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Terrible and Not-So-Good Photos From the Arcade Reselling World

Terrible and Not-So-Good Photos From the Arcade Reselling World

arcadehero May 17, 2016 0

Back when I was looking for a house, I stumbled across a blog that documented terrible photos from the Real Estate world. You would think that in the process of selling a house that

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Newsbash: Cut The Rope Videmption; Classic Arcade Finder; More Mario Kart GPDX Play

Newsbash: Cut The Rope Videmption; Classic Arcade Finder; More Mario Kart GPDX Play

arcadehero August 2, 2013 1

Well this was a slow news week. Slow enough that I don’t have a whole lot to share today but as mentioned in the last multi-news post, that will change with the AAMA Gala

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The Video Fever circa 1982

arcadehero August 14, 2011 5

It’s not the first time we have discussed a report from 1982 that covers arcade games – it seems that ’82 was the time the media really started to notice the craze (right before

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Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani shows off early game sketches

Shaggy June 24, 2010 0

Newsfeed 843 via I have to apologize for not getting to this earlier – I had see the link a day or two ago but I forgot to mention it. But better late than

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The wayback machine videos for today are…

Shaggy May 9, 2010 2

It’s Sunday so in lieu of news, we have videos to point out. I’m not sure why it seems like we’re getting a lot of videos of arcades from the early 80’s showing up

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Missing in Action: On the defense (tower defense and otherwise)

Shaggy December 17, 2009 7

It has been a while since I last wrote a “Missing In Action” article, where I cover a style of game that at one point in history was popular or common to find in

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The SuperAuction that came and went in Brockton, MA

Shaggy November 24, 2008 1

If you’re an arcade collector then one of things you always keep an eye out for are arcade auctions. They always can be a good place to find some cool games. If you live

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