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2. Gremlin Industries - Wikipedia

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   An arcade game of Star Trek made by Sega Electronics. Gremlin was founded in 1970 as a contract engineering firm by Harry Frank Fogleman and Carl E. Grindle. [1] The company was intended to be named "Grindleman Industries" as a portmanteau of their last names, but an employee of the Delaware Secretary of State's office misheard the name over the phone, so the company was incorporated as ...

3. Electro-mechanical game - Wikipedia

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   Coin-operated arcade amusements based on games of skill emerged around the turn of the 20th century, such as fortune telling, strength tester machines and mutoscopes. Normally installed at carnivals and fairs, entrepreneurs created standalone arcades to house these machines [ 6 ] [ 7 ] More interactive mechanical games emerged around the 1930s ...

4. Jennings & Company - Wikipedia

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   Jennings & Company was a leading manufacturer of slot machines in the United States and also manufactured other coin-operated machines, including pinball machines, from 1906 to the 1980s. It was founded by Ode D. Jennings as Industry Novelty Company, Incorporated of Chicago. On the death of its founder in 1953, the company was succeeded by ...

5. Arcade cabinet - Wikipedia

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   An arcade cabinet, also known as an arcade machine or a coin-op cabinet or coin-op machine, is the housing within which an arcade game's electronic hardware resides. Most cabinets designed since the mid-1980s conform to the Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers Association (JAMMA) wiring standard. [ 1 ]

6. Arcade game - Wikipedia

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   An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are presented as primarily games of skill and include arcade video games , pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games or merchandisers .

7. Mills Novelty Company - Wikipedia

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   The Mills Novelty Company, Incorporated of Chicago was once a leading manufacturer of coin-operated machines, including slot machines, vending machines, and jukeboxes, in the United States. Between about 1905 and 1930, the company's products included the Mills Violano-Virtuoso and its predecessors, celebrated machines that automatically played ...

8. Fortune teller machine - Wikipedia

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   The machine's lifelike movements when granting fortunes make the process appear to be alive. Genco Gypsy Grandma Fortune Teller - Genco Mfg., New York. NY c. 1940s-1950s – The central attraction of the original boardwalk and arcades was the "Gypsy Grandma" that comes to life after depositing a coin into a slot.

9. Stern (game company) - Wikipedia

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   The first two games made by Stern were Stampede and Rawhide, both originally made by Chicago Coin, which only had changes made to their branding and logos. After a weak start, Stern Electronics' sales started picking up by the end of 1977. [citation needed] They produced the first solid-state pinball machine, called Pinball that year. [2]