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[sku_u]

Can anyone point me to a good site that deals with old arcade amusements other than the KLOV archives? I'm talking about old arcade machines like the love tester, not pinball or videogames.

[Dr Galaga]

The International Arcade Museum link on KLOV has machines like you are describing, but they are not organized very well. Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum has some links on their repair page at http://www.marvin3m.com/fix.htm
If you are in the Detroit area you may want to stop at the place. It's kind of small, but has a lot of love testers, cranes, photo booths, and other video and pre-video things: http://www.marvin3m.com/

[donkeykong1]

Hey sku_u if you are ever in San Francisco, go to fisherman's wharf and they have an arcade museum there. They have all of those machines including the old movie projector styles. The cool thing is you can test them out and play them. i forgot the name of the place though but it was great. wish I had taken pictures of the inside. I have one of myself in front of the place at home. I'll post it later because I'm at work right now

[donkeykong1]

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[sebastius]

donkeykong1 said:

Hey sku_u if you are ever in San Francisco, go to fisherman's wharf and they have an arcade museum there. They have all of those machines including the old movie projector styles. The cool thing is you can test them out and play them. i forgot the name of the place though but it was great. wish I had taken pictures of the inside. I have one of myself in front of the place at home. I'll post it later because I'm at work right now

That's a GREAT place. But the games are in rather crappy shape. StarWars plays nice though.

It's on my wishlist for another vacation

[rpmxxipt]

Dr Galaga said:

If you are in the Detroit area you may want to stop at the place.  It's kind of small, but has a lot of love testers, cranes, photo booths, and other video and pre-video things:http://www.marvin3m.com/

Wow, thanks for posting that link! Before I broke away finally, I'd spent a half hour looking through all their stuff! It was really strange, but I'd completely forgotten all about those solid-state 70's games and how many of the shooters I'd PLAYED as a very little kid.

Now I feel old.

[tyranthraxus]

How long has that San Fran one been there? I seem to recall a vintage
arcade when my family was there in the mid 80s. But I believe it
advertised as a penny arcade. I recall not being very impressed with
those old games at the time

That other museum is pretty cool. If I ever own a bar I think I will have
to have a love machine and one of those fortune teller machines.

[sku_u]

Dr Galaga said:

The International Arcade Museum link on KLOV has machines like you are describing, but they are not organized very well.  Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum has some links on their repair page at http://www.marvin3m.com/fix.htm
If you are in the Detroit area you may want to stop at the place.  It's kind of small, but has a lot of love testers, cranes, photo booths, and other video and pre-video things:http://www.marvin3m.com/

That's a great site. Thanks for the link!

[donkeykong1]

tyranthraxus said:

How long has that San Fran one been there? I seem to recall a vintage
arcade when my family was there in the mid 80s. But I believe it
advertised as a penny arcade. I recall not being very impressed with
those old games at the time  

That other museum is pretty cool. If I ever own a bar I think I will have
to have a love machine and one of those fortune teller machines.

Don't know, and most of the machines really are not in great shape but fun to look at and play.

[maibock]

donkeykong1 said:

Hey sku_u if you are ever in San Francisco, go to fisherman's wharf and they have an arcade museum there. They have all of those machines including the old movie projector styles. The cool thing is you can test them out and play them. i forgot the name of the place though but it was great. wish I had taken pictures of the inside. I have one of myself in front of the place at home. I'll post it later because I'm at work right now

Oh yeah I remember that place. I was there in 1980 with my family. They had to drag me out of there

Must go back