he seaside day trip remains an almost essential component of the school summer holidays, and although the big beachfront arcades have changed a lot over the last decade, they are still a magnet for small kids with handfuls of change, as well as adults hoping to spy an old Space Invaders cabinet in the back. As a child of the 1980s, coin op video games were an obsession, but what really fascinated me were the older machines, the electro mechanical oddities that hung on into the digital age. Here...
