Fine, so we’re suckers for long scrollable timelines. But you have to admit that the one below, created by Pennsylvania arcade game distributors M&P Amusement, is a doozy. From Skee-Ball’s 1909 debut to the surround-sound experiences of the present day (and on, we imagine, into the Oculus Rift-enabled attractions of the near future), it’s a visual history of game arcades.
Oh, sorry, kids—”arcades” were these places we used to go in the ’80s to spend our extra quarters. And by “extra quarters,” we mean “every last quarter we could scrounge out of our pockets, the couch, and our mom’s secret change jar.” Most of them are gone now, but hipsters started resuscitating them. Which is fine by us, as long as it keeps them off the streets and mugging people for mustache wax.
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