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Are you an addict in playing arcade machines? The previous system in playing arcade machines was to place a coin or token to get credits to play the game on the arcade machine. But guess what, there are new arcade machines that accepts bitcoin that will serve as your token to get credits to play your favorite arcade games. Im not really into playing but I think its a good topic especially to arcade fanatics.

heres the link: https://www.cnet.com/news/bitcoin-operated-arcade-machine-is-a-game-changer/

Feel free to comment.

I had a go with the Mortal Kombar machine in Prague at one of the best Bitcoin places i have ever seen:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3pcpe3/bitcoinenabled_mortal_kombat_at_paralelni_polis/

Just wondered if those players will bravely put out their smartphone0/gadgets to scan the QR code. The arcade machines are near each other and there are lots of people. The device will be hot to the eyes of those pickpocketers and robbers.

But overall it's really a unique system and a system changer for the usual arcades. Looks like awesome too if a person is using another way to be able to play in those arcade machines. It's really look cool.

Game changer?!

This is useless, with the fees it will cost double to play games from the 90's, plus do people need to wait for confirmation, if not people can just double spend and play for free...

You know this brings back a lot of pleasant memories, because we used to open the back of these machines and then manually add credits

to play for free. Yea, yea.... I know it was wrong, but we were stupid. The Bitcoin arcade games are cool, but I can just imagine the

frustration when we have our next "Spam" attack and it takes 24 hours for transactions to confirm.  ::)

I really like the fact that Bitcoin is also taking over this kind of retro-style industry. I still remember the "good old days" of arcade gaming in the 90s.

From the perspective of the operator of entertainment/vending machines of all kinds it makes a lot of sense to accept Bitcoin: It reduces the risk of theft and vandalism and the necessity to collect coins.

it is a good news to people who born to years when arcade gaming is rampant not today that console gaming replaced them but not totally. I hope we can have bitcoin vending machine and we just have to swipe our card to that machine and it would likely needed to be connected on the internet so it can relay any transaction.

This ia what I always wondering on each post about btc acceptance on something around the world
Do they need to wait for confirmation?? Since confurmation can take quite a bit time

I am waiting for a Bitcoin MMO that enables users to interact with an outer space environment and make off drilling, either it comes or we'll do it real life ;) .

Got loads of franchising ideas with your post, don't limit yourself to only arcades!

Where are you living? that really is not the problem, is it? the problem is the waiting time for confirmation
and this we all know that confirmation sometimes takes a while to be confirmed.

@OP The idea is great and it may attract new users but those new users will not like the long wait for
confirmation and might affect how they see bitcoin.

Hey guys,

Just as saw this thread, looking for articles / threads on Bitcoin accepting arcade machines, I recently converted an old arcade claw machine to accept Bitcoin - see more information here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1868712

In regards on bringing back the old way its good. It may help 90s people to bring back their chilhood on playing games usimg their bitcoin. On some cases there are problem on how to spend their bitcoin this idea may help on addition way to spend
 But on investment wise. This idea is totaly not worth because to earn it better to just invest in or maked it as a capital om your trading rather tham to waste it on playing on such arcade.

Well it is good for bitcoin growing because the comunity of bitcoin (users bitcoin) will add from gamers of arcade
so it is good news for bitcoin be adopted by arcade,
and usually if there are good news is like this, price of bitcoin will be increasing too although it is not 100% true because we don't know how much arcade fanatics adopt bitcoin.

cool gimmick. nothing else. if people don't wanna buy actual useful goods with bitcoin then they certainly won't waste any bitcoin on a game that lasts a few minutes. make a doge arcade machine.

No one wants to spend their Bitcoin on these machines. It would have been better if they start accepting low value altcoins, it will be a promotion of that coin as well as good for users too.

Actually quite a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts you came to coinfest spent their money on this machine (and won!)

I don't get it. Why wouldn't you want to spend your coins if the price was right? What does it matter if you pay for an arcade game with fiat, Bitcoin or any altcoin? They are all interchangeable, right?
This means that at the moment of spending the ticket or token or whatever it is you're buying, have the same price in all currencies.

I think that, although arcade games are not as popular as they used to, this is a step in the right direction.

you can spend bitcoin in thousands of places right now on way more useful items.

hardly anyone's doing it because they're hoarding it with the expectation of higher values in the future.

when include bitcoin fees that cost more than the average arcade game then there's even less point.

