Funspot Family Fun Center - American Classic Arcade Museum

The third floor of Funspot houses the American Classic Arcade Museum. Before the museum was founded, Funspot had classic games spread throughout the building. Gary Vincent, an employee of Funspot and now curator of the Classic Arcade Museum, came up with the idea of collecting the games in one spot to give visitors to the arcade a different way of understanding the games. Opened in the late 1990s, the American Classic Arcade Museum collects arcade games, pinball machines, and electro-mechanic games built no later than 1987. When asked why 1987 was picked as the cut off date, Gary Vincent replied, "We set the cut off date as 1987 because that is pretty much about the time when we noticed that the videogame industry was starting to change. Instead of having fantasy-based games, puzzle-based, space shoot ’em up games or whatever, it seemed to switch over to more of what I call ‘kick-punch-shoot’ games."

There are 180 games on the floor at any one time, with another 100 housed in a warehouse. Billy Baker of The Boston Globe called the museum "the Louvre of the '8-bit' world," and the Guinness Book of World Records names the American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot as the World's Largest Arcade by number of games.

Since 1998, the American Classic Arcade Museum has hosted the Annual Classic Videogame and Pinball Tournament, where people come from all over the world to try to beat records on the arcade games housed in the museum. Referees from the Guinness Book of World Records are on hand to verify the record attempts. At the 10th tournament alone, well over 20 records were set. Records were set by well-known gamers such as Billy Mitchell, Steve Wiebe, and Brian Wagner.

During the end of the 1980s, with the decline in interest in arcade games, Funspot started deaccessioning its games. Once the museum was founded, Funspot began looking to regain those games they lost. One such lost game was the first video game to appear in Funspot, Tank II. It was installed around 1977 and sold off in the late 1980s. Another copy was acquired by the museum, but it is not the original game that used to be housed at Funspot. To reaccession games, the museum purchases some on eBay and has many donated. Often, nonworking or partial games are donated, and restoration work, sometimes years' worth, must be done to get them in working order.

In 2007, the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters was filmed in the museum portion of Funspot.