Cross Shot Ball - Arcade - The arcade may be nearly a complete relic of the past in 2022--especially post-COVID--but if you play video games, you owe it a debt of gratitude. Not only were some of the biggest video game franchises of all time birthed in the arcade, but these enormous wooden cabinets kept the medium afloat after systems like the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and ColecoVision went belly-up in the early '80s.