Hysteria
Def Leppard
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, with the fuller archive in its own room.
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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
A green command line for the old-screen version of the site's personal signal.
Open terminalListening
A few albums still humming through the walls.
Old favorites, newer discoveries, and records that kept leaving a signal behind.
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Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails
Escape
Journey
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Chappell Roan
Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
Angelo Badalamenti
Screening
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.
Reading
A few books still rustling in the stacks.
Novels, philosophy, psychology, old reference books, and peculiar manuals that left a mark.
Cats
Cat rooms, no endless hallway.
Two cat galleries: one present-tense room for Beverly and Lucinda, and one memory room for Thomas, Jones, Missy, and Cass.
About
About ArcadeGhosts.
I'm Jason, a software engineer who builds systems, experiments, and small digital spaces outside of work. ArcadeGhosts is where those ideas become playable, readable, or occasionally strange.
I live in North Carolina with my cats, Beverly and Lucinda.