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An arcade game is played on the coin-operated entertainment machine, usually positiioned in public businesses, for example restaurants, bars, and particularly amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video game titles, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers

The golden era of arcade video game titles was through the late 1970s towards 1980s. While arcade games remained as relatively popular over the 1990s, this kind of media saw a continuous decline in popularity under western culture when video gaming consoles made the transition from 2D to 3D. Understandably, arcades remain popular in Asia through to todays.

Today's arcades  get a niche in games that use special controllers largely inaccessible by users. A different interpretation (one which includes fighting games, which keep thrive and require no special controller) is the arcade game is currently an increasingly socially-oriented hangout, with games that consentrate on someone's performance, as opposed to the game's content, as being the primary kind of novelty. Types of today's popular genres are rhythm games such as Dance Dance Revolution (1998) and DrumMania (1999), and rail shooters including Virtua Cop (1994), Time Crisis and House with the Dead (1996).

Arcade games often times have very short levels, simple and easy and intuitive control schemes, and rapidly increasing difficulty. This can be as a result of environment from the Arcade, the spot that the player it's essentially renting the sport as long as their in-game avatar usually stays alive (or until they use up all your tokens).