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Arcades: Nostalgia Abounds

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The Golden Age of Video Games

Atari went from not existing to coming out with its first game in 1971. In 1982 there were 13,000 arcades in the US and let's just get the straight five six years before there were probably zero. There were tons of companies that were getting into creating and designing and building these stand-up cabinets That were sent to all of these 13,000arcades in the United States. It was like a dead man walking you didn't know it.

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