Caracas, Venezuela is home to a massive skyscraper: The Centro Financiero Confinanzas. It stands unfinished in the Venezuelan capital and has become home to over 2500 squatters seeking shelter. Of course, there are parts of the building that are open for business. The tower hosts a stores, rec rooms, bars and a dentist’s office. It also has an arcade…sort of.

Humberto Hidalgo, a 23 year old immigrant from Colombia, has four television sets in his living room. To each, he has attached a good old PlayStation home console. For a pair of quarters, similar to the old cabinet arcades of retro gaming youth, children can sit in front of a console for a half an hour and play.

And he is busy. It might not have all the feel of the old county fair arcades and Chuck E. Cheese, but it is a pretty good deal for the situation. Kids may not have the opportunity to playBlack Ops or other super modern games, but they can sure get a feel for what we call classics. These will be their old arcade memories twenty years from now. Think of them as modern retro gamers in training and read more about it here

Squatters love the PlayStation arcade, 4.8 out of 5 based on 5 ratings

Tags: Sony PS1

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