>>6489954>retail space.This too.
Companies only want to carry major sellers now and that's mostly just WalMart rubbing off onto everyone.
And Suncoast/Sam Goody rotting apart was one of the major things that led to the demise of a once bigger market. Palisades, SOTA, and even McFarlane heavily relied on them.
>>6489967You have no idea what you're talking about.
Video games might have been seen as a fad in the 70s, but by the 80s, video games were firmly entrenched. Arcade owners became millionaires. Chuck E Cheese and its wannabes became a thing. Tons of new video game companies started exsting. Nintendo's new direction toward video games started. All before the 80s.
Saying it's a fad because of the crash ignores the fact arcades were still booming. This is where the majority of cash was being spent up until probably the early 90s. Only consoles were hit by the crash and Nintendo became popular in the mid-80s, not early 90s.
>the rise of multiplayer gamesNope.
Arcades existed and some of the most popular games were multiplayer for double the cash in one machine.
If anything has affected children buying/wanting toys, its that even toddlers need iPhones now and how there is a multitude of free games.
FYI, NBA Jam made nearly a billion dollars when it first came out. The arcade machines. 25¢ per play. That's more than any movie had ever made.
This is how popular arcades were back in the day and shows how much money kids were putting into VGs back then.
