The Death of the Arcade Game

Anybody any small business Entrepreneur could open an arcade because all of those manufacturers had programs where they would give you these machines on credit. You could pay them back in quarters if you wanted to but like you said when you couldn't tell what game was good and what game Was badBecause the marketing and the graphics and everything made it look so cool No matter how bad the game was That you would end up with a room full of duds and all of a sudden all your customers are gone. So those 13,000 arcades just drip down to very very few by the mid 80s. And I bet you  a lot of those arcade owners weren't like Really into the games