Do you think 80’s arcades were dark rooms with colorful carpets and neon lights? That was hardly the truth. This video does a fantastic job covering the diverse aesthetics of several chains of amusement centers as they tried to distance themselves from the seedy establishments where teenagers would skip school.
Most of the arcades I remember from my childhood in the 80s were just dark rooms period lol like just dark enough that you couldn’t see how disgusting the carpet was! The only neon lights were on the arcade machines themselves