A nice idea but could really be worse considering the fact that it would take a good 10 or so minutes just for confirmation times and by then, I think the user would be frustrated before he/she can play a single game. Also if the arcade would consider 0 conf that would be an easy target for those who want to have the lulz without spending anything.

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0506/3177/products/vending_machine_tokens_d3c877d0-d425-436c-b8bb-c3b26ba4a636_1024x1024.jpeg?v=1410564564   =   https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5530/10307522755_cf6d50d2de_z.jpg

This is what people want Bitcoin to become? Curious.

Indeed. The issue I think I have a way around for the machine but still in development. At CoinFest we had 0 confirms but only because the machine was in a selected area where when people wanted to play I could see them near the machine and I could discuss the project with them.

The question still remains: why are they hoarding if they can buy more anytime they want. The only thing that comes to mind is that there are no decent services available worldwide. I know there are many stores around the world, but most of them are in the US or Asia and you have to pay for shipping. Also, the range of products you can buy is still limited and the prices aren't competitive with fiat, especially for a EU citizen.
 
I agree that the fees are a problem now. 2 Years ago, when I first heard of Bitcoin it wasn't the case.

because most of the time it costs extra. i'm not registered with an exchange. if i want to replenish what i've spent in bitcoin then i've got to go to localbitcoins, or somewhere like coinbase. that carries a premium.

for my theoretical arcade game i'm paying a minimum 50c in bitcoin fees plus 3-10% premium to buy that bitcoin back. why the hell would i bother if i've got a quarter in my pocket?

I understand your situation, but a typical Bitcoin user is registered on an exchange, so this argument would not fit the majority.
The fee is certainly a problem, but it hasn't been like that a couple years ago. Hopefully it will get resolved in the near future, because if not, there won't be any adoption and no reason to hold. As people have said, accepting a 0 confirmation could help.

Why should we spend? Because it will show the business owners the system works and it's worth to add an option to pay in crypto to their machines. If you go to Japan you'll see how many vending machines they have. You rarely even interact with waiters in restaurants, just enter, press a button, and get the meal delivered to you via conveyor belt. Bitcoin was made for this.

Yes,  I agree in that is a good idea and the fans of arcade machines will like it, but slow confirmations are a big issue and maybe nobody will want to use those machines. Perhaps they should evaluate the possibility of accepting other criptocurrencys.

I really enjoy playing some arcade game when I was a kid,
If you could really create some arcade machines that could let us play and earn some bitcoin it would be really awesome.

Are you based in the UK?

My eventual plan is to have a site of a few of the most popular arcade machines along with some other Bitcoin focused stuff.

I think something like this might be interesting for some people, but I don't have all that much time to go to arcades anymore so I don't think I would be a good candidate for looking at something like this.

I don't know if it's exactly a game changer like Cnet wants to call it, but it definitely takes a new spin on the concept of a traditional arcade that we have. However, I don't know if arcades are really all that popular anymore now that PCs and consoles have mostly taken over the gaming market.

They implemented bitcoin to arcade machine, that's maybe the future usage of bitcoin. But if you want to play it fast you need to pay higher fees, which will allow you to pay additional cents to play it with no big delays

Well we are and new generation we have now PC's and Advanced console but there still other people are collecting unique machines like this.
People might be interested if the game have a prize if they finish the game .

I think they should remove the delay when sending bitcoin into the arcade they should change it into 0 confirmation so that people who want to play they don't need to wait for a long time before they can play.

there are quite a few places out there that house loads of arcade machines that you can play for a flat entry fee. that makes more sense with bitcoin.

That will be a good news
for the people who are using
arcade machines.

Not a bad idea. But if we accept the fact that bitcoin is money, then anything that can be done with money can be done with bitcoin. So basically this is only a news because bitcoin is still not a "currency".

Cool idea if you could pay bitcoin in a arcade machine maybe the system is digital but you need to scan the qr code to pay maybe about 4ksatoshi but its like playing with your bitcoin maybe they can play gambling in the arcade too with the bitcoin that can be really cool stuff to earn some bitcoin i allready see some machine that exchange money for bitcoin . But good stuff in a arcade machine.