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billwashere ,

God I miss that feeling of going into an arcade when I was like 15 years old. Just that feeling of wonderment and escape. No cares, no responsibilities, nothing hurt 🙃, the excitement of getting to level you hadn’t seen, all of it.

Granted this was like 40 years ago and the games are a lot better now and I’m playing on a giant TV in my own bonus room but I truly miss those times. Especially the not hurting part 😂

MrJameGumb OP ,

The first thing I thought when I found that token was “everything used to be so much easier” lol

I’m afraid it’s just another unfortunate consequence of becoming middle aged 😰

The_Picard_Maneuver ,
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That’s so cool! I would frame it or something.

AnonymousLlama ,
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Sweet. I remember using these tokens ages ago, should of kept a few, but instead I fed them all to games 🕹️

Aviandelight ,
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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.

GoOnASteamTrain ,

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?

fireye ,

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.

GoOnASteamTrain ,

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

FlyingSquid ,
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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.

MrJameGumb OP ,

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

dhork ,

I’ll allow it

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