMAX has begun rolling out its own VR arcades, utilizing more off-the-shelf games and experiences.
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So he decided to fuse amusement parks and arcades into a new type of family-friendly gaming venue that wouldn't compete with businesses that were already buying Atari products.
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And then in some cases, like, we just did a research project a couple of months ago for a company called Room Scale that does pop-up VR arcades.
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In turn, without arcades in the world beyond Japan to practice in, and with many games released only on Japanese consoles, it becomes simply harder to access these games.
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The arcades of 19th-century Paris, though billed as free and open public spaces, were in reality just marketplaces for the materialization of commodity fetishism, mass spectacle, and desire.
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It's just one of many VR arcades and theme parks — although those aren't all doing great either, since IMAX shut down its VR location-based entertainment experiment in 2018.
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Spelling is all about celebrating her family, historically throwing her kids over-the-top parties to celebrate their birthdays with themes like unicorns, arcades, Rapunzel, Star Wars and more.
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Protecting lives, health and freedom will be of particular importance in video surveillance such as in shopping arcades, sports facilities, car parks as well as in buses and trains.
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For folks who don't own a headset and aren't interested in a Google Cardboard–like experience, more location-based VR is coming—think pop-up arcades for VR content.
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Amber Arcades' album is due out in the Spring and she'll be doing some dates around it which we've done the right thing by and stuck after the jump.
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The company is announcing eight pieces of virtual reality content, which will be available on the Vive and at IRL VR arcades, free to download on Viveport and Steam.
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There's another documentary to be made about the wide-ranging reasons for the nationwide disappearance of arcades — gentrification and the decline of malls; the rise of home gaming consoles.
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The Red Mosque is his most traditional, the forest of columns suggesting the infinitely receding arcades of, say, the famous mosque of Córdoba, Spain, built in the 10th century.
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It's important to note that this was in an era where arcades were still a relatively normal thing, and where most games had three or four colors, at most.
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You can see an action movie or a drama or a comedy ... You remember that Tom Cruise movie "Minority Report" where they had those arcades ... LS: Never saw it.
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One hazy morning last spring, Harry Schute, a retired Army colonel in his 50s with a Cheshire grin, walked through the monastery's heavy doors and along its shaded arcades.
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Despite being one of the longest streets in the world, and one of Toronto's main attractions, for decades downtown Yonge was better known for porn shops, doorway vendors, and arcades.
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" So he became interested in creating an out-of-home VR experience, but wasn't inspired by the existing VR arcades, which he said are "essentially commoditized — it's shooting a zombie.
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The passion of the community sprouted from the dark corners of arcades and laundromats, kids sitting at home grinding match-ups to beat their friends at the next meet-up.
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As for what else is out there, here are some of our highlights... Tekken 7 has existed in playable form since March 33 when it started appearing in Japanese arcades.
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It was rolled out globally in fall 2016, and it later launched a section for public arcades, which could get access to games while paying royalties to developers through Viveport.
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I want to go to the arcade and... I mean, I want to do tandem VR mask adventures with him, because real young people don't go to arcades anymore, daddio!
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But especially as games transported from the arcades to the home, and there was no longer an ever-present opponent with which to compare one's scores, points grew increasingly marginalized.
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But good on Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor — a known lover of arcades — for perfectly summing up all this niche video game lore into a single, three-minute music video.
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After a long decline it closed in 1965 and was gutted, before its formerly palatial interior was filled with tacky video arcades and tourist shops selling cut-price knick-knacks.
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A brief look at the IMAX VR ticketing page reveals that a number of time slots for VR experiences are selling out, which is a good indicator for future arcades.
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The Jewish Museum's new exhibition is based on Walter Benjamin's enormous and uncompleted Arcades Project, also known as Passagenwerk, which he worked on from 1927 until his death in 1940.
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Far away from the glitz and glamor the e-sports circuit, a different breed of semi-professional gamers is eking out an honest day's work at arcades around the globe.
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One that spreads by word-of-mouth, until middle-aged couples who wouldn't normally be caught dead in VR arcades find themselves lining up to try this hot new thing.
