Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

special when lit · Post by **special when lit** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:52 pm

No sound, but interesting.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=73218

AMUSEMENT ARCADE

pennymachines · Post by **pennymachines** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:59 pm

Nice find. Thanks for posting. Many classic games here. Those two fleeting shots of the Basketball (with balls blowing from the middle similar to the Bingo machine earlier in the clip) are the first I've seen of the game since playing it as a kid. Also answers my question about the manufacturer - another fun game from Shields of Bridlington. It has something in common with the 1930s Ahrens Bubbles.

slotalot · Post by **slotalot** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:45 am

Marvin’s Marvellous Mechanical Museum

badpenny · Post by **badpenny** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:52 am

A generous cocktail of video monitors and electrickery shaken up with oodles of computer controlled chips

.............. but then again what isn't these days?
If this place was on my doorstep I'd go in for the atmosphere but it wouldn't slacken my purse strings any.
Hasn't Burt Reynolds got an amazingly tiny yet tinny sounding wanger?

coin-op · Post by **coin-op** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:13 pm

Old Penny Arcade at Swanage Pier, 2009

D Hooper's Old Penny Arcade at the Dorset Steam Fair, 2009

J Morley's Old Penny Arcade at the Dorset Steam Fair, 2009

slotalot · Post by **slotalot** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:26 pm

The Joe Welch American Antique Museum
An interview with Joe Welch himself... watch it to the end and see if you can keep count of the vintage slot machine in his collection....

loramarsden · Post by **loramarsden** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:13 pm

what a fascinating story, and what an AMAZING collection!

when are we all going on a visit?

coin-op · Post by **coin-op** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:33 pm

operator bell · Post by **operator bell** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:21 pm

loramarsden wrote: what a fascinating story, and what an AMAZING collection!

when are we all going on a visit?

Wow - what a collection! It must be worth upward of $30 million. More upright wheel machines in one room than I've seen in many years of auction sales. If you want to see it, better make it soon, or the next chance you'll get is when it's broken up and sold at auction - it's worth far too much for the local community to buy it and keep it open unless he wills it to them. The Liberty Bell alone is worth seven figures. The only other one I know of is in the Fey collection at Carson City Museum.

slotalot · Post by **slotalot** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:39 pm

A Walk Down Memory Lane

FORUM

Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

'60s arcade.

AMUSEMENT ARCADE

Re: '60s arcade.

An Afternoon at Marvin's

Re: An Afternoon at Marvin's

Arcade at the Dorset steam fair 2009

Re: Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

Re: Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

Pinball parlour, Margate

Re: Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

Re: Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

Who is online