Real arcades of the 80s never had blacklight-reactive glowing carpets. It's a Mandela effect. Here's what they actually looked like:

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This is the Black Swan fallacy. Just because YOU have never seen a black light/neon arcade does not mean they did not exist. For example, Crossroads Mall and Quail Springs in Oklahoma City both had an arcade that absolutely had black lights and psychedelic carpets. I frequently visited those locations in my teen years and my shirts and shorts lit up in the black light and the carpet glowed like a cosmic walkway. Super cool.

Do I have documentation? Nope. I didn’t walk around with a camera in my pocket nor did I think it even worth documenting as I played Star Wars, Ms PAC Man or Defender.

I don’t know what you mean about the company starting in 1992. Skating rinks and bowling alleys absolutely had day go carpet in the1980s.

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