Games Gone By

In the age of iPods, Wiis and plasma televisions, Patrick O'Malley still knows a classic electronic when he sees it. O'Malley, owner of Star Worlds Arcade in DeKalb, has been an arcade video game collector for more than two decades and has shared his enthusiasm for the game with DeKalb for three years at his Lincoln Highway location. As a boy, O'Malley loved video games so much that he talked his parents into allowing him to own several arcade games and keep them at their home. As the collection grew, his parents' patience thinned. “They wanted all my friends out of their house, so I decided to open a business,” O'Malley said. With arcade games dating as far back as 1977 and stretching in price to $5,500, O'Malley not only has a shop fille