Hi Nicol, Actually Packman is an arcade game, but Sarah is not. Sarah is classified as a FPS, First Person Shooter, which is different. The reason games like Packman, Asteroids, etc got to be known as arcade games is that they were made available in arcades in the 1980's. According to any English dictionary an arcade is a covered passageway with shops and stores along both sides. In short that describes what we commonly call shopping malls in the USA. However, the old English name for that kind of setup is an arcade. Anyway, in major cities in the USA most shopping malls offered a store area or a specialised area where they hosted wall to wall video gaming machines featuring Packman, Double Dragon, Asteroids, Ninja Turtles, etc. When they were popular you could walk in to this area in the mall ,designated the arcade, with a pocket full of quarters and start dropping coins in the game machines. However, in time with the games being converted to home consoles like the NES, Sega, Play Station, etc game arcades fell out of fassion, and arcades once sponcering wall to wall gaming machines became game stores with wall to wall boxes of the latest game releases, or became video game rentals.
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