Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

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Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

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1960s style home amusement arcade with great variety - Bally Night Club bingo pinball, Royal Ascot, Sega Berkeley, Rouletto, Tip Top, Go and Stop, Wulff Bingolett: Direct Link

Penny Arcade at Merrivale Model Village, Great Yarmouth, 15/09/07 with a view of the vintage section.



Automatenkabinet museum at Weesp near Amsterdam.



Mechanical Memories Museum

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Automata, Ahrens Palmist, English Execution, Orchestrions, Modern Enterprises Cry Baby, Opium Den, etc. at Musee Mecanique, San Francisco.



More from the Musee Mechanique, San Francisco.



Mechanical Music and automata at the Mecanical Doll Museum, Chichester.

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Musee Mechanique introduction.



Various automata

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Gameroom - playing "In the Mood" on Wurlitzer, with "flapper dancers" on Mutoscope

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Jimmy's Back Room Vintage Penny Arcade



Hershey GameRoom Expo 2004



German Pinball Museum: Das Flippermuseum Schwerin

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Tim Hunkin introduces his Southwold Pier Arcade and looks at how cranes, pushers and bandits work.



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Is it Art?





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Wookey Hole Penny Arcade

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A tour of the Wookey Hole Vintage Penny Arcade.


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John Morley's Travelling Arcade taken at the Great Dorset Steam Fair on 27 August 2008

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Hey coin-op, that was brilliant.. What a great collection. Pity that no bugger was really playing them. A few fiddlers. Wouldn't it be brilliant to see the place shoulder to shoulder with punters!! Thanks for the video.
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Hi Rigg, glad you enjoyed it. I shot the footage at around 10.00 a.m. so I guess there were a decent number of customers present for that time of the day; the arcade had only more or less opened up. I actually tried hard to shoot the film so as to avoid having people in the way. Although it doesn't look like it, the 'route' I took was forced upon me due to people in the way playing the machines. I can tell you that if I had taken the film a little later in the day, you probably would have seen more of the backs of people playing the machines than the machines they were playing!
I would add that Mr Morley told me that he has built a new arcade to travel with, but it isn't quite ready. So I guess this arcade will shortly be retired. So, it's a bit of history that you are seeing in more ways than one.
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End of the line for 1970s St. Pete Beach, Tampa Bay, Florida amusement centre.



A walk through the modern arcade on Brighton Pier

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PennyMachines wrote:
A walk through a modern arcade
A walk through the modern arcade :D , Its the best thing you can do :!: Keep walking.... Give me the vintage machines any-day :adore: But thats just my opinion :tarah:
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Quite agree with you Slotalot, and there is a technical term for this, it's called getting old ! SkEpTiCaL

My Son in law loves these machines, trouble is a lot of us did not grow up in the high tech whize-bang age of electronics (although I now sit at a computer all day working) so we just don't have that affinity to such machines. With the old vintage machines at least you feel that you have a degree of involvement and control but with the modern electronic machine its as if you are just an on-looker. Give me the sound of falling pennies, steel ball on glass and the tick, clang, click of the mechanical machine any day.
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Arrgee wrote:.............with the modern electronic machine its as if you are just an on-looker.

Spot on!!
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Hi :D , I must warn you that you will need to wear a bib when watching this video :cool: it will help to stop you drooling down your shirt front :tarah:

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Stuart ........ there's just sheer filth in that video. I don't know about gamble responsibly more like collect responsibly!!!
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Pacific Pinball Expo

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Hi :D , If you are in to vintage Pinball machines you will love this :boing!:





Please Enjoy :tarah:
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Antique Amusements in Rosedale, LA. - jukeboxes, pinball machines, coke machines...

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A HOME GAMESROOM
Lots of pinballs & bowlers here

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