Arcades during the 1980s were the place to be. The digitized siren songs of newly developing computer arcade games mixed with the bells, whistles, thumps, and flipper flaps of the long-established pinball machine combined to make the din emanating from these hallowed halls the background noise for an entire generation of kids. Interestingly, the earliest form of ‘pinball’ traces its roots back to a French game called Bagatelle, which started as a lawn game and morphed into a table game during the late
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