24th May 2006, 2:34 PM
Yeah, about the one thing left for arcades to provide are add-ons that would otherwise be prohibitevely large/expensive to get at home, like a bicycle thing or a jet ski mount or giant metal dancing floors. That's the reason left to go to them. So, they'll probably still be around with just games like THAT for a while to come, until holodecks become all the rage. Then companies will release "classic game compilations" with all those old games on the new tech, and mothers will scare their daughters with how evil these new video games are and that story on the news about that guy that lured a friend into the holodeck and turned off the safeties in "Resident Evil 42", which by then has been updated with the new tech, slowly and subtly, so that no one even really notices how much of a major tech change the future has, like how people today don't seem to realize how super advanced we are compared to just 20 years ago. And like, zombies will seem about as silly as the giant metal robots of the 1920's shouting "destroy" and doing a Frankenstein's monster walk and firing "death beams". So, zombies will be done in campy half parody games in that time.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)