No Country for Old Arcades
January 24th, 2008 Seth KillianJared Rea of Gametap digs into the difficulties faced by US arcades by profiling a Bay Area landmark, Sunnyvale Golfland (SVGL). He looks back at SVGL’s legacy as a hotbed for testing new arcade games, talks to Street Fighter legend John Choi (an SVGL customer for over 15 years), and about how the location has withstood the challenges of a changing videogame landscape. Fun stuff–check it out here.










dope article. What I’d like to see is a comments thread for the whiteboard, and an archive of all past whiteboards. That’s my favorite part of the site.