A tourist in San Francisco - old arcade games 2

Some more pictures. At the time many of those were made, there was no telephone, no movies, no radio, no TV, no computer games, no Second Life. This was the most high-tech entertainment. I wish I could bring back some of those inventors and show them what evolved out of their inventions. Also, how society changed, i.e., what is deemed 'acceptable':

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