Arcade

A million messy little hands hammering away at colored buttons amidst the sounds of battle cries and huge explosions. The days of delight playing inside this cavern of grand imagination and thumb warrior skill-masters is a never ending joy that every brilliant child, be they 4 or 45, is eventually drawn to. In some countries, some types of video arcades are legally allowed to provide gambling machines such as slot machines and pachinko machines. Large arcades may also have small coin-operated ride-on toys for small children. Some businesses, such as Dave & Buster's, combine a bar and restaurant with a video arcade. Arcades catering to video games began to gain momentum in the late 1970s with games such as Space Invaders (1978) and Galaxian (1979) and became widespread in 1980 with Pac-Man, Centipede and others. The central processing unit in these games allowed for more complexity than earlier discrete circuitry games such as Atari's Pong (1972). This sound uses the following file from Soundsnap:http://www.soundsnap.com/amb_int_bowling_alley_arcade_01