What State Gets the Most Arcade Luv?

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I always look at where people are posting here on KLOV. Partly because I am a stalker and the other part is because I wonder how far I would have to drive to pick up a game for sale.
It got me thinking, what state has the most arcade lovin going on?

I see Texas a lot on here. Especially on warehouse raids and unique games. Southern Cal and New York always represent well. I think we here in Minnesota have a nice following (bows gracefully).
What other states have a strong following? Who gets the GOLD, Silver and bronze medals?
 
Based on prices, it seems that Michigan has got a lot of buyers / collectors. I think machines tend to go for more here than just about anywhere!
 
It's definitely not here in Fl. most collectors are into pins not me though I'm all about the classic arcade games and there pretty hard to find here too.
 
If you go by VAPS, it would be Cali in the number one spot and then Texas by number of members.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/members/statistics/states.php

I am not surprised that Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are #4-#6 respectively because I know there are a bunch of collectors out here. I think only a couple of my games are from outside of that area for me. Hell I know a bunch of collectors that aren't even on KLOV/VAPS. It's a shame because if we could all get more organized that would only help up us.
 
I'm in Texas and do feel fortunate to be where I'm at, within the context of the sickness that is this arcade collecting thing. The 2 places I find myself jealous of the most are Illinois and Pennsylvania. It seems like Illinois is loaded with an inordinate quantity of the standards, and that whenever I see a great old rarity-- one that you can't expect to find ever again anywhere-- advertised to be in great condition, as often as not it's somewhere in Pennsylvania.

Not that I've made a statistical survey on the subject or anything. This is just what seems.
 
California isn't actually the top state for collectors if you judge it as population divided by collectors, it isn't even close (I only checked Missouri against it, but Missouri beat it 1.5 to 1).
 
I always look at where people are posting here on KLOV. Partly because I am a stalker and the other part is because I wonder how far I would have to drive to pick up a game for sale.
It got me thinking, what state has the most arcade lovin going on?

I see Texas a lot on here. Especially on warehouse raids and unique games. Southern Cal and New York always represent well. I think we here in Minnesota have a nice following (bows gracefully).
What other states have a strong following? Who gets the GOLD, Silver and bronze medals?

Minnesota is definitely well represented.
 
I just consistently see pretty good games down in Texas and New York. When I say pretty good, it isn't just volume of games, but good titles. I wondered back in the day where the "hot beds" were for arcade games. Did the large cities (New York, Chicago, LA, Dallas) get a lot of games just because of size? Or was there an area where there were just a ton of gamers by demographics?

It would be interesting to hear from a sales rep from back in the day as to their target areas.
 
California isn't actually the top state for collectors if you judge it as population divided by collectors, it isn't even close (I only checked Missouri against it, but Missouri beat it 1.5 to 1).

I guess if you want to find a creative way to fudge the numbers on paper you could do that.

Doesn't change that we are swimming in games and collectors. Even if you divide the state in half between Bay Area and SoCal.
 
that's the art of statistics...

the fact that so many arcade companies came up around here flooded the area with loads of machines. Atari, Konami, Namco, Capcom, Sega, SNK, Data East are just a few of the companies that were/are in California...

Having two major ports of entry also make it easier to have importers bring in candy cabs from Japan also...
 
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