>> As a kid, the best access to video games was going on vacation where they had entire arcades full of these machines.
When I was a kid, the arcade in the basement of the Park City Mall was better than any place we ever went on vacation. My Mom hated that place, it was dark and dingy and she considered it to be where the ‘bad kids’ hung out, but at the time, I considered it to be literally the greatest place on earth. They eventually gutted it, it’s where the food court and the lower level of Kohl’s are now. Another part of my childhood murdered.