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Many days, I feel like my mind has become one of those crane hands you see at arcades and truck stops, grasping arthritically at the air above the sunken prizes.
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In the first room, Zak Bagans has set up an animatronic version of himself housed behind a glass case, like the "Zoltar" machines found in many arcades along many boardwalks.
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You can navigate nearly the whole of central Turin via a network of marble and stone arcades, whose covered arches permit window shopping and outdoor espressos even on rainy days.
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Hamstrung by a shrinking economy, population and tax base, Japan is pushing to boost tourism through "integrated resorts" - Las Vegas-style complexes that include casinos, shopping arcades and conference centres.
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It is now one of eight arcades owned by the Portobello Group, the area's biggest private landlord, and has been turned into an open-plan gallery selling mass-produced souvenirs.
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In exchange for projects like larger office towers, there are more than 500 shady plazas, extra-wide sidewalks and pedestrian arcades in the city, known as privately owned public spaces.
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The result is a delightful mix of order and chaos at the stellar surface: Huge loops of magnetic field trap the sun's glowing plasma in long filaments and grand arcades.
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The game was introduced to arcades in 2003, and enjoyed an awesome conversion to the original Xbox, courtesy of British studio Sumo Digital, the best part of a year later.
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Atari founder Nolan Bushnell created Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre in San Jone, California, in 1977 after realizing that arcades were making more money off his games than he was.
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Finally, all dates given for games are for when they arrived on the Atari 8-bit computer platform, not when they were first released in arcades or on another computer platform.
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But once arcades left my life, the bulk of the games I played (and loved) were the ones that explored the breadth and occasional messiness encouraged by console and PC games.
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For the last couple of years, I've been telling any VR company I meet that to truly take the technology mainstream, they need to move beyond mobile to virtual reality arcades.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)There isn't a video game from the heyday of arcades you can't play on a home console (or even your phone) now.
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Maybe it's due to my lack of experience with arcades, but I've never seen a mini-bowling alley where you can play ten rounds of mini bowling for just a pound.
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He grew up playing classic video games like Pac-Man while it was still in arcades, and started seriously collecting games, including Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games, in the year 2000.
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Directly inside the cemetery's second gate, in the old arcades, next to the tombs of prominent Viennese families, Mr. Mishima has found a place to house the urns of music lovers.
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"When his meager wages were exhausted, he'd play chess against all comers in arcades for a dollar a match (he was a brilliant player) to fund his outings," Mr. Rich wrote.
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Last January, police arrested dozens of alleged members of the Spada family, the clan authorities say runs extortion rackets controlling lucrative beach concessions, restaurants and gaming arcades as well as drug trafficking.
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I think I first saw it when I stopped in one of Kamurocho's arcades and played a few games of Space Harrier (Yakuza 0 is set in 1988, so expect contemporary distractions).
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The developer released the first entry in the Project Diva rhythm game series on the PSP in Japan in 2009, and has since expanded with multiple releases on consoles and in arcades.
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The group's rules require the use of an original circuit board from a Donkey Kong machine of the type once plentiful in video arcades, where people played for a quarter a game.
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" While the firm's boss didn't pinpoint any particular countries, he mentioned visiting Japan, where "you still have these massive arcades which are full of people going in and playing these classic games.
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A guy named Allan Bruck, billed as a big-time distributor of arcade hardware in America, made a comment that predicted the direction arcades would head in far more accurately than Keenan.
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In the city, his face is spread across the sides of an office building, with birthday banners hanging from the semi-enclosed shopping arcades that are a feature of every Japanese city.
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This means they can be commercially licensed for public Vive installations at movie theaters, internet cafes, or full VR arcades like Viveland, a flagship location that HTC opened in Taiwan last week.
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I'm old enough to remember when arcades were a thing, a room you could find at every mall, a section of every greasy pizza joint, the most fun place at any hotel.
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The golden mile, which is the seafront, down where the circus is, where all the arcades and all the tiny sort of beach stuff is—a lot of that is closed down.
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It's also 80's themed, and to my delight and surprise, featured several things I'm not afraid of at all — like Ghostbusters, retro video arcades and the adorable kids from Stranger Things.
