It's a little weird to me to think of 50+ year olds hanging out at arcades.
I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and pinball/video arcades were the domain of middle and high school kids, roughly 12-16 years of age. It was a place to hang out before you were old enough to drive. There were very few adults there, certainly nobody 50-60 years old.
It was, but there were pinball machines at bars then too. Its not new. As an 18 year old we played pinball and drank the bar closed.
Although I must say my older brothers friends loved Space Invaders. I don't know maybe the coke and pot led to arrested development. I never got into video games, whether it was Tron, Pac Man, or Pong.
I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and pinball/video arcades were the domain of middle and high school kids, roughly 12-16 years of age. It was a place to hang out before you were old enough to drive. There were very few adults there, certainly nobody 50-60 years old.