Before Xbox and PlayStation; pre-Wii… videogames were played in chirruping, neon-drenched city-centre caverns called ‘amusement arcades’. Gamers couldn’t skulk behind online aliases or anonymous WiFi multiplayer; they had to get out there and perform live, in front of watchful peers, suspicious arcade owners and surly old ladies with little trays of 10p pieces. The King Of Kong catches up with two very different players from the era’s mid-’80s boomtime, their adult motivations now darker than bagging the playground bragging rights...
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