Jason Pollard / ArcadeGhosts
A personal signal from the neon woods.
ArcadeGhosts is my personal corner of the internet: writing, cats, old arcade ghosts, and pieces of whatever I'm trying to understand.
It's a place for things I make, things I love, and the strange connections between them.
Writing
Essays from the booth by the window.
Notes on technology, identity, attention, grief, comedy, and the suspiciously heroic act of trying again tomorrow.
Tiny Thoughts
Short signals from the counter.
Quick observations, lessons learned, funny experiences, opinions, and small notes that do not need to become full essays. Fresh counter signals land here first, but the fuller archive lives in its own room now.
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Fun and Games
Games, rooms, and playable static.
The playful side of the site: arcade glow, Twin Peaks-shaped detours, and one green terminal room with its own old-screen pulse.
Arcade Games
Arcade games
Favorite cabinets, quarter-light nostalgia, and the old machines that still hum behind the rest of the site.
Open arcade roomTwin Peaks GameTwin Peaks game #1
A Twin Peaks-inspired self-guided journey for naming the room you are in and leaving with one usable next step.
Enter the lodgesTwin Peaks GameTwin Peaks game #2
A browser text adventure about coffee, woods, clues, dreams, recurring witnesses, and alternate endings.
Play the gameTerminalTerminal
The green command line has its own room now if you want the old-screen version of the site's personal signal.
Open terminalScreening
A few screen stories still glowing in the lobby.
Twin Peaks, Severance, horror, curious comedies, and the bits of emotional weather that kept hanging around long enough to earn their own shelf.
Cats
Cat rooms, no endless hallway.
The cat galleries have moved into their own rooms so the homepage can breathe again.
About
I'm Jason. I'm a professional software developer and I made this site for fun. Feel free to explore and provide feedback.
I live in the Triad area of North Carolina. I have two cats, Beverly and Lucinda; you can see their pictures here. Have a great day!