Let's Talk Ten

EP. #75: OLD-SCHOOL ARCADE GAMES with Billy Smith

DAN FISHER

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BILLY SMITH – owner and operator of Billy’s Midway Arcade in Hawthorne, NJ – joins Dan to talk about their favorite all-time old-school arcade games: Pinball, Skee-ball, Pong, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Pole Position, Tetris, House of the Dead, even claw machines.

It’s a fun and fast-paced conversation about the histories of these games and the tech wizards who created them; the enormous impact on they had on our culture, popular and otherwise; and why pinball is the most poetic of all the arcade games.

 Recorded live from Billy’s Midway.

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