Well, as far as displacing and the newspaper headline, there was click bait before there were clicks. I mean they displaced games in dive bars in a few states but they didn't displace arcade games anywhere our generation played them unless they let you into bars in the 1980s when you were a little kid. The places I saw arcade games were arcades, restaurants, convenience stores and grocery stores and those never got displaced. The first time I ever had the opportunity to play a gambling machine was when I was 18 with a fake ID in a bar, but that was mid/late 90s Cadillac Jack era.
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