Few sights and sounds define a decade quite like the cacophony of noise and neon-soaked signs that adorned the local arcade.

A UVA graduate student is documenting the overlooked “Bronze Age” of arcade gaming before its stories disappear.

Arcade gaming once defined an entire era of video games, but is now buried under modern-age titles. However, it didn’t happen overnight. It was actually a slow collapse. Arcade gaming generated ...