The key historical context this article omits is that they&#x27;re a social time diversion.  The arcades are a <i>place</i> facilitated by the games.  Focusing on the games is like focusing on the highway in a road trip.  It&#x27;s about being with friends.<p>Phone games surely have the potential to do that, and probably some of them do, but if you look at Bushnell&#x27;s other works, the restaurants, the Atarti C-380, he was trying to improve social activities via graphics&#x2F;gaming.<p>The Nintendo CEO guy has said the same thing with respect to controller design facilitating other people to see how your hands move.