Wanted: scans of Time-Out tokens

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Did you already get what you need?

I've got an old Time Out token, but I don't know if it's before they
were bought out by Namco/Sega (I'm not familiar with the ownership
history of Time-Out, heck I didn't even know it was a chain... all I
knew was there was just one in the Mall where I grew up...

Anyhow, one one side it reads "Family Amusement Center" around the rim,
"For amusement only" and "non refundable" inside of that, and
"TIME-OUT" in the very center. The obverse reads TIME-OUT(R) at the
top, and "Family Amusement Center" around the rest, and it has some
arcs in the center; there's a grid background, and some lines inside of
the "O" of OUT.

If this is what you're looking for, and you haven't got it from someone
else, let me know and I can scan it. It's kind of dis-colored on one
side... (any one know the best way to clean old tokens???)

Darren Finck

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The font on the token I have is definately more like the old logo.
I'll take it to work today and scan it...

df

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Hehe, those aren't my photos. I wish I could take credit for them. If
you look at the comment for this picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petro [...] et-553223/

you'll see the album's owner says "Use to work for Pac Man (Namco) who
gobbled up the Time Out arcade chains in the 90's. When they took over
they threw out boxes of stuff. I took what boxes of slides and photos
there were.".

-Peter

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Too cool. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

-Peter

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Wanted it for a couple reasons. Nostalgia was a big one. Was looking
into a custom design for the tokens for my gameroom (since the company
that had a standard design that I liked - lombardomint.com- seems to be
gone now), and actually _was_ considering reproing the old Time-Out
tokens. I at least want to do the 'artwork' for the Time-Out tokens in
Adobe Illustrator as I did for those arcade signs I did recently. Even
if I end up coming up with my own token design, I still wanted them to
have somewhat of a Time-Out influence to them, if that makes sense.

Thirdly, I'm thinking about starting a Time-Out fansite. Any interest
in this? Sort of like what this person did for Chuck-E-Cheese
(http://rock_afire.tripod.com/). Gotta ask that Flickr album guy if
he'll license his Time-Out pictures to me. :-)

-Peter