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!

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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?

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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.

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Oh wow! That’s news to me, how cool! :) I love little souvenirs like that, we had nothing like that in the UK :)

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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.

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I know the arcade had a lot of Namco machines. I wasn’t really paying that close attention though, I was only 10 in 1991 lol. I know I spent a ton of these tokens on The Simpsons arcade game and later on the big X-Men game and I’m pretty sure they were both Konami

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