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New Pinball Arcade Opens in Fort Collins, CO – Pinball Jones
Opening classic arcades full of “Golden Age” arcade games has certainly been a thing for a while now but I’ve been noticing lately another trend – that of opening locations where the primary focus
Read More »The Video Fever circa 1982
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
Read More »Classic Game Room tackles classic arcade games
(Thanks to IGO for the tip) The Classic Game Room is a large series of video reviews found on Youtube where these guys review games for any game system they can get their hands-on.
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Hanging out at the arcade, 80′s style
(Pic by Conrado4; and Xybots is such an awesome game) I saw this on Kotaku this morning about a set of pictures on Flickr.com entitled “Growing Up In Arcades: 1979-1989“. I have a slightly
Read More »Arcade Games I Want To Play Some Day (On Real Hardware)
Well there’s been a drought of arcade news lately and because of that, I’ve been thinking of something else to write about in the meantime. So today I’ve decided to write a little bit
Read More »Videos of the American Classic Arcade Museum Room at PAX East 2011
As I mentioned in the previous post, among the arcade love at PAX East, was a room dedicated to nothing but great classic games, provided by the American Classic Arcade Museum (ACAM). Thanks to
Read More »The Soviet Arcade Museum in greater detail
Newsfeed 918 via Back in June 2009 a story swarmed the internet of the creation of “The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games“. These games from the 70′s and early 80′s were completely unknown in
Read More »The Arcade Hunters visit Richie Knucklez
It may be impossible to visit all of the arcades that are out there but at least thanks to the wonderful world of the internet we can get in-depth videos of the locations that
Read More »Classic Arcade 3D pixel art
In the world of computer graphics, one idea that is starting to gain a lot of attention (even though the concept has been around for quite a while with some games using the technology)
Read More »The making of Defender
Defender is a well-known arcade classic and if you have ever wondered about some of the details involved in how the game came about, one site has interviewed Eugene Jarvis to get the rundown
Read More »If Danger Zone were made today
If we take a trip on the wayback machine to 1986, the industry crash has begun to pass and while it hurt arcades, companies were still churning out a lot of games and sometimes
Read More »Ed Logg recounts how Asteroids was made
A lot of classic games made their mark on our culture back in the 80′s but of those, Asteroids is certainly one of the top contenders for it’s reach and influence in gaming. I
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