Decline of the Arcade Industry

Over the past 30 years, the Arcade industry had grown dramatic and was now thanks to realises like donkey kong (1981) and pacman (1980). The industry around this time was worth 8 billion this was mostly due to that fact that game consoles weren't able to provide the level of graphics,sound quality or the atmosphere that came with going with few friends and playing against them.

This slowly began to change with the start of the fifth era of game consoles, often refered to as the 32 bit era but basicly the arcade machines were no longer able to give a better level of quality so people were beginning to see that it was cheaper to buy a console with lots of games instead of putting coins in a single machine for a short go on a single game.That was the fall of the Arcade machine simplely because they weren't able to compete with the cheaper option of the nintendo 64,sony playstation and the sega saturn.





The only reason that the Arcade industry didnt go completely bust was because of the features that had been added to make it feel more real such as cockpit controls, big car shaped boxes, and specialized controls for the games.