/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8636971
>lol I remember all of those panics
I could literally write a book about the bullshit people honestly believed and "made viral" via word-of-mouth in the days before the internet. Frankly, I'm sure someone already has. There should be a chapter devoted to arcade myths. I occasionally talk to people near my age who seem to remember their local arcade being this dark, smoke filled den of murderers and rapists that they never went to out of fear for their life. Mind you, this inevitably turns out to be the "Fun n' Games" at the mall next to the pet store, or the rec center in the "seedy" (i.e. predominantly black and/or hispanic) part of town. They can never explain exactly what was going on in there that was so horrific, nor can they explain why there exists absolutely zero media coverage of this apparent nationwide crime epidemic. The "think of the children" generation must have completely missed all this happening in their own backyards. They certainly can't explain why I never had (or even saw) a single issue amidst the dozens of video arcades I frequented in my misspent youth.

Pic related. You can actually see the child molesters touching kids if you look hard enough.