"There was nothing like that finger pinch," Beeler said, recalling the pain any player will remember from Atari arcade football - the leather helmet, single-wing era equivalent to today's vastly more sophisticated Madden NFL video games. Visitors can spend a few minutes at the flippers of a late-1970s Ted Nugent pinball machine, then zap some aliens from the Galaga spaceship.įriends can challenge each other to a game of circa-1979 Atari arcade football, with its eye-straining green graphics of X's and O's representing the opposing teams, maneuvered by rolling a big metallic ball built into the console. In both cases, another $20 provides upgrades to an all-day pass. art you can play," said the museum's vice president and fellow gaming buff Chris Akin.įor $19.99, museum visitors get two hours of play time - no coins or tokens necessary. "You're reliving your youth," the museum's curator Ed Beeler, said, surrounded by his 413 old-school arcade games rescued from warehouses, including such pioneering time-occupiers as Space Invaders, Centipede, Asteroids, Frogger, Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. On May 30, the general public gets its first look and feel of the hands-on Pennsylvania Coin Operated Gaming Hall of Fame and Museum. ![]() Hundreds of vintage arcade video games, stacked side-by-side like casino slot machines, beckoning to be played again.Īdd some old pinball machines dating to the 1950s, and shoot-'em-up rifle arcade games waiting to be aimed and fired, and you've got a fantasy land for grown-up schoolboys and schoolgirls in the Hopewell Shopping Center. It's joystick nirvana as far as the eye can see.
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