Shoutout to NH toll tokens for being cheaper and working at funspot

I remember my tokens were always gold/copper in color. I don't remember silver. Of course, I was going there in the late eighties / early nineties so probably cheaper to switch to different metal later on. Cool souvenir, those were cool times.

I found one of those (and some very very crumpled paper tickets) the last time I was at my moms too!!! :D a place of joy with the best truly awful pizza in the world.

I spent a few too many evenings there.

Im assuming its an arcade but is it still open and where is it

Yes, it's still open. Home of the American Classic Arcade Museum. I grew up in the '70s and '80s so I try to get back at least once during my annual summer White Mtn vacation, but usually a number of the games I love to play are broken. Gotta be tough maintaining decades-old machines.

I remember green and red ones too

Fun Spot is not just an arcade. It is by their definition, the world's largest arcade. It is in Laconia. And yes, it is still open.

I have a vague recollection that those were “special” tokens worth more than just a single token. No idea if I’m making this up.

Hah, it was your fault- when we were kids we were SO disappointed when we got those at Funspot as it never occurred to us to play them! Luckily my mom would trade us for the NH toll tokens for cash.

I could be wrong but if memory serves me they came out of a slot machine type of game.

They were worth tickets if I remember right

Used to play at the one on Amherst Street/101.

Lol I forgot I had this memory

I have memories of a Funspot tokens in an arcade. It was located at a roller skating place in concord NH called granite skates. It was in the 70's so I may be mis-remembering. Anyone remember?

I just brought my 4 year old there today.

Funworld in Nashua has a similar, too sweet, kind of bad but delicious kid's birthday party pizza.

They still use tokens

They had those machines that had hundreds of tokens piled all around and you tried to get your token to land where the constantly moving back and forth sides could push a ton of tokens into the big slot. I think they were rigged lol

That was my first job back in the early '90s. Good times, great memories. It was pretty amazing that they trusted some goofy sixteen-year-old to carry around several hundred dollars in cash to make change.

We had to sort all those tokens by hand to filter out the highway tokens and other random things people would try in the machines. It was a nice break in a back room, away from all the noise. I used to hear the games in my sleep.

Afterburner was my favorite game there

Chuck E. Cheese tokens worked in the toll booth.

When I worked there, Afterburner was on the 3rd floor, above the bowling center. Before they put in the bar and indoor driving range. The game got played frequently (it was rare for it to be empty of tokens). I wasn't very good at it, but I agree, fun to play!

If you look back in the history, there was a satellite location in Concord but closed by the 90s

Worked the opposite way as well. I had a friend who worked at fun spot in High school and stole a whole bucket of tokens. We used them in the toll baskets for years.

I still have a big purple one! It's plastic instead of metal, it definitely dropped out of one of the token pushing games.

Recently revisited as an adult and the tokens are still alive and well. Funspot is untouched by time.

Spent all my childhood going. Had no clue it was super famous until like 3 years ago.

I grew in Concord and my brain is CRANKING trying to bring up childhood memories I blacked out to try and see it I remember where it was.

Sit in star wars x wing game for me. Death star didnt stand a chance.

And it is apparently a very famous staple in early gamers history. I believe it was because it held the donkey kong cabinet which early gamers would try for the world record. I believe it was because the circuit board was unique an allowed for some time to be shaved off. It was a major destination and the epicenter of the DK World Record scandal I believe.

Look on YouTube for Billy Mitchell and Donkey Kong. I believe there’s a documentary and has lots of vintage NH video. I thought it was fascinating.

Had no clue until I was like 35.

The last time we went, I got one with the my birth year printed on it. I kept it just because I liked the idea of having a Funspot token as old as I was.

I think that one was called Fun World. It had the carousel you could see from the outside, right? I never got to go and always resented my parents for not taking me. :-p

FunSpot, on the other hand I did go to once. It was a core memory and I kinda ruined it when I took my kids there this past summer and realized it was kinda rundown. They did add a bowling alley which was fun. Also, my younger son could not be pried off the bumper cars… I wish I still had kid blinders!

Yes indeed a bunch of the tokens from places like that used to work haha my mom got mad at me for using the chuck e cheese tokens and in the same week caught my mom going to chuck e cheese for them

She went to watch the King- she left with her leftover free pizza tokens!! 🤣

Yes! Funworld pizza was peculiarly good. Had many of my kids’ bday parties there in the mid 90’s

💖 Funspot at Weirs, had some good times there.

I used to take my godson there so we could eat their (arguably) delicious pizza and spend $75 in tickets to get a cheap Chinese-made foot tall traffic light toy.

Looks like a relic from the 80's. I was a big Pacman guy at Funspot in Dover, NH in 1982.

Yes. The price for the fond memories you forged with him.. my kids are long grown but they still remember times at both funworld and funspot

I hope so. His dad died when he was one year old, so I wanted to give him those memories.

That you were there for him is my best news from the internet today :)

No, it was a Funspot for sure. I used to do the token hack too back then (half-price when you bought them by the roll). Right on the corner of 101 and N. Hollis/S. Merrimack in the unit on the left end

What a nice memory. When I was a kid you had to go to a beach town to find arcades. Worcester had a few in the 80s, one on Cambridge St and one on James St. Are kids so different now that arcades will disappear like so many other things?

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Huh. I guess I stand corrected. Never knew about that one. I heard they had a few satellites- maybe one in Concord? Never went to any but the OG. Thanks for setting me straight (and not being a dick about it, haha.)

Lol - no prob. I think there might have been one in Dover too? Up near a traffic circle back in the ... '80s? I set my personal best Galaga score there - screen 272 and it stopped sending guys down - only time I ever beat the game.

My sister in law met him there a few years ago. She was star struck and he offered to show her the tricks to DK. I personally find that a bit creepy....she was 18 at the time and he would have been 52. Also he's a douche nozzle.

I worked at Funspot and token sorting was a crappy job, but I know people that volunteered for it so they could snag the highway tokens.

Yea… He doesn’t do himself any favors with his look. I imagine he wears so much Brut. He used to stream on Twitch for a hot second. I couldn’t resist.