[Leynos]

Sadly, like everything, the arcades are now commodity hardware. Everyone just started putting out industrial PC based systems and shipping the games on hard drives

[jjice]

I think it's also a benefit in someways though. Preservation should be much easier and more accessible this way. Also maintainability.

[larodi]

Well what I mean is how they been printing PCBs and experimenting. Perhaps has lot to do with the then-very vivid generation. Sadly Japan is aging and very closed to outer influx, so this culture may as easily die at all.