Tariffs on home consoles in Mexico and Latin America-which put consoles popular in North America and Europe out of reach for Chinese, Mexican, and Latin American gamers-pushed this love of arcades even further.įor example, Brazil has always been hit by extremely high tariffs on gaming consoles, going all the way back to systems like the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis in the 1990s, due to them not being recognized as “essential goods.” When it was released in 2013, the PlayStation 4 cost $1,845 in Brazil due to import tariffs, and Nintendo completely stopped game distribution in the country in 2015 because of the import tariffs (though the company thankfully returned to bring Brazil the Switch). Thanks to the cartridge hardware, instead of ordering an all-new cabinet, owners could just buy the cart and the art, then throw them into an already owned system. They were a lot more cost effective, especially in comparison to Capcom’s competing CPS2 units, which ran games like Street Fighter Alpha and Darkstalkers. The popularity of Capcom’s titles made the field competitive and difficult to get into, but this gave SNK’s Neo Geo cabinets an edge in Mexico. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Software settled, back on the hardware side arcade machines were quite expensive. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.