January 25th, 2013 at 6:32PM
mattpayton: For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade - The Verge Kind of makes you nostalgic for a part of an era that you recognize but never had any participation in, doesn’t it?  Long read, but pretty interesting…..and yes, I spent far too many hours wasting quarters in arcades; these days, the quarters are accumulated into lump sums for games like Battlefield with which to waste my time.

mattpayton:

For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade - The Verge

Kind of makes you nostalgic for a part of an era that you recognize but never had any participation in, doesn’t it? 

Long read, but pretty interesting…..and yes, I spent far too many hours wasting quarters in arcades; these days, the quarters are accumulated into lump sums for games like Battlefield with which to waste my time.

  1. shelterfromthenorm reblogged this from meanmrbuddha and added:
    For me it all started playing Pac-Man and Tempest at the roller rink in Erie. Then the mall in Lakewood that I could...
  2. hikergirl reblogged this from wooliebear and added:
    I need to see Wreck It Ralph. also, go read Ready Player One.
  3. littleorphanammo reblogged this from wooliebear and added:
    They just opened up an old skool arcade with all the old games, that serves booze, in the neighborhood. Penny Arcade. On...
  4. wooliebear reblogged this from meanmrbuddha and added:
    Defender and Galaga. Remember Tempest? Wreck it Ralph reminded me of all that time spent in arcades.
  5. meanmrbuddha reblogged this from davidkendall and added:
    I spent many hours in a dark, noisy arcade called Time Out. In the 80s, everyone had a game they were good at. Mine was...
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  7. davidkendall reblogged this from mattpayton and added:
    Long read, but pretty interesting…..and yes, I spent far too many hours wasting quarters in arcades; these days, the...
  8. belcimer said: You’re talking about the shorts.
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