LOS ANGELES TIMES, Jan. 27, 1982 

* Golden age of video arcade game machines 
* Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Centipede & more 

The front page of section V has a banner heading: "The Games People Play and Play and Play and Play..." with subhead and two related photos, one showing youths playing 'Donkey Kong'. (see images) 
Complete with all major sections (70+ pages), very nice condition.

Background: This specific feature by Dave Larsen is a rare, high-value historical artifact from the absolute zenith of the arcade phenomenon, published mere months before the catastrophic video game crash of 1983 began to take shape. Beyond merely covering the craze, the article offers an unusually detailed time-capsule look at Southern California's early gaming culture—capturing hyper-local suburban arcades, operator revenue stats, and community anxieties over quarter-draining machine addiction that rarely received such serious journalistic treatment in mainstream news media. Because early 1980s local broadsheet features are notoriously difficult to access outside of specialized microfiche collections or paid newspaper archives, the piece—and particularly its raw, non-syndicated photojournalism showing retro cabinets like Pac-Man and Asteroids in their original, unvarnished retail environments—serves as an exceptionally scarce piece of media history documenting the golden age of coin-op entertainment right at its absolute high-water mark.