An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses, such as restaurants, bars, and particularly amusement arcades.

The first popular " arcade games " were early amusement park midway games such as shooting galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated machines, such as those that claim to tell a person their fortune or played mechanical music.

The old midways of 1920s-era amusement parks ( such as Coney Island in New York ) provided the inspiration and atmosphere of later arcade games.

Video games were introduced in amusement arcades in the late 1970s and were most popular during the golden age of arcade video games, the early 1980s.

Great Yarmouth's seafront, known as " The Golden Mile " attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year to its sandy beaches, Joyland, outdoor attractions and amusement arcade.

What remained of the pier extended just fifteen feet outwards from the amusement arcade and cafe that was built on the site of the original entrance.

St James was the home of Spaceplex, an notorious indoor amusement park and arcade.

In fact, when it was current in the early 20th century, it was used only to refer to a small five-cent theater and not to any coin-in-the-slot machine, including amusement arcade motion picture viewers such as the Kinetoscope and Mutoscope.

Although County Hall's old council chamber is still intact, the building is unavailable for use by the GLA due to its conversion into, among other things, a luxury hotel, amusement arcade and aquarium.

This proved to be a profitable attraction to visitors, resulting in the addition of a new building containing an amusement arcade, restaurant and bowling alley.

was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961, for the amusement of the developers ; it was, however, remade four times as an arcade game in the early to mid-1970s.

Later expanding into the amusement park business, Sennichimae Plabo was opened in Osaka, featuring a new concept of large-scale arcade amusement, and Namco Wonder Eggs, a theme park, was opened in Tokyo.

Each Skyline Pavilion contains a stage ( used mainly for daytime children's shows ), a cafe and associated seating, a bar ( known as Bar Rosso ), restaurants such as Burger King, an amusement arcade, an information counter ( termed " infunmation point "), and various shops selling novelties, souvenirs, and groceries.

Sandown Pier hosts a large amusement centre with arcade games and children's play areas, typical of a seaside resort.

An amusement arcade with snooker halls and food outlets occupy the southern end.

The pier, now disused except for a cafe and amusement arcade, stands before a leisure centre, with swimming pool, owned by the local council, now managed by a contractor.

Its past two summer seasons have been marred by rain, and in the 18 months leading up to the end of 2008, the resort had suffered the destruction by fire of three of its most popular attractions-The Dunes pub at Winthorpe, the Parade Complex which housed a nightclub, bar and amusement arcade, and most recently a seafront building housing two bars and a fish-and-chip shop.

On 16 August 2007 a fire at an entertainment and shopping complex on seafront destroyed a nightclub and an amusement arcade.

Today County Hall is the site of businesses and attractions, including the London Sea Life Aquarium, a permanent exhibition of works by the artist-in residence, Nasser Azam, and a Namco Station amusement arcade.

Abandoned amusement arcade on the seafront ( which has since been demolished )

Above Hope Beach is the esplanade which boasts some traditional seaside attractions including an amusement arcade, a crazy golf course, and a children's play area, with slides, ball pools, bouncy castles, rigging, swings etc.

A variant of the tracking shot is the onride video, where the camera films during a ride on a train, an amusement ride ( especially a roller coaster ) or another vehicle.

The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s, when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device.

Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin ' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television series, films, comics, music albums, video games and amusement park rides.

Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters ( including those in feature films, television programs, animated short films, and video games ) and radio and audio dramas and comedy, as well as doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.

Today it features a number of amusement rides, video arcades, and diverse cuisine, ranging from the traditional sausage sandwich to sushi.

Many video game and amusement centers now use debit card systems based on magnetic stripe cards.

Namco was re-established to continue domestic operation of video arcades and amusement parks.

For the first time in more than 35 years, the company is not involved in the video game or amusement industry.

Singer-songwriter Ashley Hicklin grew up in Scarborough and recorded a music video for the song " All The Time In The World " at Scarborough's Spa Complex and in the amusement arcades.

There is now also an emerging field of study ( Oliver Grau, 2004, and others ) that looks at the " pre-history " of video games, and at the branch of their roots that lie in: fairground attractions and sideshows such as shooting games ; early " Coney Island "- style pleasure parks with elements such as large roller-coasters and " haunted house " simulations ; nineteenth century landscape simulations such as dioramas, panoramas, planetariums, and stereographs ; and amusement arcades that had mechanical game machines and also peep-show film machines.

RollerCoaster Tycoon ( abbreviated RCT ) is a trilogy of video games that simulate amusement park management.

No other video game it made was ever as popular as Berzerk, however, and in 1983 Stern became one of many victims of the amusement industry economic shakeout that occurred.

Indeed there are three or four times as many photo booths in the UK alone than there are in the whole of America where they are typically installed indoors in places for entertainment, such as video arcades and amusement parks.

From 1985 to 1999 twenty-four Kidsongs home video episodes encompassing 300 children's songs and nursery rhymes ( and occasionally cover versions of pop songs ) were produced featuring a variety of subjects that are of interest to kids: animals, birthdays, the zoo, the amusement park, camp adventure, fantasy, vehicles, and general silliness.

As Mayor, Jón has been a source of amusement and shock by appearing at the 2010 Gay Pride parade as a drag queen, posting a video holiday greeting wearing a Darth Vader mask and a Santa Claus cap, and suggesting a merger with neighboring municipality Kópavogur.

Formerly the owner of a jukebox repair / rental business in Osaka, Japan, Kozuki launches Konami to manufacture amusement machines for video arcades.

The comics of Mauricio de Sousa have gained international fame, been featured on licensed merchandise, and have even been adapted for movies, television, video games, and even a São Paulo amusement park, the Parque da Mônica (" Monica's Park ").

The two also appear to have a kiddy sense of fun and amusement, as shown when Bumblebee plays a video game against Wasp to see who's who.

The video showed Carey's roller blading through an amusement park, singing and enjoying herself.

The video begins with Carey exploring the Playland amusement park, located in Rye, New York, on roller blades and riding a wooden coaster.

The spin-offs include a soundtrack with an award-winning song, the TV show Men in Black: The Series, a novelization of each film, video games, and an amusement park ride.