I’ve got infonesia on where this came from, but here are three cool Flickr photo sets concerned with retro arcades, early handheld games and arcade game tokens. Glancing through the tokens, I didn’t see any from Chuck E. Cheese or Johnny Zee’s in Victoria, two arcades from my youth. From the retro arcade set, I want to know what the heck happened in this tiny, fenced arena.
Those are awesome and really brings me back to being a little girl growing up in KY. I used to take my bike up to the “main” road - I wasn’t allowed on it because it was too dangerous - but I was determined to go to the gas station and play asteroids… Remember when they had the video arcades IN gas stations? GAWD that seemed to long ago.
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Petromyzon Hey there, found you through technorati and thought I’d add this… The arcade photo’s were saved from the trash where I use to work (Namco) just under ten years ago. They trashed alot of boxes when they aquired the Time-Out chains and these were among the items I took before they hit the landfill. I always wanted them out in the public domain and flickr has given me that chance. Most were taken from projected slides.
The handhelds are my collection and so are the tokens. No worries, Chuck E. Cheeze are coming. What’s nice is they dated their tokens, I have a complete set from 1981 through 1992. I’ll keep an eye out for Johnny Z’s, I have so many more to go through. I’ve probably posted ten percent of my entire collection.
Thanks for the post.
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OK, infonesia is my new favourite word of the week :-)
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