El Estrago Bonito posted:

Yeah arcades still exist but they really aren't the same. They're sort of on the way back now though since the hardware is cheap and plentiful and there's a whole generation of kids raised by YouTube gaming personalities that wants to play classic games but has no way to get them. The pricing setup is very different now and you can drink in most of them, but little by little I've started to see more Arcades pop up around me. I also think that right about now is when you could probably open a new Video Rental store in some major metro area. Enough people who grew up in the golden age of video stores now have kids that you could probably keep a mom and pop rental place rolling as long as it was authentic as gently caress. It would need to look and feel like walking back in time, and most importantly it would need to cater to the kind of films Redbox/Netflix never has, IE old classics, B movies, direct to video stuff, etc if you wanted to get really crazy you'd have a video game rental section filled with NES/SNES/Genesis/N64/Playstation games and a popcorn machine would obviously be required.