Throwback activities for families on Long Island for nostalgic fun

Long Island goes retro at various venues, offering throwback thrills. Pick your decade for a blast from the past playing pinball and arcade video games, roller skating, watching a classic movie or reading up on superheroes at a comic book shop.

Where to play arcade games and pinball

In the time before game consoles and VR headsets, baby boomers and Gen Xers spent Saturdays battling aliens and gobbling up Pac-Dots in mall game rooms.

Decades hence, modern game rooms such as Game On Retro Arcade , in Lake Grove (362 Smith Haven Mall) and Calverton (200 Tanger Mall Dr.), transform those childhood memories into an intergenerational bonding experience.

"Parents want to share what they had with their kids," Game On Retro Arcade owner Tristan Whitworth says of the moms and dads playing Pac-