All the municipalities killed it by purposely trying to close down every arcade because kids were buying and selling weed in them so commonly. The municipalities first started making the owners pay a tax as high as $150 annually per game. They they put minimum age laws on how old the customers could be and started sending the cops in to enforce the local laws on how late minors could be out at night. Then the citizens were still coming to the front desk and complaining that their kid was in an arcade after 10 o'clock so the cops started sending in uniformed officers to check IDs and write the kids for possession of tobacco under the age of 18 etc. I know for a fact this is all true because I am a retired cop. The cities wanted every arcade shut down because the parents were to lazy to watch their own kids so they wanted the police officers to do it for them.

Bars are disappearing here in the US too. When the portable breathalyzers (PBTs) came out initially (maybe in the early 80's) they were only to be used as an "exclusionary tool" for when a cop pulled a guy over but was not sure if he should let the guy drive home or not. If he blew under a .010 the cops would let him go. Well, after about 5 years of those tools being around some cops got the bright idea that they could make a lot of money in court for overtime if they pulled over every car that left a bar and stuck a PBT in his mouth. And thats what happened. They did it enough to get the PBT results admitted in court as evidence, and the cops sit outside the bars now when they close somebody gets a PBT stuck in their mouth, and a cop gets himself some overtime later and a pat on the head from his boss that night. The word spreads through the bar and the customers stop going there. Lots of bars around here have closed as a result.