spmahn
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Just wondering, has anyone been to any commercial campgrounds lately? Do they still mostly have arcades? I remember my father for into a camping kick around the late 90's - early 2000's, and just about every campground we went to had an arcade full of classics in their rec room. Some places only had a handful, other had a huge selection of games and a few pinballs to boot.
When we first started camping I thought it was odd to be doing something outdoors like camping and find an arcade on the campground, but I guess it must be something expected at most places, since just about every location we went to had one. I imagine that would be one of the few environments left where the classics would actually earn decent money, since you have such a large group of families on site with kids, many of whom probably have zero interest in doing outdoors stuff. From what I remember most of the places kept the games ing good working order, but given that it was almost a decade ago, I can imagine that many of these same places allowed their games to deteriorate over time and neither had the skills nor time to fix them, so they'd eventually just do away with them. Regardless, despite how much I hated camping, those were still good times.
When we first started camping I thought it was odd to be doing something outdoors like camping and find an arcade on the campground, but I guess it must be something expected at most places, since just about every location we went to had one. I imagine that would be one of the few environments left where the classics would actually earn decent money, since you have such a large group of families on site with kids, many of whom probably have zero interest in doing outdoors stuff. From what I remember most of the places kept the games ing good working order, but given that it was almost a decade ago, I can imagine that many of these same places allowed their games to deteriorate over time and neither had the skills nor time to fix them, so they'd eventually just do away with them. Regardless, despite how much I hated camping, those were still good times.
