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!
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 😂
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 😰
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?
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.
Oh wow! That’s news to me, how cool! :) I love little souvenirs like that, we had nothing like that in the UK :)
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.
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.
I’ll allow it
That’s so cool! I would frame it or something.
