Excluding a brief resurgence in the early 1990s, the arcade industry subsequently declined in the Western hemisphere as competing such as the and increased in their graphics and game-play capability and decreased in cost. While exact dates are debated, the is usually defined as a period beginning sometime in the late 1970s and ending sometime in the mid-1980s. An arcade game or coin-op is a entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and.
