Gamestar Arcade

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 one's 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.

In the 1930s, the earliest coin-operated pinball machines were made. These early amusement devices were distinct from their later electronic cousins in that they were made of wood, did not have plungers or lit-up bonus surfaces on the playing field, and used mechanical instead of electronic scoring readouts. By around 1977, most pinball machines in production switched to using solid state electronics for both operation and scoring.

Arcades have come a long way:

Gamestar Arcade is a new kind of gaming arcade. It offers play by the hour gaming on HDTV’s. We offer variety of a quality games in numerous categories. Our aim is to give you the best and newest games to play Arcade gaming still has a bright future, and Gamestar Arcade is happy to be a part of that.