It happens every single time I go to a new arcade or revisit an old favorite.

It's always full of horrible, crappy games not worth playing or half of them don't even work.

Yesterday I visited an arcade in Fort Wayne which I went to occasionally, called Tokens-n-Tickets, which I generally thought to be "alright", which is now changed to "this place kinda sucks now".

The prices are a huge rip-off now ($20 for 120 tokens...), and a lot of the machines have coin slots that don't work for some reason.

I used to come here sometimes because they had rare games like (links are videos of gameplay):

-Keyboardmania [link]
-Guitar Freaks 2nd mix [link]
-DDR Supernova (aren't many of those left since Supernova 2, Extreme, and X are around)[link]
-Typing of the Dead [link]

Those were pretty much the games I'd spend all my time on.

They got rid of Keyboardmania, which makes me a bit upset but at least they kept everything else. However, some asshole messed up one of the Guitarfreaks guitar controllers and a button from one is missing, so 2-player is impossible.

So why do American arcades suck again? Here's the tl;dr:

-they are expensive
-little children break all the machines
-THEY DON'T FIX THE DAMN MACHINES
-the selection of games they have is horrible
-not enough music games

Hopefully Great X Scape in Bloomington is better. I've heard they have an IIDX Gold machine. [link]