This nostalgia-packed Flickr gallery is filled with images of 1970s American videogame arcades - apparently the creator of the page found most of photos in a dumpster. Who could possibly throw them away? You can have hours of fun:
1. Trying to identify the cabinets (it's tough, they're mostly late-seventies machines) 2. Admiring the clothes. These are the seventies outfits that current retro-obsessed fashion mags choose to forget. No floaty skirts or hipster flares here. This is the geek seventies. Awkard men in polyester and extremely tight t-shirts. And sometimes cowboy hats.
I love the design of these arcades. They're utopian visions of 'family amusement', like hyperreal Disney movies but with faintly sinister echoes of THX 1138. People look at the machines with unselfconscious amazement.
Of course, these could all have been taken yesterday at any Middle American mall.
Via UK:R
