Playland Park

Playland Park Playland is Michigan's oldest video arcade, featuring many old school and classic games, four differ

Home to Playland Park, Bonkers, Saint Lucifer's Haunted Asylum, and 13 Feet Under.

07/22/2024

We had a bunch of Umatic tapes from commercials made in the late 1980s of the Dort Highway location. Recently we have made a push to get them converted from Umatic to MP4. After a long search Groundworks at U of M came through with a UMatic player that could be used. There are not many places that still have a Umatic player left. We had 11 tapes and all have been converted. Going to go over all of the media and edit some. Here is a straight unedited convert of "Playland Raw #4 - NIGHT", which is the raw footage of one of the commercials already uploaded.

Up next we have a lot of the radio ads that were run in the late 80s to late 90s. There are so many cassettes. It's going to take time to get them all converted.

04/09/2024

Posting on behalf of the Grand Blanc High School class of 2011 and Jameson Allen:

The postponed Grand Blanc High School class of 2011 reunion will happen on August 31, 2024.

There are a total of 200 spots available. We’ll be making them available in sets of 50 so everyone gets a fair chance to get one rather than them all getting blitzed at once.

01/12/2024

No idea why we have this footage. This was shot during the time that Playland Park North was sold to another person, but before it was given back to the Werner family. No commerical here.

01/05/2024

Little jingle about Playland Park & the raw footage used in the commerical.

12/28/2023

Bonkers Pizzeria used to be called Starbucks. This was a sponsorship for WFUM TV28.

Circa the early 90s.

12/07/2023

Parties, go-karts, arcade, and the Easter Bunny? Sign me up.
--> March/26/1993

We got some VHS tapes digitized this week. Still have a few more things to go through like radio ad cassettes. Going to ...
12/02/2023

We got some VHS tapes digitized this week. Still have a few more things to go through like radio ad cassettes. Going to be posting the contents of these VHS tapes over the next few weeks.

Umatic and other visual media will have to looked into later.

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06/18/2023

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Playland operated from 1969 - 2018. The last days were anything but fun.

Today in 2015 we moved around all of our machines during the process of creating Escape the Zombie for Crack the Code.
12/22/2018

Today in 2015 we moved around all of our machines during the process of creating Escape the Zombie for Crack the Code.

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Flint, MI
48507

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