While to audiences today the word arcade may conjure up images of video game cabinets and redemption games, the concept of a gaming parlor goes back decades before Computer Space was ever a gleam in Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney’s eyes. Before video games, you had electromechanical machines like Sega’s Periscope or Williams’ United Century Bowling Alley. And alongside those –and for decades earlier – you had pinball.
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