> Arcades that had an adult population and allowed smoking might be trashy. The only > smoking one in town being adults-only after seven or eight, and it wasn't trashy.
Everything allowed smoking in the 80s. It's arguably the most startling thing about popping Ghostbusters into your Blu-ray: everyone smokes, everywhere, all the time. Now it's mostly seen as a scheme for wayward artists to get extra break time.
And yes, arcades, even in malls, were dark and occasionally scary. That's a large part of the mythos, even if some people overstate it a bit.
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