arcade

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Woolwich Crown Court was told the teenagers believed Cashford, 49, was a paedophile after he met the girl by chance at an amusement arcade two days earlier and gave her his phone number.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

The AI demonstration by Alibaba Cloud is a futuristic version of those arcade games where you maneuver a metal claw to grab a stuffed animal.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

In the early 1960s, Meyer and his boss, Marvin Glass, who founded the Chicago toy-design firm, visited an arcade to seek inspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

I suggested Nintendo World, which was apparently too close to arcade games for someone—cough, cough.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera