For retro arcade gamers, the goofy gobble of a dot-devouring Pac-Man is music to the ears. The flashing lights of a pinball machine is brilliant eye candy. The open invitation beat your high score? A persuasive reason to play again … and again.
“It’s a whole exciting world waiting under the glass,” says Chris DeStefano, 53, a gamer and repairman who lives in North Babylon and keeps 40 machines at the 2-month-old High Score Pinball Arcade at the Westfield South Shore Mall buzzing and glowing in all their glory.
“The physicality of interacting with an arcade machine is more exhilarating than a video game,” says DeStefano, who has his own home collection.
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