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Can sorta tell how old the writers are (or out of touch). In 2003, when the virus outbreak occurred, Tekken Tag Tournament, maybe Soul Calibur, was what you'd find in an arcade, not Mortal Kombat II, game was _ancient_ by that point.

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Where i lived Arcades just kept their old machines forever. If a arcade was still open by 2003 they would have Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat and even older stuff like Operation Wolf or Lethal Enforcers.

They replied on a comment about this. They were not able to get licenses on anything post 2000

Here's the comment: https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/last-of-us-arcade-s...

I remember in the early 2000s mall arcades in smaller cities and towns were dying and many had old machines. In my town the most popular arcades are almost entirely 80s and 90s machines, many out of order. One is in business mostly as an attraction for the bar on the upper floor.

And I don't remember ANY virus outbreak and downfall of society in the early 2000's either. This show is so unrealistic.

they only missed by a couple of decades

Eh, smaller privately run arcades often use older machines if that's all they can afford.

The writers had little to do with this. If you'd click the actual link, you'd see this is an arcade enthusiast community with two well known members being asked to get involved and help set up the scene.

You're getting downvoted, but you're not wrong. I think it would _extremely_ odd to see a Robotron 2084 in a mall of all places; and especially an asteroids deluxe. By that time Asteroids Deluxe, which is an unreliable game to begin with, would start to be moving into collectors item or into beat up trash category.

Probably downvoted for the hijack

Funny enough, where I lived in 2003 arcades were ancient already, everyone was at home playing PC/PS2

And the carousel was playing a Cure song (Just Like Heaven).

I’ll admit I chuckled at the merry go round version of that song. It was a nice touch.

I’m old enough to get to live through 80s music again, which is wierd.

Which I totally missed until I read about it - then had to replay the scene and totally got it

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