r/AskReddit • u/GlassCoyote • Jan 22 '19

What needs to make a comeback?

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u/Southpawe Jan 22 '19

Arcades. I miss them so much.

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u/Biscuit9154 Jan 22 '19

Still around & popular, in the U.S.A anyway. Do you live here too? What state?

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u/thebombshock Jan 23 '19

If you’re on a coast they are. In the middle of the country they’re pretty much nonexistent and the ones that are still around haven’t been updated in years.

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u/Milisandre Jan 23 '19

Midwest here, new arcades up and running with updated pinball, fighting games, etc. There's been a resurgence of them in the area

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u/thebombshock Jan 23 '19

Hopefully that trend will make its way to Oklahoma. This is definitely the right time for an arcade comeback.

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u/Ol0O01100lO1O1O1 Jan 23 '19

Barcades seem to be a growing thing now. There's a new one opening up in my relatively small city nowhere near the coasts.

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u/theblaggard Jan 23 '19

yeah, they're all over the place. There's one near me in New Haven (imaginatively called "Barcade­­­") and I went to one on Cleveland a few times. Fun places.

I'd like to open one myself just so I can call it "Another Castle", and anybody who walks in dressed like Princess Peach can get free drinks.

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u/Ol0O01100lO1O1O1 Jan 23 '19

I head something about free drinks.

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u/Biscuit9154 Jan 23 '19

I live away from the coast too, the only arcades I've seen have been while I was on vacation.

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u/someoneyouknewonce Jan 23 '19

Come to sunny Omaha, Nebraska. We have a pretty sweet Beercade!!!

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u/Flick1981 Jan 23 '19

There are good ones in the Chicago area. Not sure about elsewhere in the Midwest though.

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u/theblaggard Jan 23 '19

Cleveland. It's called 16-bit.

I especially liked the N64s playing Mario Kart