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:

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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.