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Most of the Disney resorts feature their own arcades, a great entertainment option for days when it's rainy, too hot, or you simply need a break from the frenzy of the parks.
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This potential forms the thesis behind twin iterations of Benjamin's essay, "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1935 & 1937), his overview of the mountain range that became known as The Arcades Project.
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I think there will be arcade VR and living-room VR in Japan, but the far more real world, social experiences around VR gaming will come from the arcades, not the living room.
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Phone-based augmented reality has started regularly showing up on apps like Snapchat, YouTube, and, of course, Pokémon Go. And virtual reality has found a reliable niche in gaming, film festivals, and arcades.
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Two friends and roommates are DDR heads — they spend all their loose change at arcades and have a set of pads at home — and they see what's going on literally outside their window.
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The scene has kind of matured and grown up to a point where we can do things [like the Capcom Cup], but the roots of this stuff was very much in the arcades.
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The teenagers who were hooked on Pac-Man in the arcades and amusement parks of the early 250s are getting ready for retirement, but many of them have never stopped playing video games.
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When signs reading " FIXED PRICE " began to appear in Delhi's shopping arcades—mainly to fend off inveterate bargain hounds like him—he saw it as a symbol of the impending end of civilization.
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Jobs in the industry tend to be lower-paying than average: The median annual wage in the amusement parks and arcades industry was $23,640, far below the median across all industries of $38,640.
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The diverse community can be credited to inexpensive arcades and individual competition that lowers the barrier of entry for players, compared to other team-oriented games that require an expensive computer to compete.
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Technōs Japan's Double Dragon might have been amongst the first side-scrolling beat 'em ups in arcades, and later available on a plethora of home systems, but the 1987 game was quickly outclassed.
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Wong said he grew tired of relying on team managers to negotiate with sponsorsWong's career began in the arcades of New York City, long before esports grew into a multi-million-dollar industry.
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DeSantis issued an executive order on Friday directing all beaches, movie theaters, concert houses, auditoriums, playhouses, bowling alleys, arcades, gymnasiums and fitness studios to close in Palm Beach County and neighboring Broward County.
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When marketing people create fake arcades and fake video stores to promote movies part of the appeal is that these are businesses that were once common and now exist primarily in our memories.
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Though it's mainly for commercial and enterprise use — it'll probably pop up in some VR arcades — we hope all of the tech crammed inside of the headset trickles down to consumer headsets eventually.
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Japan is planning to approve the construction of several integrated resorts - Las Vegas-style complexes that include casinos, shopping arcades and conference centres - to boost tourism after the Tokyo Olympics end in August.
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Japan is planning to approve the construction of several integrated resorts - Las Vegas-style complexes that include casinos, shopping arcades and conference centres - to boost tourism after the Tokyo Olympics end in August.
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Yokey Pokey is one of eight VR arcades that have sprung up in New York over the past few years, though there are other venues that offer VR as part of their activities.
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Really worth checking out are Melbourne-based Zero Latency VR's mixed reality zombie survival crossover with Sega Live Creations at the Yokohama Joypolis theme park or Bandai Namco's VR Gundam Wing arcades in Odaiba.
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The community, borne from grassroots in the arcades and convenience stores, represents something greater for these players, an intangible connection to each other and to a scene that persists through every frame of lag.
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Arcades may be a relic of the past, but as virtual reality grows more interactive, Nomadic wants to capture cinema-goers' attention and excitement in a way that they will be able to feel.
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He winds through the primitively dark streets of New York City, 1973, trembling in the rain-speckled windows, the lurid lights of downtown nightclubs and the seedy arcades of Times Square blinking and blurry.
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The game was first announced as an exclusive for Japanese arcades, but now Nintendo is now bringing it to the rest of the world with a version for the Wii U on March 18th.
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"It's something that is achievable in the coming months," Niel said in an interview with Reuters on the site, dubbed Station F, which plans to house 21,20.8748 start-ups under its 1920s glass arcades.
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Here are all the occupations with at least 1,000 employees in the amusement parks and arcades industry, ranked from lowest to highest median annual wage, along with the number of people employed in each.
