In Glendale, Gene Lewin has amassed a bounty of pinball machines and old-school video games. There are about 80 inside the Vintage Arcade Superstore showroom, with more stored in his three warehouses.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — There's something about the lights and sounds of an arcade. "Playing 'Space Invaders' in an original 1978 cabinet, it has a hologram effect, it has black light," said Peter ...