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Pretty auction photos.
#390378 - 03/20/21 04:07 AM
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Re: Pretty auction photos.
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#390381 - 03/20/21 06:39 AM
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Great read, thanks for sharing. I was surprised to see that 3 of the machines from the late 60s and 70s were setup for 50 cents. It was not until Dragons Lair do I remember more than 25 cents.
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Re: Pretty auction photos.
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#390382 - 03/20/21 12:59 PM
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> I was surprised to see that 3 of the machines from the late 60s and 70s were setup for
> 50 cents.
The first coinop item I vaguely recall requiring two quarters may have been a couple of the automated player piano systems that were installed at some shopping center or maybe at a Farrells ice cream parlor (Farells were popular in 60s and 70s and they had a brief revival attempt back in the post 2000AD era).
>It was not until Dragons Lair do I remember more than 25 cents.
My first memorable encounter with credit requiring more than a quarter was in late Spring 1975 at Straw Hat pizza when seeing a WG cab for the first time ever. I watched others play the game first and was in awe of watching the game as a ten year old. I did not have to question whether game was worth two quarters because it was worth it back then in 1975.
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I don't recall if Atari Star Wars cabs required more than a quarter when they first appeared at places in 1983, but remembering the long standing lines to play the game back then, I wouldn't be surprised if the credit required was more than a quarter at the time.
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#390383 - 03/20/21 01:08 PM
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https://issuu.com/morphyauctions/docs/flipdoc_apr_13-14_coin-op/76
>Old? Outdated? But of course...
With a couple of the items being auctioned, there were probably some of those also at Disneyland's Main Street Penny arcade back in the 1970s, but I only paid attention to the rifle gun games or a couple of the EM games in the Penny arcade room. Before Disneyland had Space Mountain and StarCade arcade built in 1977, iirc a couple of the pong clone video coinop games were in Penny arcade since Disneyland didn't have a full scale size arcade section other than Penny arcade and the mini arcade outside of exit area of Pirates of the Caribbean ride where all of the games were gun-rifle style mechanical games.
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#390385 - 03/20/21 10:49 PM
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