Payphone in the arcade!

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Set for free calls, the Protel 7000 payphone is now up and running in Screen Play! You can even sit in the theater seat and talk. Better than the Star Wars chair! Check it out.
 

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Very nice!

As a kid, I always used to think that the instruction box (upper left) was backlit. It used to be white and almost looked like opaque plastic, then it turned blue, then finally red like yours. At least, where I lived.
 
love it, and the topper/sign above.

What's with the PCB installed on the wall?
 
Cool! I've got a payphone in my game room as well, with the phone sign above it, running magic jack. Great minds...
 
Thats cool how did you set it up?:cool:

I'm guessing he just plugged it in. At least on the old payphones you could play files off a tape recorder of the sounds coins made to make free calls. I think the check for coins was on the other end.
 
I have an indoor wooden phone booth with a single slot rotary payphone in it. It's funny watching my kids try to dial. It's in my dining room because my basement ceiling is too low. Payphones are an arcade must in my opinion.
 
I had looked into getting a pay phone this summer but it never quite came together. I was looking for something AT&T, MCI, or GTE from the 90s. Could have had one and shipped it for around $150 but I decided I wanted a mini fridge for pop.
 
Just pay attention to which type of phone you buy. Most newer payphones have a card inside that handles all the money, and you will have to have it programmed and won't be as easy as just plugging in a phone line.

I had looked into getting a pay phone this summer but it never quite came together. I was looking for something AT&T, MCI, or GTE from the 90s. Could have had one and shipped it for around $150 but I decided I wanted a mini fridge for pop.
 
It's Time Soldiers. I don't have rotating joysticks, but it was one of my favorite games growing up.

I got a NOS set right here:

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That "no persons under 17" sign is cool. Who did you have make it? looks too nice to be an 80's original.
 
It is an authentic 80s sign. It came from the arcade I work at, formally a Time-Out. It was in storage for years and I had my eye on it shortly after I started working there. I waited two years before I asked the DM if I could have it, because I thought that the longer I had been there, the better my odds. As it turned out, he didn't even care.

There was originally a sign over it that said no loitering, horseplay or gambling; it hung from that other sign.

That "no persons under 17" sign is cool. Who did you have make it? looks too nice to be an 80's original.
 
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