Cat. № POSTER-006 · Archive reference image
Arcade & Console Relics № 006
Pennywise Arcade — Stephen King 1984
Available · one owner onlyArchive note
Japanese arcade flyer advertising a fictional horror game based on Stephen King's It, targeting young players with the promise of a Pennywise-themed cabinet experience. The design merges 1980s arcade aesthetics with manga-style children fleeing a malevolent clown, creating cognitive dissonance between the innocent game-player demographic and the nightmarish subject matter. A document of a game that never shipped, preserved from an alternate arcade history where King's intellectual property and children's entertainment occupied the same cultural space.
One artifact. One owner. On acquisition it is permanently retired from the archive. You receive the high-resolution file and a signed certificate of exclusivity.
About the certificate →Print specification
2816 × 1536 px · 4.3 MP · landscape
- Section
- Arcade & Console Relics
- Style
- vintage arcade flyer, manga-influenced, hand-drawn
- Mood
- uncanny, nostalgic, transgressive
- Palette
- red, yellow, blue, black
- Collection
- It Arcade Game Variants
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