NZ Classic Arcade Museum

If you have seen the movie, Donkey Kong : A fistful of quarters, then you will understand who we are & what we are planning to achieve.

We are Funspot NZ, the NZ Classic Arcade Museum.

We are a non-profit society, established to promote and preserve the history of 80s coin-operated arcade games. The arcade museum will cover the industry from its inception, focusing on 80s games, through to the 90s era of arcade games.

The arcade industry has a colourful and lively history that is not being preserved for future generations.

Many manufacturers such as Midway, Gottlieb, Atari, and many more are no longer in the coin operated game business. Their history and the games they produced are fading away and need a place where that legacy can be remembered and preserved.

The goals of the organisation will be accomplished through the creation of a museum that will house this collection and other donated antique and classic coin-operated machines all of which will be available for play. Any income taken in from the games will go to offset the operating expenses of the museum such as rent, electricity, spare parts, purchasing & restoring arcade machines, a Curator and other related costs.

The museum will also include written, audio, video and electronic data containing the history of coin-operated games and the people who created them.

One of the major goals of the organisation will be keeping alive the history of coin-operated arcade games.

The museum will also hold the NZ championships for all the classic 80s arcade games, as well as the 90s arcade games, as seen in the donkey kong movie, filmed at Funspot USA.

The NZ Classic Arcade Museum will be a one of a kind facility that will keep this part of NZ history alive for those that experienced it and for those who were too young to remember, & for those who weren't born yet.

By 1990 these type of arcades had ended, as a new era of fighting games began.

We have secured a warehouse in East Tamaki, Manukau, & operating costs are $ 70.000. thousand a year, rent, rates, body corporate.etc,

This is what we are fundraising for.

On top of this amount, is the immediate additional expense of buying arcade games & restoring them to excellent condition.

So as you can imagine, our expenses are huge & our income doesn't exist yet, so if this fundraising campaign fails, ....

its GAME OVER for us ( get it !!! )

no HIGH SCORES will be achieved !!!

Insert you donkey kong, quote / slang/ joke... here..

As it wont be on, like donkey Kong...!!

so we can only exist with the financial & physical support of like minded volunteers, as we seek to create a viable classic arcade museum, with an operating arcade, & NZ championships competitions.

We seek volunteers who would like to support the arcade museum, as well as donated arcade games for the museums collection.

Anyone wishing to volunteer or donate arcade games should email us at,

nzclassicarcademuseum@techie.com

We are looking to be open before the end of the year, so please, please, please, support our vision, & bring your kids too. so they can also live the fun of your mis-spent youth of the 80s & early 90s era arcades !!!!!

Big Shout out to Steve Wiebe here,