June 19 2010

Arcadia® hosts additional events with key selections from its collection at our special gallery event in Portland, Oregon held on May 6, 2010 (one of two shows we held in Portland that year), and our Arcadia event held in conjunction with E3 (leading videogame industry trade show) on June 15-19, 2010.

January 31 2010

In January, 2010, VAPS began to allow any records in our database to be added to the census project. This made sense as many collectors of coin-operated videogames owned other types of coin-operated machines, and additionally, since the International Arcade Museum's only encyclopedia had contained a large variety of amusement machine types for the previous eight years.

December 31 2009

In 2009, the KLOV's message forums were upgraded and moved to http://forums.arcade-museum.com/ as the forums have sections about all types of coin-operated machines in addition to videogame sections. The old forum URL continues to work as a redirect to the new address.

Also in 2009, the VAPS.org web site was upgraded and moved to http://www.arcade-museum.com/vaps/ in order to enhance features between VAPS and the KLOV. VAPS began to allow Pinball machines to be added to its census project.

September 09 2009

On 09/09/09 the International Arcade Museum Library was incorporated. Though separately run from the main site and museum efforts, we are happy to support the efforts of this 501c3 non-profit. Find out more at library.arcade-museum.com.

July 31 2009

In July, 2009, the International Arcade Museum's web site added over 100,000 pages of PDF content from The Music Trade Review as well as Presto Magazine, early music industry publications. These publications cover a full history of the transitional eras from mechanical music to phonographs and jukeboxes and radio. These issues from the 1890s through 1950s originally came from the New York Library system but have been in the Music Box Society International collection for many years. Funding for the scanning itself was provided by NAMM, the leading music trade association. A search engine at was set up for easy research on these pdf files. There are over 40.5 million words/page records in the search engine linking to these Music Trade Review and Presto issues.

July 24 2009

Today arcadedocs.com has been merged back into arcade-museum.com. All manual and similar content will now appear on the main site (only).

November 30 2008

The International Arcade Museum acquired the copyright to the first ten years of Coin Slot Magazine, the leading magazine for collectors of coin operated machines during the 1970s and 1980s. In November 2008, these issues were published on the IAM's web site.

August 06 2008

Games Magazine, in their September 2008 issue, includes a 5 page article entitled Preserving Video Arcade Games and writes about the International Arcade Museum, KLOV.com, and VAPS.org

January 23 2006

On January 23, 2006, The International Arcade Museum assumed management of the Video Arcade Preservation Society (VAPS), the leading collector's group and census taker serving the coin-operated video game community. VAPS had already operated for nearly twenty years, and Kevin Ruddy had been the VAPS keeper for the last ten. The VAPS.org web site was also converted to work on the LAMP platform.

Links between the KLOV database and VAPS were created. Each individual game's entry in KLOV began to show a current count of the Video Arcade Preservation Society's (VAPS) current statistics regarding collector ownership of that particular game.

As a result of the VAPS numbers in KLOV entries, those with little knowledge of a game might infer that a game is far more uncommon than it really is. Because of this, a few sellers on eBay quoted KLOV entries only for the VAPS numbers as "proof" of the rarity of a title, potentially misleading suspecting buyers. In response, the KLOV added 'Wanted' VAPS statistics to its game pages and added explanatory text that machines might be uncommon in collections simply because no one wanted them even though they might exist in quantity in dealer's inventories.

July 17 2005

An Arcadia™ / Penny Arcadia™ exhibition of over 150 classic machines was held in Pasadena, California in July 2005. Coin operated machine and arcade enthusiasts from around the United States, England, and Australia flew in specifically for this event.

July 13 2005

Collecting VideoGames is Hot according to the July 18, 2005 issue of Newsweek... which calls KLOV.COM the "IMDB for players, with titles, photos and dates..."

January 01 2005

At the start of 2005, there were nearly 13000 total entries in The International Arcade Museum's online encyclopedia. A key focus continues to be added photos to game records.

April 27 2004

Today our manual section passed over 800 manuals, each linked to individual game records!

January 01 2004

The KLOV focused on adding photos to as many machines as possible that previously had none.

September 30 2003

The KLOV passed 4000 video-game entries in September 2003, and there were now also 8000 non-videogame entries in the master encyclopedia.

The International Arcade Museum® takes over Penny Arcadia® and adds Video Arcadia™ and Pinball Arcadia™ to Arcadia®.