Any games existing on Mega Touch machines (or other similar machines) that are usually placed on counter tops in neighborhood bars. Esp. the Penthouse Photo Hunt game. The "crack" reference indicates the addictive nature of these games and the unmitigated pumping of dollars into Mega Touch machines.
I played video crack all night Saturday, got the high score on nuddie photo hunt, and spent over $70. Toats worth it, though.
videocracy n. (from Latin video, I see + Latin cratia, from Greekkratos, power, rule; cf. ideocracy) Ð the power of visual images in shaping contemporary societies; the crucial impact of television, cinema, internet, and advertising on public opinion, political affairs, market strategies, etc.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)