Cool Arcade Pictures!

I love signs. You must be 16 to play the bingo tables. No prizes of any kinds.

Yet a couple of them have big door bell type buttons on the front to run down credits.

Hmmmmmmmm. Bet somebody was making cash payouts, signs or not.

LTG :)
 
I was going to say the same thing. Those bingo/6 card machines are NOT for gambling...
 
All of the negative image on Bingo machines is kinda funny because I own one (Carnival Queen, first one with the "magic screen"), and surprisingly there isn't a knockoff switch on it.

I just wish we could get some nice pricing like that these days for food.
 
knock off was on there somewhere, that is all they were built for, payoff gaming. it was helpful for the industry, as are gray area poker/8 liners nowdays.

All of the negative image on Bingo machines is kinda funny because I own one (Carnival Queen, first one with the "magic screen"), and surprisingly there isn't a knockoff switch on it.

I just wish we could get some nice pricing like that these days for food.
 
Ahhh, the gold old days. Now the only way you'd ever see anything like that is in someone's basement or home arcade. (PHOF or Funspot not included they are too big to compete with this one)
 
Nice post, thanks.

Anyone have ideas on a year?
The look of the pins, the other machines and
the general pricing got me thinking 1958-1962 approx.
Any earlier than that wouldn't make sense as color
film would have been hard to come by and very expensive.
 
Nice post, thanks.

Anyone have ideas on a year?

From the link: "Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, MO - 1968".

I looked it up; this arcade appears to have stuck around until about 1982. And it did eventually see a lot of video games - but then the building was sold.
 
I love the "PLEASE do not abuse the machines" sign -- I guess they had problems even then with people getting pissed off when they screw up. I remember back in the early 80's this one kid who hung out in my local arcade really having anger issues -- the kid would yell at the machines saying things like "if I die again the joystick is going home with ME!" and he'd wrench the the joystick like he was going to rip it right out of the cabinet. This is one kid who took his game playing way too seriously. I once saw the cockpit MACH 3 they had with just some wires sticking out where the joystick used to be. It was obvious someone had ripped out the joystick in a fit on anger. I suspect it was the same kid. This is the type of kid you didn't want in your arcade if you were an arcade owner.
 
Looks like I cool place. Too bad I never got to see it. :(

Scott C.
 
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