Profile of a whimsical arcade machine maker

Mark Frauenfelder 8:55 am Tue Oct 24, 2017

Playing for Laughs at London’s Wackiest Arcade

Playing for Laughs at London’s Wackiest Arcade Watch this video on YouTube. I got to know cartoonist/engineer Tim Hunkin while I was editor-in-chief of Make magazine (here are some of…

I got to know cartoonist/engineer Tim Hunkin while I was editor-in-chief of Make magazine (here are some of the articles he wrote for me there). Tim has a great sense of humor, and one of the ways he expresses it is by building funny coin-operated amusements with names like “Pet or Meat,” “Autofrisk,” and “My Nuke – Personal Nuclear Reactor”. He has two arcades in England and I would love to visit them sometime.

Here's a longer profile of Tim's work:

For amusement Only

Watch this video on YouTube.

Here' the video for "My Nuke":

My-Nuke, personal Nuclear Reactor

Watch this video on YouTube.

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