As we get into return outs, we're not talking about the worst X-Men villain.

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Everyone, welcome to a RetroNots East. I'm Jerry Parish.

And this week we're talking about the classic days of the American Arcade,

which is something we've kind of covered before, but this is going to be different. It's going to be a

loose, freeform approach. For example, I don't know if this is going to be a full episode or a

micro episode. We're just kind of winging it, but I do know that we're not going to talk about

arcade from the X-Bin because that guy sucked and all of his stories were stupid and he was in a

bad video game. So instead of talking about that, let's talk about the good stuff about arcades,

like going to coin up machines and putting quarters in and hanging out at pizza joints and watching

weird scary robot animals sing. And here to talk with me about these things this week, we have

Enginworks and also Ben Elgin who is fresh from the Clipsland and I can see the crescent shaped

scars that are down to your eyes. Totally, totally. You did a trump, didn't you? You looked directly

at the end. Mostly managed to use the glasses. Oh, okay. Well, that was good thinking.

Clearly, you're unfit to be president. Yeah, yeah. So this episode is the first that we're recording

in something that I hope will be kind of a loose tentative series of sorts of episodes really

based around recollections and not so much about hard facts and info and research and that sort of

thing. But more about our personal experiences, playing video games and the kind of the processes

that we went through, the things that have vanished now, like the things that we did in the past

and you can't really do now because those cultures and those technologies are gone. And this was

kind of Benj's idea. Yeah. So I do a lot of writing. Take credit for it. Well, thank you. I do a

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