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On top of that, there's the question of monetization: "Free to play" means a lot of different things, and in arcades, Border Break made a lot of money through enticing, gameplay-altering loot boxes.
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It's been the best decision he could have made for us and converted me, someone who much preferred the novelty and casual fun of arcades to home game systems, into an at-home gamer.
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But the Peachtree Center in Atlanta was a spectacular success: 21976 blocks of office towers, hotels and shopping arcades opened in 22011 with the Merchandise Mart, a wholesale complex that lured hordes of buyers.
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I can remember drooling over mini tabletop arcades in catalogs, but never actually putting them on my Christmas or birthday wish lists for fear of maxing out what my parents were willing to spend.
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If films became available for home rental sooner than they currently are — and all signs point to this happening eventually — then perhaps turning movie theaters into roller coasters, or VR arcades, becomes the way forward.
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Some of these Rifts would end up running heavy-duty simulators or design tools, while others could make their way into location-based entertainment like arcades, running games people wouldn't expect to play at home.
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Mizuguchi says he grew up playing Tetris in Tokyo arcades, and when Sony first announced the PSP back in 2004, he thought it would be the perfect platform for a musical take on the game.
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VW's company town is a social democratic utopia: kilometres of red-brick factory stretching along the beautifully landscaped banks of the River Aller, mingling with chrome-and-steel shopping arcades, lakes and modern apartment blocks.
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Posted 03 July 2016 In the late 1800 and early 1900s, coin-op machines began were finding their way into bars, saloons and shops, and coin-op arcades were popular destinations in many major cities.
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Beat Games CEO Jaroslav Beck says the title's success is "dope," but he's more concerned with ensuring he doesn't leave anything on the table, whether that's expansion into esports or arcades or the fitness market.
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The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin will be appropriately multifaceted, with artworks "representing the subjects of each of the book's thirty-six chapters," architectural models, appropriated texts, and materials from Benjamin's archive in Berlin.
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It is a laborious task; on an afternoon in the arcades and Puerto Rican cafés of Kissimmee, with one of Mrs Clinton's registration teams, no one was added to the electoral roll except Ms Oller.
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Neither can imagine a time when they stop going to arcades, and are heartened by the few advantage players they know in younger generations, but both seem to acknowledge their glory days are behind them.
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"VR arcades," are growing in number, and they seem like an obvious fit with the recent upsurge of immersive theater such as Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return, and The Latitude.
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Gay bars—alongside the few other places where cruising is alive today, like porn arcades or bathhouses—offer safe places to connect with one another in that intimate way, and we should fight their decline.
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When arcades began to surround his bucolic hiding spots, he aimed to reconcile his love of nature with his love of gaming, and that's when his then-fanzine, Game Freak, would start its Pokémon journey.
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On my second morning in Rome, Josephus's text in hand, I stood by the railing near the Forum ticket booth and peered down at the ongoing excavations of the temple's sanctuary, arcades, fountains and gardens.
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A combined dining-and-living area flows into a Grand Balcony, where guests can enjoy private dinners with views of the Victorian-era amusement park Tivoli Gardens' twinkling lights and scenic, restaurant-lined arcades below.
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The doctor is hiding in a European city, full of 19th-century buildings and arched arcades and grand squares; it can, like a lot of old cities, even look like Istanbul sometimes if you squint.
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Knucklez also makes money by embracing the one strength that arcades will always have over home consoles: the opportunity to play in public, "show off" for a live crowd, and be applauded for one's ability.
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Throughout Kamurocho, there are arcades full of games including the on-rails zombie shooter called Kamuro of the Dead, Virtua Fighter, Puyo Puyo, and little UFO catcher games where you can try to grab plushie prizes.
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As a capital-intensive business, I see three main obstacles that can make mixed reality arcades a challenging investment for early-stage VCs, but a great opportunity for China or mega-corps like Disney or Comcast.
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The world of fighting games has always been more inclusive than the larger esports landscape in certain ways: racial diversity is a hallmark of the scene, due in large part to its roots in urban arcades.
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Arcade1Up Street Fighter II Machine — $249.00 See Details Asteroids took arcades by storm in 20183 with its thrilling adventure through space in a shooting defense game where you must prevent rogue asteroids from destroying your ship.
