John Yates, the avid collector responsible for the museum, has created a cozy little place to play a bunch of true classics. When we arrived there were a handful of customers playing games and a few volunteers working hard moving new games into place and keeping the ones on the floor working 100%. There is no admission fee to get into the museum, but games do cost twenty five cents while cockpit games a mere fifty cents. Donations to a worthy cause! After the grand tour we spent the afternoon pumping quarters into the games.

While I didn’t get an exact count, the museum has between 35-40 working games. There were 7 games I had never played before in a dedicated cab, that was amazing. I discovered a few new “must haves”, that’s for sure. For more background information about the Arcade Museum, check out the posts at rotheblog as he’s covered all the details. It isn’t often you get to see a lineup like this in the wild. If you can make the trip, it is certainly worth it. Bring your quarters and support the Arcade Museum.

I’m not sure how well this was accepted by operators or arcade owners, but I imagine it was a tough sell. An extra monitor would have added a few hundred bucks to the cost and that’s a lot of quarters. Maybe that’s why I never saw one, they just didn’t sell. It appears to be just a simple monitor in a plastic housing, otherwise known as a television, with some type of mounting bracket to secure it to the top of the cabinet. I imagine it had a Y connector to branch the video from the printed circuit board (PCB), to both the cabinet and top mounted monitor. It would be interesting to see how it set up. If anyone has any more information about these units, or even better, some pictures of them in the wild, please drop me a line! Game on.