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term: Arcade
DIR By: Hanuman
Date: December 31, 2022, 5:44 am
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An obsolete word for today but in old times that word described
old games played in machines that took coins in.
Because nowadays you hardly see such games and machines you
can't use such term anymore.
You can redefine the term but this has not happened because no
game dictionary show an adequate new definition for such term.
There is no need for such term either, one can use available
modern terms like: cartoon-like, old-fashioned etc.
Wows community believes that Wows is an arcade game but has lsot
all debates to explain it adequately.
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Re: term: Arcade
DIR By: Hanuman
Date: March 30, 2023, 12:40 am
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The word Arc was officially invented to describe curved streets
that had some entertainment shops:
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> The English word was applied to passages formed by a
succession of arches supported on piers or pillars, avenues of
trees, and ultimately to any covered avenue (1731), especially
one lined with shops (1795) or amusements; hence arcade game
(1977).
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HTML https://www.etymonline.com/word/arcade
So, the word officially is connented to the word Entertainment.
Unofficially i guess was so that most buildings and things were
rectangular and it was technically difficult to build curved
things and impractical, and because a lottery kiosk or other
entertainment object is not practical but more to
amuse/entertain then those things were built differently than
practical actual needs were. For example the roof of a kiosk or
a gaming machine shape was more round. Even for children the
safe toys should be with rounded corners. So the idea of
entertainment used arced curves.
Thats how the word Arcade connected to the Entertainment and
first coin machines are of course an entertainment and often
with round corners.
But life evolves and there are no coin machines nowadays anymore
and new terms create new video game types and therefore the word
Arcade is obsolete/outdated.
Wows has no unique round corners, no place to put coins, no
cartoonlike appearance, it is inadequate to call it with archaic
words, rational is to call it with phrase "a shooting game".
#Post#: 1200--------------------------------------------------
Re: term: Arcade
DIR By: wows
Date: April 26, 2023, 2:23 pm
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> Arcade video games takes player input from its controls,
processes it through electrical or computerized components, and
displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display. All
arcade video games are coin-operated or accept other means of
payment, housed in an arcade cabinet, and located in amusement
arcades alongside other kinds of arcade games.
>
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HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_video_game
That Wiki page does not have a WG logo and Wows doesn't require
coins hence is not of type Arcade.
The term Arcade has not been redefined anywhere and Wiki would
definitely show if it had had.
A typical example of an Arcade type of game is Pac Man:
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Pac-Man
It is debateble if a PC Pacman should be called Arcade. But if
you make a multiplayer PC Pacman then it definitely would not be
Arcade. It is enough to compare Pacman and Wows and sense the
difference and hence understand they both can't and should not
hold the same game type title.
I suggest not to call any PC games as Arcade. Only coins in bus
stations, pubs, make a game Arcade. This is what the definition
says. No need to redefine anything and no need to use obsolete
words at all. Say "a coins game", or Pc game, a simplistic game,
a cartoon-like game, but never archaic words, don't call
anything Arcade.
The Arcade word was given to a whole game station cabinet, not
only to the software inside.
Very simple is to read the definition in the Wikipedia and
notive the word Coin. That magic word says it all. If your don't
put coins into you PC box then your Windows, Word and Wows are
not Arcade.
#Post#: 2883--------------------------------------------------
Re: term: Arcade
DIR By: wows
Date: June 5, 2025, 9:12 am
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Arcade word has the sub word Arc which is a curve shape. Some
buildings had such round arcish curved windows and ceiling. So
the whole such building was called as an Arcade, a building with
arcish architecture. And when they put entertainment coin
machines into those building they started to call those machines
as Arcade machines, in the meaning of " a machine in an arcade
style building", hence Arcade Machine, Arcade Game station.
Because the building was labelled as Arcade building.
If they had labelled such arcish building as Troll building,
then the coin machines would have got a name Troll Machine
because it is a machine in a building of Troll type.
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Re: term: Arcade
DIR By: Hanuman
Date: June 5, 2025, 9:19 am
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So, if you wish to call Wows as Arcade game then you must first
have those round windows at least. And in that case you can call
your cat as an Arcade cat as well.
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