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It's not a device for everyone, but as enthusiasm for VR arcades and other location-based entertainment grows, it could be the place where your new favorite VR art project or theme park attraction is born.
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For now, she says Fove is aiming at selling to developers and public installations like arcades; headsets are apparently being installed in 7,000 Korean and Japanese internet cafes next February in an attempt to kickstart development.
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Mario Kart GP VR will be Nintendo's first foray into this generation of VR — RIP, Virtual Boy — but just because the game will be featured in arcades doesn't mean it will eventually come to home consoles.
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It shows the lineage of gaming from arcades through to the Sega Megadrive, underground pay-per-play sessions in the 2000s, the Wii, then the Fuze 1 as the modern day equivalent in the family home.
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Tiny Arcades, brought to life by Super Impulse in its line of World's Smallest products, are pocket-sized arcade cabinets featuring equally miniature versions of classic arcade games complete with tiny joysticks and even tinier buttons.
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The cramped downtown institution is among the last of the city's old-school arcades, often filled with gamers too young to remember Street Fighter IV a decade ago, let alone Missile Command in the Reagan years.
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"Rome is full of people sleeping under the arcades, on the streets, under the bridges, but no one looks at them, so who cares?" she said, standing infront of the baroque facade of the Santi Apostoli Basilica.
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Hammerson, a property developer responsible for some of Britain's best-known shopping centres, including Brent Cross in London and the Bullring in Birmingham, spent £3.4bn ($4.6bn) to buy Intu, which operates Lakeside in Essex and other arcades.
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But when Rudy Giuliani cleaned up Midtown under his mayorship, many of the arcades there floundered due to skyrocketing rent, which left a niche for the relatively out-of-the-way spot in lower Manhattan to fill.
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Whatever dark magic Nintendo cast to make a tiny NES has apparently also produced the opposite — a giant human-sized console, free to roam around the arcades and alleys of Japan with two smaller controllers in tow.
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And at one of her favorite restaurants, Les Arcades in Biot, the restaurant's chef, Mimi Brothier, has been making many of the same dishes since the restaurant opened in the 1960s as a canteen for local artists.
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She chose an area in the outskirts called Tor Fiscale, then a shantytown inhabited mostly by postwar refugees, some living in makeshift homes in the arcades of the ancient Roman aqueducts that still crisscross the countryside there.
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" The notion that the shopping mall is an environment of insidious control and dangerous distraction has inspired many artistic critiques, from Walter Benjamin's "The Arcades Project" to Dan Graham's video "Death by Chocolate: West Edmonton Shopping Mall.
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There have been exhibitions on video games before, most surveying their rise from arcades to virtual reality, or trying to convince audiences that games have artistic merit and deserve to be in museums in the first place.
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When Gibson was starting to write, in the late nineteen-seventies, he watched kids playing games in video arcades and noticed how they ducked and twisted, as though they were on the other side of the screen.
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Oddly, Chinatown Fair only found its footing in the 1990s, at a time when arcades around the city (remember Playland, in Times Square?) were dying off as people became increasingly able to game without leaving the house.
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And since no one is allowed to simply pay us, we watch tens of millions of dollars flow into lavish athletic facilities that stand as pharaoh-shaming monuments of excess, complete with bowling alleys, barber shops, and arcades.
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Experience center-based VR, including theatres and VR Arcades, made up over 10% of the market in 2016 — RMB 359.84 million ($55.4 million) — and that figure is expected to increase to RMB 5.2 billion ($800 million) by 2021.
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It's easy to reductively summarize arcades as simply places where you once paid to play games, but that misses so much about "the arcade" as a very unique sort of gaming platform, with its own constraints and biases.
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Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro hails the operation as the latest blow in his ongoing crackdown on a chain of gambling arcades, and hands down 414 felony indictments on nine individuals—initiating the largest anti-gambling case in state history.
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Bay Area brothers Tom and Tony Cannon and their friends Joey Cuellar and Seth Killian spent the 1990s putting on underground tournaments in local arcades, but in 73 they shipped off to Vegas for something a little bigger.
