The home console videogame market has basically caught up in terms of technology to what arcade manufacturers were able to produce. That was the beginning of the end for arcades as we knew them in the 70's, 80's & early 90's. Once you could play an arcade perfect port on a home console like Sony's PlayStation it was the beginning of the end for the classic arcades as we knew them. All of a sudden you had an arcade manufacturer like NAMCO jump ship to the home console market and fully support PlayStation with arcade perfect ports of games like Ridge Racer and many others the writing was on the wall. Pinball gave way to videogames in the late 70's and had a bit of a resurgence in the early 90's with the DMD games however arcade were starting to really loose market-share to the console industry. Even as the technology for pinball continued to move forward with Pinball 2000 the rapidly decaying arcade marketplace also negatively effected the pinball market. Now most arcades are all ticket redemption machines and skee ball.....and that is what kids today will remember as arcades. Of course you have Dave & Busters today with the remnants of the late Williams arcade games in the form of Raw Thrills but it'll never be like it was in the 80's & early 90's.