Wandering around Chinatown after work today, I came across a familiar intersection: Pell and the Bowery. I thought it had long been replaced by another bubble tea joint, but there it is... an arcade. In this day and age, home video game systems are better than what arcades offer, but on this July evening, the place was packed.
Unfortunately, while Cruisin' USA was still there, my favorite part of the place was missing: the tic-tac-to playing chicken. In the back of this scuzzy establishment was an even scuzzier little plexiglass box, where a live chicken sat in front of a tic-tac-toe board. For a nominal fee, one could play against the chicken, who could always bring the game at least to a tie. A quick google search gives confirmation that such a thing existed, but that nobody knows what happened to it.
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