Automatic Age Magazine

We currently have 213 issues with 25,111 pages of this publication online!

Automatic Age magazine is the most important arcade & coin-op industry publication from the era of the roaring '20s through the end of World War II. Highly prized by collectors, and previously very hard to find or gain access to, these issues provide a unique insight into a time of dynamic industry growth and invention.

This digitization project, part of the Arcade and Pinball History Project, has been over three years in the making. It has required the consent and assistance from numerous people from this instutition, academia, companies, and families. In particular we would like to extend special thanks to Lightner Publishing, the Graham family, and the University of Chicago Library for their active support of this project. This project was coordinated by the International Arcade Museum. Many future digitization efforts will likely be led by the International Arcade Museum Library (The Library is independent of the Museum).

We continue to look for our three missing issues: Vol. 1. No. 4 November 1925, Vol. 1 No. 5 December 1925, and Vol. 8 No. 6 January 1932.

PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING ORIGINAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION TO OUR LIBRARY, REGARDLESS OF ISSUE.

The current list of paper copies we hold can be found on our Automatic Age Issues page.