{"id":13016,"date":"2015-09-09T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2015-09-09T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:02:18","slug":"the-economics-of-arcades-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-arcades-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Arcades In The 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/090915_1159_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since arcades were a part of the national conversation. Willie Clark looked at the ones that still run today and how they work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s difficult to make any real money from games so most modern arcades are game areas with bars attached.<\/li>\n<li>At one arcade, games make up just 4% of revenue. The other 96% is mostly food and drink.<\/li>\n<li>Arcade owners are experimenting with different pricing models. Some still charge the quarter per play common when arcades were popular in the 80s and 90s.<\/li>\n<li>Others are trying out flat rate models where, for example, a customer pays $7 to play unlimited games for an hour \u2013 although this can lead to people hogging machines.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the arcades are filled with classic games from the arcade era. The machines can be bought on eBay and can cost anywhere between $1,000 and $3,000.<\/li>\n<li>Given the age of the machines, arcades also have to factor in about $200 a month to pay for maintenance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about arcade games with drink holders, how Dave and Buster&#8217;s is an exception, lingering legal obstacles, and other details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/features\/2015\/9\/7\/9251753\/running-an-arcade-2015\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/features\/2015\/9\/7\/9251753\/running-an-arcade-2015\">Polygon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since arcades were a part of the national conversation. Willie Clark looked at the ones that still run today and how they work: It&#8217;s difficult to make any real money from games so most modern arcades are game areas with bars attached. At one arcade, games make up just 4% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/090915_1159_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13019,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions\/13019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}