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>I think more broadly, arcades have been coming back in US. Part of it is the nostalgia aspect

For it to be nostalgia, 30+ year olds must be going there. Anybody below that would have been like 10 when arcades were on their last legs, and wouldn't have been allowed to go there as a kid, right?

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Do we have a word for "pining over something you never got to experience?" The whole born in the wrong generation effect. FWIW, arcades were always alive and well in movie theaters. Maybe not the big, expansive arcades, but <30 year olds at least understand the concept (also Dave & Busters, GameWorks, other similar outfits)

Probably not, because this wasn't such a major thing pre 00s - people believed more in the future.

Of course, there also was a better future to believe in, instead of dwindling middle class, and increased insecurity, depression and loneliness.

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