There were three versions of the original coin-operated game.

Today, Central Pier looks merely forlorn, its center arcade lined with coin-operated game and chance machines.

During WWII all of the major manufacturers of coin-operated games were diverted to manufacturing equipment for the war effort.

Mr. Fox's family used to own penny arcades here and now sells coin-operated games.

The video-lounge concept is an update of the faded wave of video arcades, which offered an earlier generation of coin-operated games that were played standing up.

In front of the Fratelli Ristorante the other day, 30 Asians flocked around five coin-operated games of chance.

About 30 guests rode along in other cars, while a smaller number watched from below as tootling music floated from a coin-operated game nearby.

Delta Village housed one of the first coin-operated games in which visitors could pit their quick-draw skills against the fastest cowboy gunman robot in the west.

This company eventually became Rosen Enterprises, and in 1957 began importing coin-operated games to Japan.

Many old video game arcades have long since closed, and classic coin-operated games have become largely the province of dedicated hobbyists.