Mall visits for kids in the 1970s and early 1980s had to include a stop at Space Port, a chain of video arcades that found their way into shopping malls.
Space Port didn’t survive when home video consoles showed up,.
Now, Brian Nelson has opened a classic video arcade in Bristol that has all the childhood video games, from Pac Man to Frogger and Donkey Kong to Space Invaders, writes JD Mulane for Bucks County Courier Times, as reported in yahoo!life.
The Players Only Arcade opened in October at 201 Radcliffe Street, in a former insurance sales office.
“I’m trying to recreate the whole vibe of that era,” said Nelson 53.
His own experience with arcade games started at Gerome’s Deli.
“All the neighborhood kids would flock there,” he said. “They always had a couple of arcade games in there.”
He got nostalgic for the old video games in his 30s and started collecting them.
“It was never my intention to open an arcade, but it became a bit of an addiction and the next thing you know I had over 50 games, so, I decided to open an arcade,” he said.
Read more about this nostalgic video arcade in Bristol in Yahoo!life
