Arcade Games: Art Not Meant to Be Seen

YouTube and emulation make it possible to widely preserve these cultural artifacts.

I’m a video game fan and collector, though I haven’t followed consoles or PC gaming for at least 15 years. Rather, I love the games spanning the mid-80s to the mid-90s, whether for home consoles or arcades. Despite the constraints of then-current technology, game designers of this era perfected and refined 2D sprite-based games to a true art form. While…