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  2. Coin pusher - Wikipedia

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    Unique to this machine, a model train travels in a loop at the top of the machine, and when the player achieves a jackpot the model train dumps coins onto their playfield. A coin pusher is a type of arcade game with the objective of winning prizes in the form of coins or other items. Prizes are won when they are dislodged from a playfield ...

  3. Medal game - Wikipedia

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    When a coin is dropped in, it falls onto one of the platforms and has the chance of pushing other coins (and possibly prizes placed on top of the coins) off the edge and being awarded to the player, unless they fall in the left and right 'lose' side of the edge. Timing in dropping the coin is a skill factor in the game.

  4. Polybius (urban legend) - Wikipedia

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    An alleged start screen, attached to an article on coinop.org [1]. Polybius is a purported 1981 arcade game that features in an urban legend. [2] The legend describes the game as part of a government-run crowdsourced psychology experiment based in Portland, Oregon.

  5. List of Sega arcade games - Wikipedia

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    Initial D Arcade Stage 7 AA X, Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity: Racing Sega (AM1) RingEdge [140] Let's Go Island 3D: Let's Go Island: Lost on the Island of Topics, Let's Go Island: Dreams Edition: Light gun shooter Sega Sega Network Taisen Mahjong MJ5: Sega Network Taisen Mahjong MJ5R: Tabletop Sega (AM2) Sega Golden Gun: Light gun shooter

  6. Amusement arcade - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. 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 .

  8. The Wizard of Oz (arcade game) - Wikipedia

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    The Wizard of Oz is an arcade coin pusher game based on the 1939 film that awards token chips and cards that are redeemable for prizes. The player shoots coins into the machine which drops chips and cards. The player collects the cards and chips that can be redeemed later for prizes. The coins are retained by the machine.

  9. History of arcade video games - Wikipedia

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    By 1993, arcade games in the United States were generating an annual revenue of $7,000,000,000 (equivalent to $14,800,000,000 in 2023), larger than both the home video game market ($6 billion) as well as the film box office market ($5 billion). [53] Worldwide arcade video game revenue also maintained its lead over consoles. [1]