Arcade Video Games For Sale Houston
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Golden Age of Video Arcade Games $78.07 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The golden age of video arcade games was a peak era of video arcade game popularity, innovation, and earnings. The consensus as to its exact time period varies. Walter Day of Twin Galaxies places it as lasting from January 18, 1982 to January 5, 1986. Video game journalist Steven L. Kent, in his book The Ultimate History of Video Games, places it from 1979 to 1983. Other opinions place this periods beginning in the late 1970s, when color arcade games became more prevalent and video arcades themselves started appearing outside of their traditional bowling alley and bar locales, through to its ending in the mid1980s. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Publication Date: 2010/07/06 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.26 inches |
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Antique Arcade Games: Mike Munves 19391962 $25.96 Mike Munves was a major distributor of electromechanical arcade games from the 1930s into the 1970s. His catalogs are now considered reference works for this unique part of Americana. This book contains electromechanical games that were enjoyed the world over long before video games existed. These are games you will never have the opportunity to see in person because they are so rare and some have disappeared completely. Includes: 1939 Catalog, 1951 Supplement, 1952 Supplement, 1953 Catalog, 1954 Price Revisions, 1954 Supplement, 1956 Catalog, 1958 Catalog, 1961 Supplement, 1962 Supplement This book also includes a full reprint of the Mike Munves minibook Profits In Pennies 1942. This book was distributed to dealers and it explained how to run a profitable arcade business. This is an amazing look back into an almost forgotten era of arcade games. These electromechanical wonders filled arcades and thrilled children and adults until they were eclipsed by the invasion of video games, but they have not lost their charm one bit. Author: Ford, Michael Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 130 Publication Date: 2008/12/01 Language: English Dimensions: 8.25 x 11.00 x 0.28 inches |
