Guard at the old Cumberland Mall gave me a tour of the closed arcade

Last month I was poking around the empty wing near Sears at Cumberland Mall in Atlanta and this old security guard named Dave walked up. Instead of telling me to leave, he showed me the old Aladdin's Castle arcade that's been locked up since about 2012 still with some games inside. He told me they left the Street Fighter II machine running for 3 days after the power got cut before it finally died. Has anyone else run into a cool employee like that who shared some history?

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lucas16513h ago

I mean it's a cool story and all but people act like an old Street Fighter cabinet is some kind of historical artifact. It was probably just a broken machine with a dead monitor that flickered for a couple hours before it finally stopped.