Quoted from o-din:Well, what made them stop playing then? Certainly wasn't a lack of location games.
I'll call BS on that. Maybe its not an issue in LA, but there is still a lack of location games in these parts, and everywhere I've lived since high school.
When the arcades closed in the 80's and they stopped putting them in laundromats and 7/11's, there just wasn't a lot of easily accessible games around.
Even today, they are tough to find if you aren't old enough to hang out at a bar.