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Mark Ritchie (born August 20, 1958) is an American pinball designer and video game producer. He is best known for his successful pinball designs from 1982-1996. He has continued to work in the coin-operated amusement industry, currently serving as production coordinator for Raw Thrills, Inc. / Play Mechanix, Inc. Mark is the younger brother of fellow pinball designer Steve Ritchie.
Among the company's first video arcade games in 1984 was a video poker machine available in floor-cabinet, swivel-mounted table and countertop table chassis. [10] Greyhound advertised the machine as an amusement game—no cash or prize redemption for winning—and emblazoned the machine with an "amusement only" sticker. [11]
GiGO, a former large 6 floor Sega game center on Chuo Dori, in front of the LAOX Aso-Bit-City in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. An amusement arcade, also known as a video arcade, amusements, arcade, or penny arcade (an older term), is a venue where people play arcade games, including arcade video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw cranes ...
Sega Worlds are most typically standard amusement arcades featuring Sega's own coin-operated arcade machines, alongside others. Though frequently housed in purpose-built suburban buildings, they have also been developed in other settings, including shopping centers, bowling alleys, department stores, and theme parks.
The International Mutoscope Reel Company was an American amusement arcade company. They were formed in the early 1920s, to produce Mutoscope machines and the motion picture reels that the machines played. They continued to manufacture arcade machines, including the claw machine as well as electro-mechanical games, until 1949.
The Windy II updated the original Windy with a colour scheme change (blue), a tri-sync monitor, and with a change of I/O to the new JAMMA Video Standard (JVS). Dimensions and weight remain the same, but unfortunately the design also maintained the easily breakable neck of the original cabinet.
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Novelty Automation. Novelty Automation is an amusement arcade of satirical game machines in Holborn, London. [1] The machines are constructed by cartoonist and engineer Tim Hunkin, [2] often by hand, [3] and the arcade includes an expressive photo booth, an interactive divorce and a "small hadron collider". [1]