Good Video Arcades in NYC? (New York, Union: crime, home, middle school)
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I was wondering if someone knows of some good video arcade places in nyc? Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens preferably. There was a really awesome one called Chinatown Arcade a few years back, but that closed down, and since I haven't really found anything. Dave and Busters has a lot of flashy stuff, but I'm looking for something simpler....then there's Barcade in Brooklyn, but that's really really old game.
I was looking for something with a bit of Streeet Fighter, maybe Marvel vs Capcom...stuff like that. Want to show a visiting friend some place, but after Chinatown Arcade closed down, I'm out of ideas.
Try Yelp. I knew of 2 arcades in Queens, but I recently found out they both closed down.. Made me sad as it brought back some elementary - middle school memories which was a few years ago. Haven't gone to any arcade since then so I'm not much help.. Good luck on your search.
The age of arcades in NYC, and to a lesser extent in the U.S, has long passed. Apart from the usual culprits (gentrification, the stigma of arcades being havens for crime and delinquency), the modern tech in contemporary home consoles as well as online gaming drove a nail into the coffin that was the arcade industry. Operating an arcade nowadays is both expensive and unprofitable, and it pains me to write that because I was a big NYC arcade hound during my childhood and teen years. Up until the early 2000's, you could find arcade machines in the most unlikeliest of places...bodegas, liquor stores, shoe stores, local restaurants, hell even on a street corner, as if it were a drug dealer or something, lol. Chinatown Fair (pre-shutdown) was virtually the last old-school arcade left in the city, and it's closing marked the end of an era. What's there today is Chinatown Fair in name only.
Wish I had been old enough to visit those legendary NYC arcades like Playland and Broadway Arcade...
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