One of my favourite T-shirts was created to promote The Lost Arcade, the 2015 documentary that told the story behind the closure of New York’s Chinatown Fair arcade in 2011. I never visited Chinatown Fair, but its story of friendships found and lost amid the merciless tides of technology and commerce summed up the dismal fate of arcades worldwide.
When I was growing up in the ’90s, arcades were already on the downswing. Outside of my visits tomachine, and whisper tales of Konami’s fullbody motion-tracking lightgun game
