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Arcades began to shift from pinball machines to videogames, and by the 1980s Nintendo was well positioned when the personal-gaming trend exploded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Arcades -- seen in the 1970s and 1980s as dark, male-dominated places linked to crime -- "tried to attract a new audience" of women and families, Bottos said.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

Arcades contained machines that enabled people to watch short films for a small sum.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Arcades open daily, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2022

Within the next seven years he wrote the most noteworthy of his shorter poems: the masque, "Comus"; the pastoral piece entitled "Arcades"; the beautiful descriptive poems, "L'Allegro" and "II Penseroso"; and the elegy, "Lycidas."

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James