Xavier Woods

Normally, if we're staying in a town before a show, I'll go to a barcade. Those are dive bars that have tons of arcades, since there aren't a ton of arcades where kids can put quarters in games and actually have that kind of arcade experience.

American Wrestler

D. B. Weiss

When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.

American Author

Yoko Taro

I have liked games for a very long time but when I saw 'Gradius' at the arcade as a junior high student, I became certain that in the future all forms of entertainment will be taken over by video games.

Japanese Director

Aisha Tyler

I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.

American Actress

Thundercat

Mortal Kombat,' the first arcade one, that soundtrack sounds like a Chick Corea album.

American Musician

Lindsey Buckingham

Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.

Charlie Brooker

In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.

English Critic

Eugene Jarvis

To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.

American Scientist

Roger Avary

I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.

Canadian Producer

Jane Lynch

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

Arcades provide a protected walking area, good for shopping regardless of weather.

Sheltered Shopping

Many old arcades preserve historical architecture, adding charm to shopping experiences.

Historical Charm

An arcade is not the same as a mall; it's usually one passageway, while a mall is larger.

Not a Mall

Arcades are fun places, usually noisy, with bright lights from the many gaming machines.

Entertainment Hub

Games in arcades are often coin-operated, needing money to play.

Coin Operated

Arcades encourage playing with friends, offering multiplayer games and competitions.

Social Play

In architecture, an arcade is a series of arches, not necessarily for shopping.

Architectural Feature

Arcades in buildings add elegance and are often used in classical design.

Design Elegance

When related to architecture, 'arcade' doesn't refer to video games at all.

Not Games

 of those units in the real world. This is a video chat application. It's amazing how much emotion you can convey with just a few simple movements of a physical object. With this interface, we open up a huge array of possibilities in between traditional board games and arcade games,

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 find their way to shops and services using the pedestrian walkways or the arcade this city has to be real for them it has to work for them and it will they have the commitment and the political will of their leaders they have the passion from us to be a part of this

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 at all hours of the day. Early in the morning, sunlight rakes the facades, sharpening shadows, and at night, lamplight segments the buildings into hundreds of distinct areas, balconies and windows and arcades, each one a separate pocket of visual activity.

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 In a way, you can see how video games are the purest aspect of interaction design and are very useful to explain what interaction is. We don't want to show the video games with the paraphernalia. No arcade nostalgia. If anything, we want to show the code,

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 arcades and there were people having coffee and laughing and moving around talking to each other and I looked at my husband and said these people are having more fun than we are and that was kind of first realization that Italy has a

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 but with the rise of arcades and then internet play, and now massively multiplayer games of huge, thriving online communities, games have emerged as the one form of entertainment where consumption truly requires human connection.

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 on a video device. Simple. Video games are used by scientists, the military, and people like you, and their evolution has spread across arcades, consoles, computers, smart phones,

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 After a long day working on the local particle accelerator, you and your friends head to the arcade to unwind. The lights go out for a second, and when they come back,

This thought experiment...

 photograph of the Imperial archery target and Zen archery arcade deep within the Imperial Palace and the same

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 I was 14 years old inside of a bowling alley, burglarizing an arcade game, and upon exiting the building

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