DYING AGAIN AND AGAIN IN A VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE

Paul Bellow · May 30, 2017

Though I was born at the height of the arcade craze, I never caught Pac-Man fever. Sure, I attended a few Chuck E. Cheese parties as a kid, but by the time I hit puberty, video arcades were already GAME OVER. By the turn of the millennium, home gaming consoles like Nintendo had zapped the public amusement spaces: From 1981 to 1999, combined U.S. arcade revenues dropped from $8 billion to just over $1 billion. As Back to the Future Part II predicted in 1989, video arcades fizzled into a niche nostalgia market propped up by hipster bars. However, these days excitable nerds are once again inserting coins into public gaming spaces, at least virtually.
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Source: Newsweek.

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DYING AGAIN AND AGAIN IN A VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE

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