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!
I’ll allow it
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.
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.
Sweet. I remember using these tokens ages ago, should of kept a few, but instead I fed them all to games 🕹️
That’s so cool! I would frame it or something.
