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⌈ Secret Post #5804 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Hard same, nonny. I spent so much time in arcades like that when I was a kid.

[(Anonymous)]

🎵I saw a Galaga sticker on a Cadillac🎵

[(Anonymous)]

hahahahahaha!

[(Anonymous)]

I can almost smell it. That mix of soda, sweat, cheap candy, old pennies, overheated metal and plastic, and overused body spray.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, same.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget the hair gel, so much hair gel.

[(Anonymous)]

do you not live somewhere where they're making a comeback? my city of about 100k people has two all-ages arcades and two arcade bars. yes, with consoles. nerd nostalgia for the 80s/90s from nerds with money leads to a resurgence.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, a large demographic of nerds with money who are willing to risk COVID/flu don't exist in every city, unfortunately.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've never been to one but there's two arcade cafes within 10km of my brother's house in the city.

[(Anonymous)]

You drastically overestimate the amount of people with enough wealth in my town to support one of these. We're one of the communities left out of the economic recovery, people here are struggling to meet the very lowest basic necessities. Nobody has any free cash for a nostalgia arcade. Even the regular bars have been shutting down due to lack of finances.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah we've got a bunch of them in my city too, both all-ages and arcade bars. haven't had a chance to check any of them out yet for obvious reasons but i'm glad to see they're around.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a similar feeling with pay phones!!! I spent so much of my youth (childhood up to mid/late teens) relying on pay phones a lot! I visited New York City last year for the first time and walking past stands that once used to be a telephone booth/pay phone stand makes me sad that I never got to see New York City in the 1990s (especially like 1997-1999).

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, I think I'm a little young for the arcade nostalgia, but I definitely get nostalgic for payphones! I also get stupidly nostalgic for "smoking" and "non-smoking" areas in public places. I am unquestionably glad that we don't let people smoke in most public venues anymore (god that was fucking insane), but the distant memory of people smoking in the mall food court and shit like that still gives me a weirdly nostalgic pang.

[(Anonymous)]

Pay phones were a huge part of my teenage years too. We still have them in Australia and a few months ago the company that owns them has made all calls within Australia free from any pay phone nation wide. It's pretty awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I miss arcades. I have this intense early memory of going with my dad to the mall arcade, when I was very small and we lived in a city-- I was too young to play most things but I was obsessed with the atmosphere, so our dad-kid time when my sister had solo mom-kid time, we'd just walk around a little and hang out-- we'd look at Waldenbooks, then we'd go to the arcade. He sometimes played the Twilight Zone pinball machine, we sometimes got a cherry icee, but like... I was just INTO the light and the sounds.

When we moved out to the country, the little pizza place backroom had the Simpsons arcade cabinet, and Rampage, and Mortal Kombat. The Round Table a town over had Gauntlet and Marvel vs Capcom. The last arcade I went to, my grandpa took me and my cousins, I beat Darkstalkers IV... and over the years I got to be pretty damn good at skee-ball...

My city now has *one* arcade but it's also a bar and I'm A) medically vulnerable and B) my body hates alcohol so much the smell of other people's drinks will make me sick, so I haven't been.

[mishey22]

I was at one on Thursday, Anon. It was very nostalgic, and my kid got some cool prizes.

We played like 3038023 games with our 25 bucks.