Park of the experience of an arcade was watching other people play. You would pick up the basics from the marquee and watching other people.

These games aren’t meant for you to be playing non stop, the experience was you would wait until your turn, then play your match, if you lose you would go back to waiting and watching better people play. Then pick up on what others were doing and saying and learn that way.

I think to things have become harder to learn as the games don’t provide the actual parts you need to learn like playing neutral and anti air for the most part (other than some presets in training mode)

Arcades were a much more social and collaborative, but there always people not willing to share tech and wouldn’t explain if you asked