Specifically, operators of four rest stops have removed -- at the state's request -- arcade games with guns or "shooting components, " said Sara Lavoie, a spokeswoman for Massachusetts' Department of Transportation.

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Other items coming under the hammer next week include the heart, eye and brains from the giant Body, arcade games and children's rides, and the exotic costumes from the Millennium Show.

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With the several megabits of needed data stored momentarily on the PowerVR itself, the chip runs at 3 million polygons a second -- three times as fast as the latest arcade games, and 15 times the speed of Sony's PlayStation.

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Gordon Lee's Eldorado Auto Skooter on Surf Avenue has an arcade room with nearly 40 percent fewer arcade games, after salt water ruined much of the machinery.

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Atari's Pong was an arcade game credited with helping kick-start the multi-billion pound video games industry but more recent titles include 'Centipede', 'Missile Command' and Rollercoaster Tycoon'.

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Another one of Reid's favorite spots in Moscow is the very small Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, which houses old video games from the Soviet era that you can play.

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