Greetings Indie Warriors and welcome to our review of Arcade Paradise! Arcade Paradise is an arcade management game from developer Nosebleed Interactive and published by Wired Productions. Arcade Paradise was reviewed on Steam/PC but is also available on Playstation and Xbox consoles as well as Nintendo Switch.
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https://wiredproductions.com/games/arcade-paradise/
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“Welcome to Arcade Paradise, the 90’s-fuelled retro arcade adventure. Rather than washing rags for a living, you decide to turn the family laundromat into the ultimate arcade. Play, profit, and purchase new arcade machines, with over 35 to choose from, to build your very own Arcade Paradise!”
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When the game is finished, can you go back and play any Arcade game?
IMHO this is an arcade collection that has some sim elements. Other than in the tutorial you never have to do a single load of laundry. Even at it's most humble the arcade is making about as much as the laundry if you bust your @$$ to get an S rank on every load. Your time might be spent better getting the goals on the machines to bring their popularity and thus profitability up. The game has no time limit or failure state. The only reason to earn money is to get more arcade games and progress the story.
Fun fact, the King Wash laundry is a store bought asset. You can find it in at least two other games by different indie devs. It's kind of thematically appropriate that the devs put all their time and love into the arcade part of the game and cared for the laundry part about as much as Ashley does.
Also the last game you start before 2 AM you can play as long as you want. Time won't progress until you leave the cabinet. After 2 AM you can't do anything other than go home. The game says that you might pass out but that never happened to me.
It's business sim that isn't for everyone? good
Been play Gas Station Sim might give this a go at some point
The arcades themselves reminded me of Action 52, but good! I had an absolute blast playing Table Football!
I just saw this on the epic store. I’m glad I saw this video. It seems like a fun time killer to play while I’m doing laundry. 😂
Should be called Laundrette Dystopia.
Lots of neat touches and detail to it. It looks fun but would be a grind of medial tasks.
Reminds me of theme park creator on ps2. You could build different coasters change prices of everything, pay attention to customer satisfaction. Even ride the coasters in 1st person lol Seems really cool!
Seems like the devs started out with a neat idea of managing an struggling arcade that required the player to basically work a second job. But then the devs either had trouble coming up with a reason to make the player keep the second job after the arcade got stable enough to not need it, or the devs decided that working the second job was more fun (or closer to their original goal) and kept the arcade side gig as just something to help make the game stand out. Point is, it sounds like the tried to mesh 2 different sim games into 1 and it wasn't as smooth as it should have been.
Saw a trailer for this and got excited. An arcade simulator running my own arcade! Plus, you can play the games. I'm in! Hated the Laundromat part in the trailer but I thought "it's just at the start, right? It's gone later? Don't want to clean gum and wash socks i want to run an arcade!" Well, your review says it stays and never goes away? Ug. I want an ARCADE simulator not a Laundromat one. Guess i'll pass. Shame.
Hey. Thanks for playing. Minor correction, there's 35 arcade machines to unlock plus some additional games we never count like solitaire on the PC. It's also worth noting, you can choose to completely ignore the laundry after the tutorial and just concentrate on playing the game, and actually that's the most efficient way of making cash. This isn't explained until about 1/4 of the way into the game though.
Your review has convinced me to buy this game, looks fun!
LOL This looks fun, but starting an arcade empire in the '90's is kind of like starting a video game company in Jan. 1983.
Nice review! 🙂
Since this game is also on GoG I might get it soon.
Just one question: Can you change the keybindings in the game or do you have to use WASD?
Totally my kind of game, lol
I think the game is great
At 7:50 you said there are 15 different arcade cabinets that can be unlocked. There is actually 35 & possibly even a few more than that. When you throw in the mini games plus "Air Hockey" "Pool" "Foosball" etc, that brings the total amount of games you can play to well over 40. Considering all this game has to offer, the grinding is worth it. "Arcade Paradise" is a winner!
Good review. Just a heads up most Laundromats offer a drop off and pick up service to do your laundry where they charge you by pound.
British Pounds let you, let me get this straight, manipulate time!? Run faster and hire someone, whatever. But TIME MANIPULATION!?
Damn, you Brits have way better money than us Yanks, lmao XD
How would anyone get enjoyment out of this game!? A total missed opportunity 🤦
Great review XHG. I read elsewhere that there’s a well-known cheat that vastly reduces the grind.
I already preordered this game on limited run games. I'm so interested on playing it!!
this game looks soooooo funnnnnnn… 🙄
Ashley is neither man or woman.
This game brings so many memories for me, as a kid playing Neo Geo and Capcom fighting games in the 80's and 90's, great review.
You're right in that this does have its audience. I'm not part of that audience, but it seems decent enough for those who don't mind the more grindy parts. Those arcade games do look great and hopefully the devs will consider just putting them in their own separate collection at some point so that some people can enjoy them without having to worry about the management sim side of Arcade Paradise. While I most likely will pass on this one, I will probably give the soundtrack a listen and see if I can find some gameplay of the arcade games, and as always, I appreciate the review.
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