You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike
I get lost in places like this, arcades with rows of games, multiple floors, each one a bizarre wonder I only ever knew from pictures in magazines. It feels like I could be anywhere when I stumble into one of them, only passively aware of where here actually is, up winding sets of stairs in nowhere buildings filled with smoke and a hundred digital characters screaming all at once. Here on the third floor of Magical, literally across the street from another game center called SANX, for some Street Fighter IV, I feel like if it weren't for the machines with the HD screens, I could be back in 1998.