Question: Many a carnival sideshow and Penny arcade contained what type of amusement?

Context articles: The Big O (album)
List of Penny Arcade characters
Jerry Holkins
PAX (event)
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Carnival Diablo
MC Frontalot
Penny Arcade (disambiguation)
Strip Search (web series)
Fortune teller machine

The Big O is the fifteenth music album recorded by Roy Orbison, his first for London Records in the United Kingdom, with the music and backing vocals provided by English group, the Art Movement on all tracks except for "Penny Arcade", which was a studio recording and released as a single in the UK in 1969, where it peaked at #27 and would be Orbison's last UK chart success during his lifetime.
 "Penny Arcade" was also his biggest hit in Australia, spending four weeks at Number One around Christmas, 1969.
 The second single, "Break My Mind", was Orbison's last Australian chart success during his lifetime, reaching #24 in March 1970.
 The album was released in Europe in early 1970.
This is a list of "Penny Arcade" characters.
 Many characters are reinterpreted in the Penny Arcade video game, "On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness".
 Those that are will be noted as such.
Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson (born February 6, 1976 in the United States) is the primary writer of the webcomic "Penny Arcade" along with its artist Mike Krahulik.
 Holkins sometimes uses the pseudonym "Tycho Brahe", the name of a "Penny Arcade" character based on Holkins.
PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming festivals held in Seattle, Boston, Melbourne, Philadelphia, and San Antonio.
 PAX was created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the authors of the "Penny Arcade" webcomic, because they wanted to attend a show exclusively for gaming.
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, located in Farmington Hills, Michigan, is devoted to a huge collection of coin-operated animatronic dummies, mechanical games and other oddities.
 Exhibits include, for example, the classic gypsy Fortune teller machine that used to grace many a carnival sideshow.
 Most of the machines still function, so visitors are encouraged to bring change.
 The museum's founder, Marvin Yagoda, had been collecting the items that populate the 5500 sqft museum for 50 years.
 Yagoda was a recognized expert in the field of mechanical and electrical game apparatus; he has been involved in appraisal of such items for the television series "American Pickers".
 Marvin Yagoda died on January 8, 2017 at the age of 78.
Carnival Diablo the Ultimate Sideshow is an award winning traveling sideshow operating primarily in Ontario, Canada.
 Performances by the troupe follow a traditional Ten-in-One format featuring such acts as fire-eating, sword swallowing and a human blockhead, with show times lasting two and a half hours.
 Carnival Diablo opened on April Fools' Day 1992 by Scott McClelland, whose family goes back three generations in the carnival and side show business.
 Shows have been performed across Canada, including shows at The Calgary Stampede, Edmonton's Klondike Days (now K-Days,) Regina's Buffalo Days, and the Canadian Tulip Festival.
 In 2008 and 2009, Carnival Diablo was featured act at Carnivàle Lune Bleue,; a dedicated revival of a 1930s old-time carnival located in Ottawa, Ontario.
Damian Hess (born December 3, 1973), better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is a Brooklyn-based hip hop musician.
 He is best known in hip hop and video game culture, for naming the nerdcore subgenre, and performing at "Penny Arcade"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s annual Penny Arcade Expo.
 Hess graduated from Wesleyan University in 1996 with degrees in English and electronic music.
Penny Arcade is an American webcomic focused on video games and video game culture.
 Penny Arcade may also refer to:
Strip Search is an online reality television game show created by "Penny Arcade" and produced by Bionic Trousers Media, the production arm of sketch comedy website LoadingReadyRun.
 The show featured twelve artists who competed over thirty-one episodes, with the series' winner receiving a cash prize and integration into the Penny Arcade offices in Seattle for one year.
 The show was created as a reward-tier for "Penny Arcade's" 2012 Kickstarter campaign to remove ads from their website.
 The first season was won by artist Katie Rice, who went on to produce the ongoing webcomic, "Camp Weedonwantcha".
A fortune teller machine is a type of amusement, which upon receiving credit gives out a card with a prediction of the reader's future.
 They could be found in penny arcades, and can be seen in modern video arcades and amusement parks.