|
|
| Use our "Random Page"
button to randomly browse our cool website! |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment
machine, typically installed in businesses such
as restaurants, pubs, video arcades, and Family
Entertainment Centers. Most arcade games are redemption
games, merchandisers, video games or pinball machines.
The first popular "arcade games" were
early amusement park midway games such as Shooting
galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated
machines, such as those which claim to tell a person
their fortune or played mechanical music. The old
midways of 1920s-era amusement parks (such as Coney
Island in New York) provided the inspiration and
atmosphere of later arcade games.
In the 1930s, the earliest coin-operated pinball
machines were made. These early amusement devices
were distinct from their later electronic cousins
in that they were made of wood, did not have plungers
or lit-up bonus surfaces on the playing field, and
used mechanical instead of electronic scoring readouts.
By around 1977, most pinball machines in production
switched to using solid state electronics for both
operation and scoring... |
 |
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
