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Arcades used to be at the forefront of gaming, with arcade games representing the bleeding edge of technology, compared to home consoles which were always trying to play catch up. Console manufacturers constantly took swings back and forth between each other over who could provide the most arcade accurate experiences, yet still often failed to live up to the real deal. Arcade machines could be important fixtures at restaurants, laundromats, and other local businesses, now they're an extremely rare thing to come across outside of the very few dedicated arcade establishments still left in the United States. I'm not really going to go into depth on why arcades fell out of prominence here, because it isn't all that interesting to be honest. By the turn of the millennium, home consoles were catching up to arcades in terms of technology, to the point where arcade machines could be made out of retail consoles, and then there's also the simple fact that most people don't really use cash…

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