The dingy, raw feeling of the subculture has faded somewhat — the majority of American gaming arcades have closed down — but the community has maintained its spirit.
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Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
Ditto the period production and costume design, exactingly dingy in each detail from clunky rotary phones to knobbly knitwear, but without a hint of retro-fab nostalgia: If the past is a foreign country, the future, or at least the ’90s, beckons with some promise of home.
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