There was a time when the arcade was a wonderland of amusements, of sights and sounds designed to separate patrons from their coins in the name of pleasure or (in the case of gambling) possible profit. Mechanical devices of dizzying complexity were enjoyed by millions of Americans every week. In time these were replaced by electronic machines, with digital characters dancing across display screens; but the philosophy remained the same. Designers knew that their mission was to give people a few moments' amusement, with each new machine promising unique delights, and always for a price that could be counted with the change in one's pocket.

What this website aims to do is to catalog many of the more popular and pervasive machines of the past: video games, pinball, fortune tellers, crane games, strength testers - the variety is seemingly endless. These machines are fascinating pieces of a quickly-vanishing world which deserve to be remembered for the creativity for their design, but also because they occupy an important spot in our nation's popular culture.

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