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Quoted from IdahoRealtor:Our league arcade does well, but it's attached to a popular used video game store. The successful arcades these days seem to have/need an additional hook to bring in the traffic.
I think it's inflation. Look at how much everything else has gone up in cost since the 80's/90's. What would the relative cost of game then vs now be anyway? $2/$3 a game?
Quoted from KloggMonkey:Not as much as you would like to think.
.25 in 1985 is .55 today.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=.25&year1=1985&year2=2015
Hmmm... Not sure that holds across the board. I paid $23k for a mustang gt in 2003 but they are $33k now. But what do I know. Just seems like stuff has gone up a LOT 
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