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For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade

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Published on Jan 16, 2013

From Atari to Dave and busters, we dig into the rise and fall of the video arcade in America.

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  • ArticBeatle

    ArticBeatle 4 months ago

    The Barcade concept is awesome! I love The Verge and their style of reporting... It's head and shoulders above everyone else.

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  • Daniel Bazurto

    Daniel Bazurto 4 months ago

    Did anyone else roll their eyes when one guy said his kids bought almost all the games available for the iPad for thirty-fourty dollars?

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  • Transam4000

    Transam4000 2 weeks ago

    Umm no it isn't man, the arcade is always the best in graphics, look it up

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    SeventhSun 3 weeks ago

    It's 'Galaga' Ah Fat.

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  • SeventhSun

    SeventhSun 3 weeks ago

    Of course it is.

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  • SeventhSun

    SeventhSun 3 weeks ago

    It is.

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    SeventhSun 3 weeks ago

    Sama sama.

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  • SeventhSun

    SeventhSun 3 weeks ago

    Nah arcades are yesterday's news. You have to be brave and let them go.

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  • Razohead2

    Razohead2 3 weeks ago

    It's neat to see people keeping the spirit of the arcade alive I grew up around arcades, My father managed one for over 20 years so I witnessed first hand the rise and fall that particular arcade which steadily lost business after 1998 or so and finally closed it's doors in 2005 however just recently someone has bought the name and has reopened a revamped more modernized arcade with a rec-room something I had suggested years ago I have yet to check out the new arcade though I wish them well.

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  • kazora1001

    kazora1001 3 months ago

    i can safety say that arcade machines are not dead in my country

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  • funkywoofwoof

    funkywoofwoof 3 months ago

    All those old machines rotting away in that warehouse makes me cry.

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  • Transam4000

    Transam4000 3 months ago

    The home console isn't the same

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