Flyercade is my private collection of printed coin-operated video game brochures online. Also known as “flyers”, I started collecting them in 1983 by mailing business letters to video game manufacturers. Usually, when I received replies, I was lucky enough to receive a few flyers.
Fortunately, many arcade operators were pack rats and kept the video game flyers they received over the decades. When Ebay emerged in 1999, it opened a new marketplace for them, which reawakened my passion to collect video game flyers.
Over the last twenty five years, I’ve acquired flyers I never imagined I would find that collectively capture a unique history about the coin-op video game industry.
Most of the flyers I collect are from the first twenty years of the industry (1971 to 1991), although recently I decided to collect newer flyers with discretion, focusing on video game series and sequels that were released in the early 1990s up to the present day.
Special thanks to
Sur-Gin. Without Gin’s time and dedication to monitoring flyer auctions, managing funds and shipping flyers to me over the last two plus decades, my flyer collection wouldn’t be what it is today. This website is a result of Gin’s time and effort as much as my own.
Contributions are not accepted
Flyercade is strictly for my private collection, therefore:
- I do not post images of flyers that belong to other collectors
- I do not post images of flyers that exist the Internet
- I do not sell or offer flyers from my collection, in any state or format
If you have flyers or anything else that tells a story about video game history, I recommend you consider donating your materials to the Video Game History Foundation, the Strong Museum of Play or the National Videogame Museum.