AllYouCanArcade
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My best guesstimate is that there were approximately 1 million arcades made during the 80's and maybe another 250,000 in the 90s.
http://www.brentradio.com/ProductionNumbers.htm
Given the way these puppies like to break down, one has to imagine that over half of them have been destroyed/discarded in the line of the duty and another 25% parted out/mamed by now. This leaves approximately 300,000 living/undead/waiting to be fixed arcades left. This sort of sounds right, except if half of these are international, it would mean that there are only 5 arcades in every city/town in the US (30,000 small and large towns in the US) and that seems way too low to me. What do you think, how many arcades do you think they made and how many are still out there?
http://www.brentradio.com/ProductionNumbers.htm
Given the way these puppies like to break down, one has to imagine that over half of them have been destroyed/discarded in the line of the duty and another 25% parted out/mamed by now. This leaves approximately 300,000 living/undead/waiting to be fixed arcades left. This sort of sounds right, except if half of these are international, it would mean that there are only 5 arcades in every city/town in the US (30,000 small and large towns in the US) and that seems way too low to me. What do you think, how many arcades do you think they made and how many are still out there?
