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The golden age of arcade video games refers to the early 1980s, a peak era of video arcade game popularity, innovation, and earnings. The number of video game arcades in North America more than doubled between 1980 and 1982, reaching a peak of 13,000 locations.
The main cause of the mid-1990s arcade slump was competition from console ports. Publishers began releasing highly accurate home versions of arcade games before those games had peaked in arcade popularity, cutting directly into arcade revenue. In the second quarter of 1996, factories reported 90,000 arcade cabinets sold, down from 150,000 in 1990.
Arcade Club, located in Bury, Greater Manchester in the UK, is recognised as the largest arcade in Europe. It houses over 400 original arcade machines. A second venue opened in Leeds in May 2019, and a third in Blackpool opened in 2022 after a delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ottumwa, Iowa was declared the "Video Game Capital of the World" by its mayor, Jerry Parker, on the 30th of November 1982. The city subsequently hosted the first video game world championship on the 8th and the 9th of January 1983 and the first billion-point video-game performance on the 16th of January 1984.
A penny arcade is a venue for coin-operated entertainment devices, named for the penny once commonly used to operate the machines. The term came into use between 1905 and 1910. Early machines included bagatelles, pinball, fortune-telling devices, Mutoscopes, and coin-operated shooter games.
Barcade opened in Brooklyn, New York in 2004, combining a full bar with classic arcade machines from the 1970s and 1980s. Its success influenced the opening of similarly themed game bar hybrids across the United States, including Ground Kontrol in Portland, Oregon, and prompted the DNA Association to coin the term "social-tainment" for the format.