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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Josh Barrie

Hidden London: Novelty Automation might just save your marriage

At the far end of the Novelty Automation museum, a couple are suffering through a divorce. Not really — these two are probably not even married, such is their youth — but by way of a retro-style arcade game that begins with an angry looking pair of dummy figures fighting over a model house inside a glass cabinet. For a handful

of tokens, players are required to spin a handwheel with more speed than their counterpart in a desperate bid to see their side win, signalled by flashing red lights and a greedy share of the home. The fact the end of the game always leads to the splitting in half of the family dog, kids falling out of bedrooms and an irate looking Henry vacuum cleaner wobbling perilously on one side of the newly divided hallway is merely par for the course.

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