SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 15 : KIDS OF ALL AGES AT THE ARCADE

Along with free room and board, diversions abound in the Olympic village to such a wondrous degree that many athletes don’t want to go home.

There are movies, a disco and a video arcade, where good guys from dozens of countries conquer villains in games such as After Burner and Rail Chase. The line is longest, though, for a life-sized whirling sphere called Flight Simulator.

“You’re concentrating so much on shooting down the enemy planes that you don’t realize you’re upside down,” said Tuomo Kanila, a wrestler from Finland.

* This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and Baltimore Sun, all Times-Mirror newspapers.