I hope this counts, if not I can remove it. This is a game token from an arcade that used to exist at my local mall when I was a kid! It was my favorite place in the mall!

  • billwashere@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    God I miss that feeling of going into an arcade when I was like 15 years old. Just that feeling of wonderment and escape. No cares, no responsibilities, nothing hurt 🙃, the excitement of getting to level you hadn’t seen, all of it.

    Granted this was like 40 years ago and the games are a lot better now and I’m playing on a giant TV in my own bonus room but I truly miss those times. Especially the not hurting part 😂

    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      The first thing I thought when I found that token was “everything used to be so much easier” lol

      I’m afraid it’s just another unfortunate consequence of becoming middle aged 😰

  • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That’s fricking cool! :) I love seeing these types of things, I was born a little too late on the other side of the world, so I had no idea these existed! :) Was it a namco-only thing?

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      Namco had a chain of arcades in the US, which was pretty wide spread, so I guess it made sense to mint their own coins. Chuck-e-Cheese, another chain of arcades (and other younger-kid oriented attractions), had their own coins too. I think most one-off mom and pop places had a generic coin or directly accepted quarters, but there were probably a few other regional chains which had their own coins.

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        1 year ago

        I worked for the Aladdin’s Castle arcade chain, which was also owned by Namco. But they didn’t make that obvious in any way.

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      I know the arcade had a lot of Namco machines. I wasn’t really paying that close attention though, I was only 10 in 1991 lol. I know I spent a ton of these tokens on The Simpsons arcade game and later on the big X-Men game and I’m pretty sure they were both Konami

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    1 year ago

    I have an old arcade token from a little pizza place my grandparents used to take us to when I was a kid. The pizza place is long gone but I’ll always remember pizza and pinball.