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THE ARCADE

FAMILIARITY: LOWFEELING: SLIGHTLY WRONGLOCAL TIME: 10:44 PM
THE ARCADE — Every machine is on. Every machine is waiting.
16 / THE ARCADE10:44 PM
10:44 PM · PUBLIC

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Each circle is something in the room. Click one and the photograph moves in on it, close enough to see what it actually is — and what it turns out to be about. One detail in this photograph is not marked.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

Dark ceiling, carpet designed to glow, a corridor of attract screens looping demonstrations of games with no players.

Attract mode is one of the strangest inventions in entertainment: a machine performing enthusiasm at an empty room.

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EVERY PHOTOGRAPH HERE IS STILL. NOTHING MOVES UNLESS YOU CLICK IT.

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