how much longer would arcades have lived with no consoles?
I hate to admit it, but I personally could not wait as a kid for new games to come out in console format, only because once they came out in console form you could actually get to play them alot. Growing up, my family wasn't allowed to go to the arcade alot, since it was considered a waste of money-
However, now that we all see in retrospect what happened after the Atari 2600 came out, then Intellivision, then Colecovision, etc, one must wonder: how much longer would the arcades have kept going at their current rates had the home console not been invented?
I hate to admit it, but I personally could not wait as a kid for new games to come out in console format, only because once they came out in console form you could actually get to play them alot. Growing up, my family wasn't allowed to go to the arcade alot, since it was considered a waste of money-
However, now that we all see in retrospect what happened after the Atari 2600 came out, then Intellivision, then Colecovision, etc, one must wonder: how much longer would the arcades have kept going at their current rates had the home console not been invented?


