Im probably in the very very small minority of people who still love and go to arcades. Its such a great place to meet like minded nerds. We are lucky to have 2 really awesome ones in town, one of which has a lot of good old machines, and they repair them too. They have some new ones that are OK too.
Anyway, I dont like that they changed to the dumb card thing. I get it (efficiency, capitalism, it was bound to happen) but it removes another visceral experience in society that was so fun.
Anyway, my old man rant!
I have literally never seen someone wipe down an arcade machine in the 5 decades I’ve spent playing video games in public. You just have to assume a kid touched it and it’s covered in snot. But it’s like owning a cat. You just have to not think about it too much.
But yeah…. You’re actually both right. Money is really gross. So is everything else in public, or the world for that matter. It’s why we have immune systems. Can’t just accept that everything has to be gross though, we also need to keep things sanitary. But we can’t clean everything all the time! So how clean is clean enough? Everyone draws that line in a slightly different place.
And so here we are.
The arcades I go to have wipe stations, multiple through out the arcade. Covid made them mandatory.