TAFA To Launch Two New Archives
As I was perusing The Arcade Flyer Archive yesterday in search of an appropriate piece for Arcade Flyer Art Saturday, I noticed a little announcement post from site co-owner Dan Hower. After acquiring over 10,000 new coin-op flyers from a private collector, TAFA plans to launch two new archive collections, The Pinball Flyer Archive and The Arcade and Amusement Game Archive.
The pinball flyer archive will include electromechanical, solid state, bingo, video pinball and pinball redemption. The arcade and amusement game flyer archive will include an even wider assortment of game types, including pitch n' bat, rifle, bowler, novelty, driver, wall, 16mm film and other electromechanical and novelty coin-op equipment. The three flyer archives will be independently cataloged.
To help pay for the costs of getting these new sites off the ground, Dan will be selling TAFA's original duplicate flyers on eBay under the name "dphower." I will be sure to post an announcement once these flyers go up for auction so perhaps you can buy a great piece of arcade art and support TAFA at the same time. TAFA is an amazing resource and historical archive and if you haven't checked them out before, you owe it to yourself to do it now. I would also like to personally thank Dan and his partner in the site Eric Jacobson for working so hard to preserve a huge chunk of arcade history.