Pat Miller"Have you ever really looked at an arcade cabinet? Most casual arcade-goers don't." Pat Miller talk about his lost home, BEARcade.
Issue 24 - Season's Goodbyes
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Original Comment by: Andrea Appel (a.k.a. Alexandra Erenhart)
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Beautiful, simply beautiful... Is hard to grow old, to see the places you used to hang out and meet friends disappear, where you used to spend hours entertaining yourself and challenging others... I've seen it too many times here. New generations and new trends will always push aside what the past one used to love. It was our time, when we were young. Now is the time for the next one, and the only thing we can do, is sit and see boxes filling a truck....
I won't say more, otherwise I'll get depressed :S
Good and sweet article.
http://aerenhart.blogspot.com
Beautiful, simply beautiful... Is hard to grow old, to see the places you used to hang out and meet friends disappear, where you used to spend hours entertaining yourself and challenging others... I've seen it too many times here. New generations and new trends will always push aside what the past one used to love. It was our time, when we were young. Now is the time for the next one, and the only thing we can do, is sit and see boxes filling a truck....
I won't say more, otherwise I'll get depressed :S
Good and sweet article.
Original Comment by: Brian Darnell
II remember going to the Underground in my junior high and highschool days, back to the late eighties even. I have fond memories of that place. It's sad that it is gone now. I remember the Punch Out machine by the entrance, and the Streetfighter 2 machines with people constantly around them.
II remember going to the Underground in my junior high and highschool days, back to the late eighties even. I have fond memories of that place. It's sad that it is gone now. I remember the Punch Out machine by the entrance, and the Streetfighter 2 machines with people constantly around them.
Original Comment by: Bonnie Ruberg
http://www.heroine-sheik.com
The more we live in virtual worlds - both online and in increasingly realistic console games - the more I think we lose sight of video games as physical objects that impact us in physical ways. I had never thought about arcades in the way you discussed them, Pat, nor had the opportunity to appreciate them in their hayday, but it was so refreshing to hear how they affected you, how they took on meaning in your life, in a mode so normal and yet so unexpected.
http://www.heroine-sheik.com
The more we live in virtual worlds - both online and in increasingly realistic console games - the more I think we lose sight of video games as physical objects that impact us in physical ways. I had never thought about arcades in the way you discussed them, Pat, nor had the opportunity to appreciate them in their hayday, but it was so refreshing to hear how they affected you, how they took on meaning in your life, in a mode so normal and yet so unexpected.