Next up: Player 1; Marshfield, Mass ends 32 year ban on arcade games.

[Generic Eric]

All the articles look the same after awhile, so here is a few links and the meat w/out the gristle. 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/05/24/marshfield-freed-from-ban-arcade-games/gA2Ds6zInxlObrnPcs8d9K/story.html

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/massachusetts-town-ends-32-year-ban-on-arcade-games/1100-6419363/

Residents at town meeting voted to overturn a 1982 bylaw banning coin-operated video and arcade games from Marshfield businesses. The vote was 203-175. The measure required a majority vote.
The proposal was brought as a petition by resident Craig Rondeau, who said the ban on arcade games never made sense to him, even as a fourth-grader.
“I was sitting thinking, ‘why is this illegal in my town, to have fun with my friends,’” he said, recalling a visit to a Hanover arcade as a child.

[spoot]

Wow, looks like 175 people still need a clue-bat upside the head.

[pbj]

 “Your parents would give you a couple quarters while they had a beer at the bar, then one day they were gone. We said, ‘Why?’ And the answer was, ‘It’s a bad influence. It corrupts kids.’ It felt like those movies they show in school where someone smokes weed and then starts howling at the moon. It was ridiculous.”

 

[vorghagen]

"When that was done, he took a moment to admire his name on the screen. Then he asked for more quarters so he could try to beat his high score."

That brought a smile to my face. It sums up so much of what I love about this hobby.