Atari legend Eugene Jarvis celebrates 25 years running arcade machine company Raw Thrills in Chicago

Jarvis smiling, surrounded by vintage arcade game posters.

By Conner Dejecacion Medill Reports Eugene Jarvis, 71, has worked on video games since their inception. He grew up in Menlo Park, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley. As a “young, rebellious” person living in the shadow of the Vietnam War, he played chess, invented war games out of bottle caps and explored the Bay Area on his bike. When he played Spacewar!, an early video game released […]