Arcade Games for Everyone


by Robert - Date: 2008-09-14 - Word Count: 250 Share This!

Playing arcade games is very popular not only with children but also for adults. Especially now that there are many arcade games available on the internet, men and women of all ages have more access to unlimited fun and entertainment right in their own homes.

In the past, arcade games were only available in restaurants, video arcades, pubs and entertainment centers. These are entertainment machines that are coin-operated. Merchandisers, pinball machines, video games and redemption games are the most played arcade games.

Midway games like ball toss games and shooting galleries as well as the coin-operated machines are the earliest popular arcade games. The amusement parks in New York and Coney Island in the 1920s were the ones that inspired the modern day arcade games. The first coin-operated game equipments were the pinball machines made in the 1930s. These machines were known for the woodworks and did not lit-up bonus surfaces and plungers. They also used scoring readouts that are mechanical, instead of electronic. Pinball machines, however changed their production from mechanical to electronics in scoring and operation in the year 1977.

Nowadays, there are many arcade games available online and people do not need to go to entertainment arcades anymore. You can choose from thousands of online games from the famous Super Mario Brothers to Blackjack. One of the many websites that offer unlimited online games is the ArcadeCraft (http://arcadecraft.com). Besides arcade games, ArcadeCraft also provide sports, action, puzzle, card, casino, shooting, racing, RPG, memory games and a lot more.


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