Interesting arcade related find

[grimbal]

My family made our weekly trip to Chuck E. Cheese today. They're pretty lame today compared to when I was a kid. Anyway, they gave us our free tokens and my daughter was picking through the coins. She gave one to me and said that I could have it because it was different from the rest. Well I looked at the coin and it is a Space Invaders token from the Video Expo at 1982 Worlds' Fair in Knoxville Tennessee!!

I couldn't believe my eyes. Not really a valuable find but definitely surprising to get it out of the dispenser. Needless to say I didn't use it. Funny that it has been floating in circulation for 12 years.

[Pantechnicon]

No, that's pretty cool when you consider the era it came from. Tokens, and their collectible value, if any, have been discussed in other threads. I recently found a 1988 Chuck E. Cheese token there on a recent visit and kept it mainly just to show my wife how different it was from the newer ones. She just gave me that look for even noticing this.

[MarioAllStar2600]

I have tons of different tokens. I like to save my unique ones. I ahve to say though that space invaders one is freaking cool. Never heard of it.