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But what happens when that physical space disappears? What happens when the mall closes, the power is cut, and the last CRT monitor flickers into darkness?

And the high score is still flashing. It has been waiting for you all this time.

Thus, the is literally a racecourse of the arcade —a liminal, often imaginary, space where the act of playing the game becomes the act of traversing a landscape. It is not merely a room full of cabinets; it is a state of being .