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Post by vampiroporvida on Apr 24, 2022 21:56:20 GMT -5
Hello all, we finally got a new arcade opened in my area, but wowzers have prices to play even basic things like skeeball and candy cranes gone through the roof, not to mention real arcade games and claws. It costs one dollar to play skeeball here, and that is the cheapest game in the place. Back 15 years ago, it was a quarter. I get inflation, but even the ticket to money ratio that you can even win is awful. Stuff is pricing folks out of fun.
Are yall feeling this way too? I hear deal days help, but this place doesn't really do those, and they pack their cranes tightly and under-ticket jackpots for how much stuff costs in the redemption center. A small plush is 600-1450 tickets. Big ones are ridiculous.....
Have yall found any better ways to stretch your money at these arcades?
Cheers.
VPV
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Post by ¡Twist Of Cinnamon! on Apr 24, 2022 23:50:56 GMT -5
They're mainly in cinemas over here and if I'm waiting for a movie then I'll check them out. Prices have certainly increased over the years. The basketball games are nearly $3. Even racing and Street Fighter games are around the $2.50 range. I remember a few years back, me and the misuss put $50 each on our cards and within 20 minutes, we had blown through $100.
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Post by vampiroporvida on Apr 25, 2022 8:07:44 GMT -5
They're mainly in cinemas over here and if I'm waiting for a movie then I'll check them out. Prices have certainly increased over the years. The basketball games are nearly $3. Even racing and Street Fighter games are around the $2.50 range. I remember a few years back, me and the misuss put $50 each on our cards and within 20 minutes, we had blown through $100. I am trying to figure out how the prices jumped so much for essentially the same games from olden days. Electricity costs? Offsetting costs of new machines? The slight rise in plushee/redemption prices? This is baffling. I spent $30 in 45 minutes yesterday. I had a blast, but wow, that went quickly. 5 bucks used to last hours back in the day |
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Post by JC Motors on May 31, 2022 9:31:05 GMT -5
They're mainly in cinemas over here and if I'm waiting for a movie then I'll check them out. Prices have certainly increased over the years. The basketball games are nearly $3. Even racing and Street Fighter games are around the $2.50 range. I remember a few years back, me and the misuss put $50 each on our cards and within 20 minutes, we had blown through $100. I am trying to figure out how the prices jumped so much for essentially the same games from olden days. Electricity costs? Offsetting costs of new machines? The slight rise in plushee/redemption prices? This is baffling. I spent $30 in 45 minutes yesterday. I had a blast, but wow, that went quickly. 5 bucks used to last hours back in the day Arcade machines cost a lot of money. Especially pinball machines. They cost in the $10k+ prices. |
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Post by k5 on Jun 6, 2022 0:05:39 GMT -5
I have a local arcade where it’s free to play after $5 entry. they make their profits off drinks.
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Post by CM Poor on Jun 6, 2022 10:47:55 GMT -5
It's a struggling market, and the overhead can be wildly expensive. It's why barcades have become so prevalent...they're going to make way more money off of food and drinks than they are off of games that are increasingly costly to maintain, and even then, the price to play has got to go up to compensate the cost of having them in place to begin with.
I own a full sized Dance Dance Revolution cabinet. A single sensor costs $9, and there are four beneath each panel. That's $36 per panel. There are eight panels, in all, making a full replacement $288.
That's close to 20% of what it cost just to buy the machine (five years ago, before the market soared with players trying to keep up their game in light of the pandemic).
That's not too cost prohibitive, but it's literally just myself and my wife who ever play on our cabinet. Put that out there in public somewhere, and it's going to take a lot more abuse.
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Post by Valbroski on Jun 7, 2022 8:28:48 GMT -5
One time when I was at Dave & Busters, the ski ball machine I was playing on was broken and kept spitting out more tickets than it should have. I was able to rack up enough tickets to win a Homer Simpson plush doll but some bitch tried narcing on me. I regret not telling her to grow a set/RKOing her.
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I dont know good luck 