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Asset World Corp, the hospitality arm of TCC Group, which owns office buildings, luxury hotels and shopping arcades, plans to launch a $1 billion-$1.5 billion IPO in the second half of the year, IFR reported in January.
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In the skyscraper-studded city of Dubai, a global business and travel hub in the United Arab Emirates, authorities announced on Sunday that all movie theaters, arcades and gyms would be closed through the end of the month.
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On a fall morning at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, one of the first built in Egypt by its Muslim conquerors, in 879, a friend and I strolled across the vast courtyard and through the arched arcades surrounding it.
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But many period details have been preserved, including beautiful stone mosaics in a large central courtyard surrounded by arcades, which are suggestive of the covered walkways called portici that hug miles of boulevards and vast piazzas around the city.
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There, among walkways and arcades especially designed for thinking, Euclid came to formulate his theorems; Eratosthenes to measure the circumference of the Earth; and Herophilos to prove that the brain, not the heart, was the seat of the intellect.
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"Donkey Kong" was a hit in the arcades, and "Super Mario Bros" ushered in the home-console revolution—but "Legend of Zelda", released in 1986 in Japan and a year later in North America, was fundamentally new and different.
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Those controls felt far more clicky and stiff than the joysticks and buttons on the arcades we remembered playing as kids, but they still felt far more natural than using simulated on-screen controls to play these classic titles.
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The hype wave from the launch of at-home VR dissipated some time ago, and the industry focus has increasingly turned toward location-based solutions like the IMAX VR arcades that the company is currently piloting at movie theaters.
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"The public could hear those new, fabulous toe-tapping tunes anytime they wished: In arcades, theatre lobbies, cafes, ice cream parlors…and anywhere the public could easily be separated from their loose change," said the Morris Museum's Jeremie Ryder.
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Initially, however, the focus is on more affordable devices like Google's Cardboard project, but Graphic India is actively exploring the possibility for higher-end devices, which are becoming popular as 'VR arcades' within shopping malls and other public places.
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The arcades of Xbox Live on 360 brought us all of these things and more, setting up the console as a provider of memories, an instigator of friendship, and linesman in the world of healthy, good old fashioned competition.
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The de Blasio administration will give the owners of 17 enormous office towers in Lower Manhattan a chance to fill in the public arcades along their buildings' ground floors and turn a shadowy, windswept realm into moneymaking retail space.
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Where else could you have your ears pierced with a glorified staple gun, challenge strangers to Street Fighter matches in dim arcades, consume untold quantities of Orange Julius and brood over low-rise jeans in department-store fitting rooms?
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Imax has also opened virtual-reality locations that offer multiple experiences — like the video arcades of yesteryear — and a start-up called Dreamscape Immersive, run by a former Disney executive, plans to unveil virtual reality experiences in the fall.
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Created as part of Super Impulse's "World's Smallest" brand (which includes everything from minute Hot Wheels cars to miniature Barbie dolls) these Tiny Arcades are designed to be sold as impulse items at toy store checkout aisles at just $503 each.
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It seemed a good time to refresh my perspective on a place I'd just spent years writing about, so I decided to seek out guys willing to talk about their experiences at arcades in the "Men Seeking Men" section of Craigslist.
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But things haven't exactly worked out that way, and in 2017, all eyes are now on location-based VR. Whether in movie theaters or custom arcades, VR installations are seen as an opportunity to will a functioning VR ecosystem into existence.
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Dream Arcades currently has less than 30 of the monitors left in stock and once that's gone, they'll no longer be able to perfectly replicate the experience of arcade games like Donkey Kong or Pac-Man as they were originally intended.
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YouTuber A Pyro Design realized that if you print a series of sequential images on the arms of a spinner and let it fly, you end up with a miniature zoetrope, a staple of old-timey penny arcades the world over.
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If you grew up in the late '90s and early aughts, amid 'zza-scented food courts and blinging arcades — and, crucially, you had cable or at least one friend with cable — you're probably familiar with these seminal shows from MTV's heyday.
