By Вen Li
It is a shame a city of almost one million people has only one real arcade. Southern Fun was established in the heart of Calgary in 1984 alongside many others during the heyday of coin-operated video games, when every strip mall in the city boasted at least one arcade. Now, Southern Fun is alone as… Continue reading Calgary’s last arcade
By Вen Li
New video games are lucky to keep gamers’ attention for six months. Mass-produced cliches and unoriginal gameplay don’t last long the shelves. Very few extraordinary titles–Diablo, Counter-Strike, Quake, StarCraft–can hang on for a year or longer before being binned, but classics are frozen in time in the minds of gamers and at the arcades. Trends… Continue reading Where the games went