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When a game room becomes an arcade
While I don’t often post about game rooms I think this one is worthy enough for it as this guy has so many games that it’s more of an arcade than a game room.
Read More »Tron and Battlezone CG cabinets by Peter Hirschberg
This has been fairly slow week without a lot of news to post about but don’t worry, we’re still here. I’ll put this post into a ‘time waster’ category but a cool time waster
Read More »The Last Starfighter Arcade Final Version available (for PCs)
It’s no secret that Atari had planned on creating an arcade game based on the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter. They were the ones who created the graphics for the arcade game people gawked
Read More »Arcade Innovations
Kevin Williams has posted an interesting article over at SPoNG.com that discusses some of the innovations that the arcade industry brought to video games. From QWAKs! light-gun to Atari Footballs trackball, I, Robot’s 3D
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review – Liberator by Atari
Sorry for the delay again in the review – I am working on something to make the reviews more interesting but it’s taking longer than I had hoped. But for now here is another
Read More »Donkey Kong wants you to JUMP! MAMEJUMP!
This is the funniest thing I have come across in a while. Donkey Kong sings to Van Halen’s Jump while you see a plethora of arcade games that involve jumping (as well as plenty
Read More »Southern California Classic Collector's (SC3) Meeting on 5/12/07
Every time I hear about groups of arcade collectors coming together to play, it’s always far away from where I live. These events are always great fun though, allowing you to get together with
Read More »Ebay Listing Of The Week
Gravitar Released in 1982 by Atari, this game did not do particularly well, mainly because many found the game too hard. The object of the game is to destroy enemy planets to make space
Read More »Pro Keds Releases Arcade Series of Shoes
If you have ever glanced at your wardrobe and thought “Gee, I sure wish I could show people my love for Asteroids through my shoes!” then this is right up your alley. Of course
Read More »Out and About – Saturday Night
[In the second posting of our regular new feature] I thought it might be fun to take snaps of all the machines I come across on nights out. This is not to be confused with a venue review,
Read More »Want to buy an FEC?
In case you are not familiar with the term FEC, it stands for Family Entertainment Center. It’s the type of place that generally offers many fun activities from mini-golf to laser tag to rides
Read More »ebay listing of the week…..
Starting Price: £0.99p! End Time: 07-Apr-07 12:51:25 BST This game is generally not recognised as an outstanding game, however this has to be one of my all time most played games. Mainly because my local
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