VIDEO GAMES
ABANDONED/DECLINING CITIES
JOSH ALLEN
100

This popular video game was released in 1987, be careful if you upset the lead of the game, he may punch you or bite your ear.

Mike Tysons Punch Out

100

Perhaps the most famous abandoned city, a nuclear accident during a safety test forced evacuation of the nearby town, but it didnt happen for 36 hours after the accident. 

Pripyat, Ukraine

100
Josh attended this college, they are the Cowboys.

University of Wyoming. 

200

The first game, now there are 24 total games, and 4 movies, was released in 1992.  

Mortal Kombat

200

A thriving town with a large mining community that began to decline in the 1960s after a large underground mine fire ignited. Which still burns today and is only 1 hour away from our PA office.

Centralia, PA

200

This athlete was Joshs childhood hero. 

Tiger Woods

300

Released in 1982, this Steve Perry band were named on their first of two video games for the Atari System.

Journey

300

Once a thriving steel town and home of the Jackson 5, this town now has 13000 abandoned buildings including 25 abandoned schools.

Gary, Indiana

300

This legendary football team is Joshs favorite.

San Francisco 49ers

400

On June 6, 1984 this classic game was released.  The song from it still gets stuck in my head.

Tetris

400

Located on Egmont Key near St. Petersburg, Florida, this town was built on the heels of the Spanish-American War in 1858. At its peak, it included 300 residents with about 70 buildings, it was deactivated in 1923.

Fort Dade

400

Josh is a HUGE fan of this musician, and when I first heard it was like Baby, Baby, NOOOOOO

Justin Bieber, Josh is a Belieber and not afraid for people to know it. 

500

This classic computer game was first released in 1974 as an educational game.   Be careful while playing you get dysentery.  And if you do, you gonna get left behind. 

The Oregon Trail

500

This neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York is infamous as the location of a landfill that became the site of an environmental disaster discovered in 1977. Decades of dumping toxic chemicals killed residents and harmed the health of hundreds. It took over 20 years to clean up. 

Love Canal.  

Where I went on one of my first dates. 

500

Josh is engaged to this Oscar nominated HOT actress?

Hailee Steinfeld