I can still remember my first exposure to video games. It was during my dad's (second) wedding. My grandfather told me he had something to show me. He brought

I can still remember my first exposure to video games. It was during my dad's (second) wedding. My grandfather told me he had something to show me. He brought me into the bar at the reception hall, and sat me down in front of a Space Invaders machine with a stack of quarters. The rest is history. Just thinking about this now, I'm re-experiencing the darkened environment of video arcade, with weird electronic noises from every direction. I had a few quarters in my pocket, and I was trying to decide which machine to spend them on. The movies War Games and Tron may be iconic, but their portrayals of video arcades really didn't match my own experiences.