DRINK AND REVIVE: THE RISE OF BARCADE
As reported on Polygon. By Simon Parkin Video games owe a great deal to the American bar. It was here, on sticky carpets, before glinting taps and amidst woozy patrons, that the medium made its public debut — when Atari founder Nolan Bushnell installed his first arcade cabinet, Computer Space, in the Dutch Goose near Stanford University in 1971. The video game — a homeless invention — flourished in the drinking context. A year afterComputer Space‘s arrival…