Editing Amusement arcade (section)

===Penny arcade===
{{About||the webcomic|Penny Arcade|other uses|Penny Arcade (disambiguation)}}
{{Further|Electro-mechanical game}}
[[File:Penny arcade1.JPG|thumb|Early machine at [[Wookey Hole Caves]]]]

A penny arcade can be any type of venue for [[coin-operated]] devices, usually for entertainment. The term came into use about 1905–1910.<ref name=Nasaw/> The name derives from the [[penny]], once a staple coin for the machines.  The machines used included:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gameroomshow.com/shop/penny-arcade-machines/|title=Penny Arcade Machines|access-date=26 June 2016|archive-date=5 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805192749/https://www.gameroomshow.com/shop/penny-arcade-machines/|url-status=live}}</ref>

* [[bagatelle]]s, a game with elements of [[billiards]] and non-electrical pinball,
* early forms of non-electrical [[pinball]] machines,
* [[Fortune teller machine|fortune-telling machinery]],
* [[slot machine]]s,
* coin-operated [[Amberola]]s
* peep show machines (in the original, non-pornographic, usage of the term), which allowed the viewer to see various objects and pictures
* [[Mutoscope]]s
* [[love tester machine]]s.
* coin-operated [[shooter games]] and [[gun game]]s

Between the 1940s and 1960s, mechanical [[arcade games]] evolved into [[electro-mechanical games]] (EM games). Popular examples of EM games in the 1960s included shooters such as [[Sega]]'s ''[[Periscope (arcade game)|Periscope]]'' (1965) and ''[[Rifleman (arcade game)|Rifleman]]'' (1967), and [[racing games]] such as Kasco's ''Indy 500'' (1968) and [[Chicago Coin]]'s ''Speedway'' (1969). Penny arcades later led to the creation of video arcades in the 1970s.