Arcadia

The lure of arcade games caught me right from the moment I had too little money to spend on them. At school the only science subject worth remaining half awake for was Physics. So it is with some relief that I feel arcade games helped me achieve a fairly good understanding of Biology too. Examples abound:

Rampage taught me that Apes and Humans are more closely related than even Darwin suspected. Throw enough sticks of dynamite at a four-storey tall gorilla and he'll turn into a weedy bloke sporting a loincloth. Oh yes.
Joust offers a bewildering array of wildlife tips. Firstly, contrary to popular belief, pterodactyls could fly by flapping their wings in the same manner as birds. Secondly, it is possible to mount a buzzard without the RSPB becoming involved.
Every arcade game ever would have us believe that Death Is Not The End:

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As an atheist, I believe that death is the end. However, as an arcadian, I believe I'll be reincarnated as one of the zombies in Ghosts N' Goblins. Woo hoo!

I won't even start on the way arcade games warped my historical perspective.

My favourite arcade game of all time is Star Force.