Sunday, February 26, 2006

The future of arcades

It used to be that arcades offered technically superior machines to what you could ever game on at home. That ended with the last generation of consoles, when the dreamcast, PS2 & Xbox were on par, and the 'next gen' certainly exceeds.

The only thing they had left to differentiate was peripherals. You could build a cabinet with a game-specific controller, and people wouldn't do that for the home, right? Enter dance pads, and of course, Guitar Hero.

Nowhere left to run for the arcades, right?

Maybe not. Speaking of running, enter La Fuga. 50% theme park exhibit, 50% location-based computer game, and from the sounds of it, 100% awesome.

To boot, it sounds like some of the core mechanic revolves around the same thing as some of the "find your way out of the room" casual games that Jay is always reviewing, and for that matter is similar to Myst.

Coming soon to NYC! Sign me up!

1 comment:

Matthew said...

You have to pay a dime a game to play on arcades. Still, game consoles aren't always that great.

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