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The arcade, for many, was a place that was called home when home itself felt like alien territory. To be surrounded by likeminded people of your own age, to be overwhelmed by the bright lights, the echoing sound of coexistence and the constant range of voices in their angst as they took on ghosts, space invaders with repeated taps of an enticing button and the joystick which was handled by a thousand kids in their retreat into a world of machines and wires, the system that spawned a generation of teenagers to understand that what they needed was community, not derision and ridicule.