Every one of us enjoys gaming, for entertainment, for story, for escapism, etc. The industry has seen this and thus created the portable gaming device, oh how wonderful these devices are! After all, they give us the gaming we need when we are outside.

“Outside? Like in the Sun?”

Yeah outside, something you all have experienced before (I hope). What I am getting at is the fact the game companies make these fantastic devices and yet you guys only play them in the dank dungeon of your room. I am sure most of you have jobs, school, or something that involves you getting out of your house but why leave your lonely portable gaming device behind?
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Looking back on arcades as a whole, I’ve noticed a slow decline in clientelle variation.  From the very beginning, as I’ve mentioned before, I remember having all sorts of folks frequenting Ebeneezer’s, all coming together for one common purpose:  To play the vidya.

While there are certainly many people in a modern arcade at any given time, it seems like not only are there fewer females and non-whites, but the few who do visit these places hang around in little cliques.
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