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Article: The demi-paradise: Martin Plimmer explores the zombie delights on offer at London's neon Segaworld
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Like nature, the Trocadero abhors a vacuum. Unlike nature, it
fills it with oversize TV screens, popping strobes and more noise
than you can properly accommodate with only two ears. If you walked
through the Trocadero shouting through a megaphone, wearing a neon
hat, nobody would notice you.
Six floors of this roaring building are sub-let to Sega, and
filled up with fighting and racing video games, along with six
rides and a stall selling donuts and frozen slush (the preferred
food of sonic hedgehogs). The machines stand in clumps, baying for
human attention.
They are looped to the death, obsessively replaying the same
dizzying Formula One circuit, or 24-stone virtual Sumo wrestler
hitting ...