AS A CHILD of the 1990s growing up in Northeast Pennsylvania, Mark Kleback spent much of his spare time loitering in roller rinks, bowling alleys, pizza joints, malls—anywhere with a videogame arcade. “It was just where you congregated as kids to hang out,” he said. These public venues became, for a long while, the videogame’s natural habitat after it emerged from university laboratories in the early 1970s. But eventually home-videogame technology caught up and public arcades lost their luster. Why pump in quarters for each...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 09, 2018 17:50 UTC