{"id":372,"date":"2009-04-04T01:05:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T06:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=372"},"modified":"2010-12-17T00:43:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T05:43:16","slug":"robos-video-arcade-k-mart-outparcel-garners-ferry-road-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Robo's Video Arcade, K-Mart outparcel Devine Street: 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/04\/robos_kmart01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/04\/robos_kmart01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wrote at some length about <i>Robo's<\/i> <a href =\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13\">on Main Street<\/a> some time ago, and that's the location I overwhelmingly went to to hone my <i>Galaga<\/i> skills (and by <i>hone<\/i>, I mean, I was \"ok\").  That made sense as I <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=52\">lived across the street<\/a> from there, but when I was home and had access to a car, I would come to this location from time to time.  I recently parked near there to get some pictures of the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=341\">Advance Auto Parts<\/a> demolition, and decided to take this shot.<\/p>\n<p>At this remove, I'm not entirely sure which storefront <i>Robo's<\/i> was, but I think it was the one to the left of the blue dumpster.  My memory also says that this location was something of a poor stepchild in the <i>Robo's<\/i> family -- I recall it as being smaller, less busy, and having a smaller variety of games.  Unlike the University location, it didn't have a clear constituency (ie: college kids), though I suppose there are plenty of residences in the general area.  I'm not sure if it outlasted the Main Street or Dutch Square locations -- it <i>did<\/i> have the advantage of not having its building torn down, but I think Main Street had folded long before that happened to its former home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote at some length about Robo's on Main Street some time ago, and that's the location I overwhelmingly went to to hone my Galaga skills (and by hone, I mean, I was \"ok\"). That made sense as I lived across the street from there, but when I was home and had access to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25,13,111,15,141,128,5,97,437],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-arcade","tag-business","tag-devine-street","tag-entertainment","tag-fort-jackson-boulevard","tag-garners-ferry-road","tag-historic","tag-video-games","tag-wildcat-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}