Photos: Scenes from an '80s arcade

Chasing Ghosts was inspired by this 1982 Life magazine photo of teenagers who were recognized as video game world champions. The photo was set in Ottumwa, Iowa, where Walter Day, the self-proclaimed keeper of high arcade game scores, had launched his Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard. (The scoreboard was later relaunched on the Web, long after the arcade doors were shut.)

Photo by Enrico Ferorelli