Broadway landmarks on both US coasts are now considered part of video gaming history.

Video gaming historian Patrick Scott Patterson has added the Sassony Arcade in Los Angeles and the Toy Center Building in New York City to his Registry of Historic Locations, a project aimed to preserve the history of sites important in the development and culture of the video game industry.

The decades-old Sassony Arcade was the site of the arcade scene in 1982’s ‘Rocky III’ where a drunken Paulie wrecks a pinball machine. The Toy Center Building housed the offices of Nintendo of America in 1980, when the company was still struggling to break into the North American video game market.

“It’s important that the history of these sites is recorded and documented,” Patterson said. “The history of all other forms of entertainment is celebrated in much the same fashion, but many important sites to video gaming still aren’t. I’ve been aiming to change that.”

The inclusion of the two new sites brings the total induction count for Patterson’s project up to 25 sites. Other locations already listed include the former headquarters for companies such as Bally Midway and Atari, filming locations for films such as ‘Tron” and the ‘Karate Kid’ and the first locations of companies such as GameStop and Chuck E. Cheese.

The full listing of sites can be found on http://www.PatrickScottPatterson.com


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