One of my first experiences at an arcade came during a trip to Springfield, Missouri, in 1984. We had just moved to Lebanon when Dad and Mom surprised us with a trek to ShowBiz Pizza, at the time the coolest place an 8-year-old could be. ShowBiz hasn’t been a thing since the early 1990s, when […]
I’ve written quite a bit about video games and vintage arcades in this space. At 45, I spent a few hours last weekend playing Cyberball 2072 on my Playstation 2. It’s a classic arcade game featuring robots playing football, and it’s been one of my favorites since my college roommate and I spent hours on
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Malls and the 1980s went hand-in-hand. Especially during the holidays. For years, Mom and Dad made enough money at various malls to get us through the offseason on the craft show circuit. Unfortunately for my brother and I, that meant spending little time with our parents from Thanksgiving to Christmas. One year, we stayed with
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