Game NOT over yet. Hey, you old-school gamers: Maybe I can help you with some spring vacation plans.Pac (Man) your bags and saddle up your donkey (Kong) for an Atari safari down memory lane.

I will always remember the day my son Andrew was a little boy and played a Simpson's video game for hours non-stop in the Southgate Mall arcade until he actually won! His palm and fingers were blistered and calloused from moving that big plastic ball around. And I probably dropped a week's pay of tokens into it for him. But he won and the smile was priceless!

Now, that was probably the mid-1990s, but you can go back even further in time at the Retro Game Exhibit and the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis. The exhibit has proved so popular (in part because it looks like some of it is "hands on") that it will remain open for at least another four months. It's set up to look an arcade you would have found in malls back in the 1980s. The curator says it takes visitors back to their childhoods. Or, maybe at least close in some of our cases, right?

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