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Arcade Spirits on Steam and other stores (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 5 months ago by falseprophet@fedia.io to c/adventuregames@retrolemmy.com

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Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?

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[–] falseprophet@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

I was also confused when I first read the synopsis. But I have not played the game so it's hard to say. I also not from the USA and there was not really crash here so I don't know how it was there. But I think you are not supposed no think about it too deeply. The video game crash is something talked about a lot by gaming youtubers, so I think most people have heard of it now even if they were not alive at the time of lived in the USA.

So I guess it is just a plot device that they used, to tell an alternative reality for arcade games history. Though I could be wrong.