Bootleg Arcades - Brazil's Pirate Amusement Centres

A brief reflection on the Brazilian arcade scene

To anyone with at least a passing interest in arcade video games, bootlegs shouldn't be an unfamiliar topic. From the broken likes of Street Fighter II: Rainbow Edition to the more recent joys of suspicious identicabs from China, most people have played an illegitimate machine, whether knowingly or not. However, something less common is a bootleg arcade…