About Us

Seventy-Two Years of Business:

New Orleans Novelty Company has a long and colorful history in the amusement game business. We are known throughout the country for being distributors, operators and innovators. Famous for selling first-class, reconditioned used games worldwide and famous for fast and efficient service. Famous for new concepts in pay for play entertainment.

Louis Boasberg founded the company while playing football for Tulane University's Rose Bowl Team in the early thirties. Football helmits were optional then. Louis was a gentleman and a scholar, a historian, a writer and a pioneer in the amusement game business. His son Jack and grandson Mark now run the Company. Jack studied cinema with George Lucas at Southern Cal. He now devotes his time developing new concepts in interactive game play and loves to paint with light (Digital Photography). Mark runs the company, sells new and used amusement games, likes to fish and talk football.

Louis Boasberg's Dad, Jack Mark Boasberg, ran a small gambling Hall (the Beverly) in this area while young Satchmo, Louis Armstrong played his cool Jazz to the customers.

Jack remembers walking down Boubon Street in New Orleans with Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari. He told Jack he had some great ideas about putting games in a cabinet with a video screen. Soon after the "Big Bang" of video games happened. Video Games are now a major part of our entertainment culture.

Jack will never forget when Nolan sent our Company a Computer Space Game with a Sara Lee Pie Pan in the bottom of the cabinet to collect the falling quarters.

New Orleans Novelty Company set up one of the first airport game rooms in the country and operated one of the first free standing arcades, "The Fun Arcade". The Fun Arcade is still around and remains a very sucessful arcade today. The "Game Klub" is New Orleans Novelty Company's newest concept arcade for interactive game play. The Game Klub is located within our main complex at 3030 N. Arnoult Road in Metairie, Louisiana 70002 (only a few minutes from New Orleans).

Call us today if you want to purchase a first class used game or a brand new amusement game. Call Mark Boasberg at (504) 888-3500 extension 2. Call Mark for game prices, game advice, fishing advice, football news or where to eat in New Orleans.

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