Wiktionary
n. A venue for coin-operated entertainment devices, most notably during the 1930s.
WordNet
n. an arcade with coin-operated devices for entertainment
Wikipedia
Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic strip each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The comics are accompanied by regular updates on the site's blog.
Penny Arcade is among the most popular and longest running gaming webcomics currently online, listed in 2010 as having 3.5 million readers. Holkins and Krahulik are among the first webcomic creators successful enough to make a living from their work. In addition to the comic, Holkins and Krahulik also created Child's Play, a children's charity; PAX, an annual gaming convention, and the episodic video game Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness with Hothead Games and Zeboyd Games.
Penny Arcade (born Susana Carmen Ventura, July 15, 1950), is an American performance artist, actress, and playwright based in New York City.
Penny Arcade is an American webcomic focused on video games and video game culture. Penny Arcade may also refer to:
- Penny arcade, a venue for coin-operated devices
- Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, a series of video games based on the webcomic
- Penny Arcade, a 1929 play led by American actor and dancer James Cagney. The protagonist plays a colorful lowlife in a melodrama about murder in a carnival setting.
- Penny Arcade: The Series a series of documentary webisodes (six, ) comprising behind-the-scenes footage relating to the webcomic and its producers, with occasional guest stars such as Wil Wheaton
- Penny Arcade Expo, an annual gamer festival started by the webcomic's creators
- Penny Arcade (performer), the stage name of performance artist and playwright Susanna Ventura
- "Penny Arcade", a song by Roy Orbison
- "Penny Arcade", a 1967 single by The Cyrkle
- Penny Arcade, an early video game by Bill Budge, mimicking Pong
Usage examples of "penny arcade".
Down the street there was a penny arcade full of people, a grocery, and a hardware store.
They saw it as soon as they cleared the trees by the Penny Arcade.
Jenny missed the old penny arcade, which had been dark and somewhat spooky, filled with machines from the turn of the century.
He passed a penny arcade, where teenagers cranked old fashioned moviemachines as they peered in the scopes, chuckling evilly.
He passed a penny arcade, where teenagers cranked old-fashioned movie machines as they peered in the scopes, chuckling evilly.
We returned to the hotel, then, for a few before-lunch drinks, and following lunch we went to a penny arcade.
Half a block down, where there had been a penny arcade full of flashing lights and bells and dangerous- looking young men with cigarettes dangling from the corners of their mouths as they played the Gottlieb Desert Isle or Space Race, where that had been there was now an Orange Julius with a flock of young blacks standing in front of it, their lower bodies moving gently as if somewhere jive played on and on, jive that only black ears could hear.
I ate lunch there in the station restaurant and then I went to the penny arcade and a shooting gallery and another restaurant and all to heck around.
Their routine was: she would arrive home each night from downtown Los Angeles and he would have hamburgers waiting or they would walk down the beach to eat hot dogs, spend ten or twenty cents in the Penny Arcade, go home, make love, go to sleep, and repeat the whole wondrous routine the next night: hot dogs, Penny Arcade, love, sleep, work, etc.
We'll just take the city's money and buy a penny arcade down in Norton or a nice little pitch 'n' putt out in Russell or Crescent.