/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8622859
>It was consoles and computer games that killed that, not the internet. There's no point going to the mall and dropping coins into a box that plays Tekken when you can just play Tekken at home.
Yeah, the reference to the internet was mostly about how it's changed our culture more broadly. Like the decline of shopping malls is also linked to the internet. There's a relationship between this and the decline of arcades, but as you point out, there's other factors that contributed to their death.