hi Liam,
yeah, I know. it is shocking to realize that arcade machines is almost a 
thing of the past. I do see them around from time to time, but not like 
they were in the 80's.
Back in the 1980's in Wooster Ohio, where I grew up, we had two video 
arcades packed wall to wall with arcade machines. I played most of the 
classics there first. Double Dragon, Asteroids, Zaxxon, Packman, 
Megaman, you name it. If it was in those arcades I played them and 
talked my parents into buying many of those games for my home consoles.
Fact was in the 80's you didn't even have to go to an arcade to find 
arcade machines. You might go to Pizza Hut and find a sit down version 
of Packman or go out to pick up a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, and a 
bag of dog food from the local grocery store and find Donkey Kong 
awaiting you as you went in or out of the store. You might drop into 
K-Mart or Hills to go Christmas shopping and find the front of the store 
had a row of stand up arcade machines just waiting to take you to new 
and exciting worlds. Point being, the things were everywhere. Now, they 
are an endangered species.


Liam Erven wrote:
> what's amazing to me, is there will eventually be a whole generation of 
> people who have never seen arcade machines, as honestly they're hard to find 
> now adays.


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