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The two names over the mall's darkest storefront: Aladdin's Castle, Bally's chain of carpeted, token-fed game rooms, and Tilt, its Texas-born rival. Between them they put an arcade in hundreds of American malls, and a generation traded quarters for tokens under their signs.
The gloriously weird PS2 game where you roll a sticky ball that picks up thumbtacks, then cats, then cars, then whole skyscrapers. A candy-colored oddity with an unforgettable soundtrack that became an instant cult classic.
The arcade gun game with a foot pedal: step on it to pop out and shoot, let go to duck behind a crate and reload while the clock ran down. Namco's 1995 cabinet made everyone in the arcade look like they were stomping a bug.