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While the US market has yet to appear very amenable to a second coming of the arcade, HTC has already begun seeing success in China where there are currently over 3000 VR-focused arcades where gamers pay per minute for content.
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Street Fighter V came out worldwide this week, and I've liked my time with it, but I can't help feeling a little sad that it's the first major game in the series not to see release in the arcades first.
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I'd much rather see Dlodlo put the idea on hold and focus on developing something like a light custom headset for arcades, where a smaller software catalog and lack of support for existing platforms would be less of an issue.
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When computer gaming in cafes, malls and arcades - think Pong and Space Invaders - gave way to more solitary games often played on a bedroom desktop or console, Miyamoto has said he became concerned that gamers were turning into anti-social "zombies".
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He loves spending time with his grandmother in the seaside town—with its tatty amusement arcades, plentiful ice-cream shops, and bracing sea air—that I was so desperate to escape when I was barely older than he is now.
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In arcades and malls, Virtuality pods let people play short VR games (remember Dactyl Nightmare?); in living rooms, Nintendo called its 3-D videogame system "Virtual Boy," conveniently ignoring the fact that the headsets delivered headaches rather than actual VR.
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It's worth playing today for nostalgia—after all, many of us played this cartridge to death anyway, because it was the one we had—and certainly as a historical curiosity for those who weren't around for the golden age of arcades.
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I went to a real, bona-fide, actual arcade this weekend for the first time in years (the first time in America for several years, as in 2015, I had the pleasure of checking out a couple of arcades in Japan).
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The Catholic charity Caritas estimated late last year that there are more than 16,000 homeless in Rome and their number congregating near the Vatican has grown visibly in recent years, especially at night when they cluster under arcades to sleep.
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Cafes have a mix of regular tables and sit-down "cocktail" video game cabinets (sadly unplayable), just as they did in the late '70s and 80s—many arcade games were marketed to cafes and other casual eateries as well as arcades.
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The 34,000-square meter site, a stone's throw away from the river Seine, plans to house 1,000 start-ups under its 1920s glass arcades, as well as 3-D printing labs and bars and restaurants open 24 hours a day.
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DUBAI, March 15 (Reuters) - Gulf Arab states expanded measures to contain the spread of coronavirus on Sunday with Oman banning open ship-to-ship transfers with Iranian vessels, Abu Dhabi's bourse closing trading halls and Dubai shuttering cinemas, gyms and arcades.
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MAASTRICHT, THE NETHERLANDS — The Dutch violinist André Rieu, known by many as the "King of the Waltz," is constructing what looks like the garden of a monk's cloister, with marble arches and sandstone arcades, next to his 17th-century castle here.
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So they went out, to parks and dance halls, saloons and restaurants, nickelodeons and penny arcades—to the streets themselves, teeming centers of working-class social life—where they could have a good time and meet men on their own.
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Anti-gambling protesters gathered outside the exhibition in the port city, which is among the Japanese cities expected to bid for government licences to open "integrated resorts," or Las Vegas-style complexes that include casinos, shopping arcades and conference centres.
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For $20 a pop, these Tiny Arcades probably aren't the best way to experience classic games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders, but they're fun little throwbacks to the era of coin-operated gaming that look pretty cool on a desk.
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Video games were popularized decades ago in public arcades, where kids and adults alike spent many hours and quarters playing titles like "Galaga," "Contra, Donkey Kong," and "Pac-Man" on bulky standing machines with built-in joysticks and flickering CRT monitors.
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If Walter Benjamin saw the arcades of France as the last refuge of the flâneur, the department stores of New York were the refuge of those who wanted, for a moment, to pretend they were enjoying the life of the flâneur.
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Dream Arcades, the largest producer of non-coin-operated arcade machines in the world, says that the last company that was producing the displays sold its manufacturing equipment to an unnamed Chinese company that was unable to replicate the required winding procedures.
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Their study, published in the May 22013 issue of the journal Clinical Pediatrics, looked at fixed-site rides, such as those at major amusement parks, as well as mobile rides, which included rides at local carnivals, state fairs and shopping mall arcades.
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Nomadic VR is focusing the majority of its attention on the U.S. market for the time being, saying that while China has shown a hunger for VR content, the stuff that is being shown off in VR arcades is often lacking in quality.
