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“You don’t make money putting them out where people can play them, seven days a week, 12 hours a day. “It’s sad but true, the only money to be made in classic games is selling them on eBay,” notes Vincent. “It’s really funny to see dad who is about 40 with his 15-year-old kid, saying look, come here, I played this when I was a kid.”Īlthough Funspot donates the space to the nonprofit museum, the games in the museum don’t make enough money to support themselves. The fact that 60 video game enthusiasts showed up for the first classic arcade tournament in 1999 convinced him of the need to collect and preserve games and put them out where the public could learn about them and enjoy them again. “Having worked at Funspot since 1981, and having watched the industry go way, way, way up and way, way, way down, I saw an opportunity to save a lot of the older games here by starting a museum,” Vincent says of the nonprofit which was founded in 2002. “It actually has a television set in it that has been modified to run with video game hardware, which is typical of video games until about 1974,” Vincent explains.

#PINBALL WIZARD NH MOD#

Developed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who would go on to found Atari, th mod looking machine has a fiberglass cabinet with sparkle gel coat. He notes that when Double Dragon came out, there was a shift in the industry from quirky puzzle-and-fantasy-based games to what he calls “the kick punch shoot games.”Īmong the rare video games you can play are Computer Space (1971), the world’s first commercially available coin-operated video game. “We use 1987 as a cutoff date for video games in the museum,” says Vincent. Four tokens cost $1.00 we splurged on 100 for $20. Hercules is stationed at the entrance to the American Classic Arcade Museum (ACAM), which museum curator Gary Vincent describes as “like stepping into the Wayback Machine.” ACAM has over 200 classic video games as well as a selection of pinball machines, any of which can be played for a few tokens. Hercules, ‘Largest Pinball in the World,’ at Funspot.

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