Game JAMMA. Updated on 3 May 2021
Everyone remembers their first arcade. For me it was a ramshackle joint dragged around on the back of a van that used to roll into town for a week every September, when you d see if anyone had managed to bump you off the Super Monaco GP leaderboard in the months between each visit. For Nosebleed Interactive s Andreas Firinigl, it was somewhere a bit seedier than that. It was this really grotty one in the back of a dodgy video shop in Stamford, he says over a lunchtime whiskey as we chat online. It had four or five machines - Rolling Thunder, Robocop and this Japanese board that was untranslated so I didn t know exactly what was going on. I was talking about it with a friend recently and he was like oh I remember that place, it had a room for pornos . It was a really grotty shop.