https://soranews24.com/2020/08/04/a...t-sega-arcade-announces-its-closing-for-good/
As last year has demonstrated, gathering in places is frowned upon in popular culture...something of which arcades are much more dependent upon compared to other businesses. Thankfully, as all of this was occurring, an alternative that I've personally tried and can vouch for became more prominent called Parsec.
https://parsec.app/
Parsec is a streaming app and platform that streams games to the client's PCs that, with a good enough connection, has low enough latency for the client to not be at a disadvantage in a match. To say that this is revolutionary and timely is an understatement. When the client connects to the host's PC, it is the same as them plugging in their controller to the host's PC!
Now, I have a lot of fighting games on Steam on my own personal account, and I also have other local multiplayer games from other genres. And I got to thinking, as someone who was planning on putting together a PC running inside an arcade machine using a pair of HORI RAP4 arcade sticks until 2020 occurred, it hit me; what if someone decided to take a burner PC, install a bunch of games and emulators, and just let it run as a server people could possibly join in and play games together as a sort of "online arcade" idea?
The only problem is maintaining this server, as having people pay to play games online with each other is a whole other legal minefield that probably isn't worth it for someone like myself to even attempt to navigate. All I'm doing here is kind of just tossing it out there and seeing what everyone here on GBATemp might think of the concept?
As last year has demonstrated, gathering in places is frowned upon in popular culture...something of which arcades are much more dependent upon compared to other businesses. Thankfully, as all of this was occurring, an alternative that I've personally tried and can vouch for became more prominent called Parsec.
https://parsec.app/
Parsec is a streaming app and platform that streams games to the client's PCs that, with a good enough connection, has low enough latency for the client to not be at a disadvantage in a match. To say that this is revolutionary and timely is an understatement. When the client connects to the host's PC, it is the same as them plugging in their controller to the host's PC!
Now, I have a lot of fighting games on Steam on my own personal account, and I also have other local multiplayer games from other genres. And I got to thinking, as someone who was planning on putting together a PC running inside an arcade machine using a pair of HORI RAP4 arcade sticks until 2020 occurred, it hit me; what if someone decided to take a burner PC, install a bunch of games and emulators, and just let it run as a server people could possibly join in and play games together as a sort of "online arcade" idea?
The only problem is maintaining this server, as having people pay to play games online with each other is a whole other legal minefield that probably isn't worth it for someone like myself to even attempt to navigate. All I'm doing here is kind of just tossing it out there and seeing what everyone here on GBATemp might think of the concept?