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I moved to Japan right around the time Street Fighter IV hit arcades for the first time, and I have fond memories of getting repeatedly beaten by total strangers while being excited to play a game that you couldn't play anywhere else.
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Capcom's Street Fighter II devastated the arcades of the time, in its native Japan and abroad, but it was when the game switched to home consoles (and computers, but the less said about those versions, the better) when its legend was guaranteed.
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The catch phrase is location-based VR, and while that's largely been used to describe VR arcades or theme-park-style installations, Taylor took the show as an opportunity to introduce another option in the form of a pod called the VenueVR Gateway.
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The arcades were constructed from the 1960s through the 1980s under an abandoned and discredited zoning theory that imagined Water Street, near the southern tip of Manhattan Island, benefiting from covered pedestrian walkways like those on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris.
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There are plenty of nostalgic activities (like arcades and rides at Central Pier), as well as traditional must eats on the boardwalk for less than $10, like fudge at Steel's Fudge, taffy at Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy and famous funnel cakes at Vanina's.
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When Levi Bussanich, the owner of Taboo and the man behind the suit, took the bait and came over for a tour, the suit claims he was shown several video arcades––places where customers could insert cash and watch porn inside the store.
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While arcade games have seen a resurgence presence in bars, transforming them into adult playgrounds, arcades featuring Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Street Fighter no longer exist as a standard venue for children to spend hours feeding quarters into machines after school.
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In a kind of trance we walked the town's maze of blue-domed mosques, mosaic-tiled courtyards and former caravanserais (essentially inns where travelers could rest with their animals), all threaded together by ancient arcades only partially defiled by tacky tourist development.
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What I hadn't appreciated was how much Tintoretto's dynamism drew from an experience of life in Venice you can still have in 2018: the shimmering of the canals, the winding back streets, the low-slung arcades, the continual sensation of being lost.
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Skip the chaos and check out Little Collins Street, one block away, one of Melbourne's many laneways — the Aussie term for side streets, inner alleys, and arcades — that are chock-full of funky, independent boutiques, many showcasing the works of Australian designers.
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Longing for the days of the sticky floored arcades of your youth and long nights spent with the Atari 2600, but can't be bothered to dig through your mum's basement to find all the bits and bobs to throw yourself into a retro-gaming binge?
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Pricing and availability haven't been finalized yet, but you can expect to find these tiny arcades in stores later this year, priced to be an impulse purchase while you're waiting in line at the checkout and find yourself reminiscing about your Space Invaders days.
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"Street Fighter II allowed for head-to-head battles between human opponents, instantly attracting spectators and generating fierce tournament play in arcades across the world," said Jeremy Saucier, assistant director of The Strong's International Center for the History of Electronic Games, in a press release.
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One Florida law proved so broad that Disney World removed its ticket redemption games and claw machines in case they fell afoul of the police, and arcades like Dave and Busters argued that the law disallowed legitimate arcade systems like added-value swipe cards.
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They are on sidewalks, along private buildings, and in the city's network of more than 550 privately owned public spaces — plazas, arcades, atriums — that are required to be open to the public by their owners in return for the right to build larger towers.
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Battlezone, which launches alongside Sony's PlayStation VR headset in October, is an all-action affair—as you might expect, given it's a reboot of a game from 1980 that you used to find standing up in bars, social clubs, and, naturally, sticky-floored arcades.
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"Chinatown Fair should have closed years ago, along with all the other arcades in the city, due to rising rent and the shift to online gaming," said Kurt Vincent, who directed "The Lost Arcade," a 2016 documentary about the arcade's enduring legacy in the city.
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Oddly enough, one of the few things Rick admits didn't play Doom were arcades, despite a memorable convenience store shootout in the Grosse Point Blank where a true-blue baseball capped 90s slacker plays Doom 2, oblivious to the actual hyper-violence surrounding him.
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As a condition of his supervised release he will be registered as a sex offender -- and also will not be allowed to live within view of school yards, parks, public swimming pools, playgrounds, video arcades, or any other places frequented by people under age 18.
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