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Urban Tool in Recruiting by the Army: An Arcade

About 35 visitors have enlisted. (Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times)

PHILADELPHIA - Amid the last-minute shopping bustle, the voice in the Black Hawk helicopter simulator shouted with an urgency that exceeded even the holiday mall frenzy.

"Enemy right! Enemy right!"

Triggers squeezed. Pixels exploded. Shopping waited.

At the Franklin Mills mall here, past the Gap Outlet and the China Buddha Express, is a $13 million video arcade that the Army hopes will become a model for recruitment in urban areas, where the armed services typically have a hard time attracting recruits.