Morphy's will be heading west later this month to cement its presence in Las Vegas as the premier auction house for antique coin-op machines and antique advertising. The firm will conduct a huge ...

Rumours of the death of the arcade game have been greatly exaggerated. At least, that was the message from exhibitors at last month's Amusement Trade Exhibition International (ATEI) show in London.

The noise is unmistakable, though it’s heard at fewer and fewer casinos these days. Clank-clank-clank-clank-clank. That’s the sound of money — metal coins hitting a metal tray — signifying slot or ...

Editor's note: This article was originally published on February 1, 2008, and has been updated. It was excerpted from our Coin-Operated Laundry start-up guide, available from Entrepreneur Bookstore.

Potential investors poured into the convention of the National Institute of Dry-cleaning two years ago, clamoring to find out about a new “wonder business” that was virtually guaranteed to coin ...

A new book by ExtremeTech editor-in-chief Jamie Lendino shows how coin-op arcade machines set the standards all console and computer games aspired to for the first 25 years of the video game industry.

Although the word "arcade" carries strong connotations of videogame splendour, our generation has a very unique and, dare I say, limited opinion of what the amusements once were. Our time in them was ...

Percival Everitt doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, but video game historian Alex Smith describes this Norfolk-born engineer as the “father of the coin-op industry”. This weekend in 1884 he patented ...