https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1296960751928827906
She re-tweeted this. It’s a picture of a change machine. At first, I thought it was something to do with laundromats because that’s the only place I’ve seen something like that. And surely that specific model hasn’t been made past the 1970s.
But no, it says:
There was nothing like the satisfying sound of sticking a five in one of these sweet bastards and getting dispensed 20 passports to arcade pleasure.
The guy who wrote that must be at least 50 years old. Yeah, everything on that Twitter is about 70s *nostalgia*. It’s sad, frankly. Join us in the present.
I’m ten years older than Erin and I recognised that machine and arcade *nostalgia* as before my time. So why the fuck is Erin *nostalgic* for this?
I’ve never been to an arcade. I don’t even know if one ever even existed in my hometown. By the time I was old enough to start going to arcades, it was the late 80s. Arcades were gone. Arcades had a brief moment in the sun from the late 70s to the mid 80s at the latest. Once the NES came out, it was over for arcades.
The closest I’ve been is at like carnivals. There would be a tent with some arcade games in it. This must have been in the early 90s. Street Fighter 2 was there. And it was all passe even then. Just the whole concept of an arcade.
I’ve also played arcade games at bowling alleys, community centers, and fucking Pizza Hut.
Erin has talked about her experience with arcades before. Pizza Hut. That’s it. She played some game at Pizza Hut. Briefly. Once. And she thought, “One day, I’m going to do this on stream, for money” not quite understanding what that meant or how it would work.
I’d watch fucking Silver Spoons with that gay kid with the arcade machines in his home and I didn’t identify with this at all. This was in the late 80s. I was watching them as reruns. The show ran from 1982 to 1987. It was totally foreign to me. It was old-fashioned. Even though it was only from a few years earlier, I had no memory of this time period. I wasn’t old enough to be able to form memories of this. So it might as well have been from 100 years ago.
That’s why I have no *nostalgia* for arcades. It’s before my time. Just like I don’t have *nostalgia* for disco or LSD or poodle skirts.
And yet Erin claims to be *nostalgic* for arcades. It doesn’t make sense. She’s said that she’s never been to one.
She’s just saying that because she thinks that that’s what “gamers” talk about. They talk about arcades. Hey guys! Remember arcades? No. No, I don’t. I was born too late.
She doesn’t realise that the people who are *nostalgic* for arcades are in their 50s now. Like that sad bastard who posted the original tweet. He’s all broken down now. They finally laid him off from the factory. Trying to remember better days. Say, brotha! Remember Wonder Woman? That Lynda Carter was one foxy mama. Keep on trucking.
Anyway, I’m going to go play the Patty Duke Game now. I’m so *nostalgic* for it.