It wouldn’t be right to have my arcade run on anything but tokens. My fondest memories of the old Aladdin’s Castle located at the HIP (Harlem Irving Plaza), was putting in my dollar and getting a handful of tokens. Those cool, custom Aladdin’s Castle tokens. Most of the time it was just 4, but I remember the specials when you’d get 6! Those were the days. A smelly, smokey game room, flashing lights and arcade sounds and the token machine plinking out tokens in the background. It just didn’t get any better. (more…)