Sigh... I was lucky to have a ton of arcades by me growing up in Overland Park, Kansas. King Louie Bowling had an enormous pin/arcade collection. Red Baron in the Metcalf South Mall. Oak Park Mall and Bannister Mall had Fun Factories. Malibu Grand Prix, Putt-Putt Golf N Games... literally a dozen or more places with several having hundreds of arcades and dozens of pins.

I wonder how today's kids are going to reflect on their middle-school and high-school years. We had bikes, movie theaters, drive-ins, arcades, public pools, virtually no adult supervision. What are they going to have? "I played a ton of Fortnite in between my basketball training while making TikTok videos." Lame as hell. I truly feel bad for them. While they have the freedom to explore the world virtually, they don't have it physically. And social media has made what I would have considered even a reasonably optimistic world (and this is at the height of Cold War tensions, Iran hostage crisis, etc.) a total negative, divisive shit show.