Gone are the days of swearing, wayward teens: today we’ve got sanitised games of chance with tickets for tat for prizes
Amusement arcades now are colourful introductions to gambling. Photo: Picture posed/Getty
In the closing scenes of Martin Scorsese’s 1995 crime epic Casino, Robert de Niro’s character laments the decline of the old order in Las Vegas.
Despite having survived attempts on his life and seeing his friends beaten to death by gangsters, he seems almost sorrowful when he talks about the new mob-free Vegas.