At The Games Room Company, we have a wide selection of brand new and beautifully reconditioned games machines - the perfect accompaniment to your games room.
The very first mechanical gambling machine is often claimed to be the 'Eureka box' made in America in 1888. This was a small glass fronted case with a pile of coins inside - the jackpot. The played coins fell on a weighing scale, and when their cumulative weight tipped the balance, the jackpot was released. There are, unfortunatley, no known surviving examples. Other similar machines were called 'Two Door Bank' and 'Pyramid Banker'. However, the more elaborate fruit machines, one which we would recognise today, date as far back as 1899 with the creation of 'The Judge' made by the Mills Manufacturing company.
Video arcade games first became popular in the early 1970s with the formation of Atari who essentially created the coin-operated video game industry with the game Pong, the smash hit electronic ping pong video game. Video game arcades sprang up in shopping malls, and small 'corner arcades' appeared in restaurants, grocery stores, bars and movie theatres all over the United States and other countries during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Games such as Space Invaders (1978), Galaxian (1979), Pac-Man (1980), Battlezone (1980), and Donkey Kong (1981) were especially popular and remain so today.
From recondiitoned fruit machines to faithful reproductions, original arcade games to brand new modern ones, The Games Room have something for you.
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