Arcade game

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurant, pub, video arcade, and Family Entertainment Centers. Most arcade games are redemption game, merchandisers, video game or pinball machines. The first popular "arcade games" were early amusement park midway games such as Shooting galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated machines, such as those which claim to tell a person their fortune or played mechanical music. The old midways of 1920s-era amusement park (such as Coney Island in New York) provided the inspiration and atmosphere of later arcade games. In the 1930s, the earliest coin-operated pinball machines were made. These early amusement devices were distinct from their later electronic cousins in that they were made of wood, did not have plungers or lit-up bonus surfaces on the playing field, and used mechanical instead of electronic scoring readouts. By around 1977, most pinball machines in production... full article at wikipedia