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> And sometimes we would attempt to socialize with whatever person happened to be nearby, even a complete stranger.

I think this is the core reason for so much video arcade machine related nostalgia. Those that experienced this the first time around will know about stacking coins on the machines, playing against those you didn't know and so on. Now that is back to table football etc. but an entire category came and went in the space of 30 years.



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