Kill Screen

High scores are deadly business

Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash

She walked up to the front door of Adelardo’s Pizza just as the men were unloading the new addition. It had been years since she’d seen an authentic arcade cabinet, let alone a vintage one like this — original panels judging by the decades of scuffs and whacks by impatient brats. They moved the machine into a corner between the big window facing the street and a row of booths and returned…