Building Your Own Arcade Pt. 1: Types of Arcade Games

With its significant presence in the gaming industry over the past few decades, the arcade variant of video games has certainly received hundreds, if not thousands of worthy titles under its belt. This huge variety of options at the hands of the users can seem intimidating to some, especially the newcomers to this magnificent world that wish to start a collection or open their very first arcade machine business with the best games, but are completely stumped about which titles to start with.

Speaking of which; despite arcade’s decline due to the dominance of console and PC gaming, starting your very own arcade gaming business is still a sound investment. Did you know that, from 2006 to 2010, the revenues from the sales of coin-operated arcade video games in the United States amounted to $868.6 million? While this is not much compared to the video game industry’s revenues as a whole ($91.8 billion in 2015), there’s still quite a lot of money to be had. Of course, in order to grab a slice from the profit cake, you need to actually know what you’re doing. This translates to conditioning your arcade with the right machines, and the perfect theme to lure potential customers through the doors, and onto your machines; providing you with plenty of income for your troubles.

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