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TRON Legacy viral campaign continues the arcade love with new Encom Arcade Postcards
There is one movie coming out this year which is giving arcades plenty of attention and that is TRON Legacy. While it has been a little while since the last bit of viral marketing took place (with a live event unveiling Space Paranoids Online), a part of the campaign has taken place with a »
New video game exhibit opening at the Strong National Museum of Play in November
Newsfeed 836 via We have covered the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY before. They are certainly a kind of museum gamers can get behind as they are home to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games. Their store house holds over 20,000 gaming items, including arcades in huge numbers, »
The obligatory TRON Legacy trailer post
Obligatory as I have been pointing out the arcade related stuff that has been leaked recently from the upcoming movie. As you can see, Flynn’s isn’t the movie for very long although it wasn’t in the original movie for very long either but now that we have a high-def look, you can see the »
Disney to build a Flynn's Arcade at Tomorrow Land; new pics of Flynn's Arcade in TRON Legacy
It seems that news on the new Tron: Legacy movie is rolling out every day this week as part of a build-up to the official trailer release tomorrow and while we are not a movie blog which focuses on covering that, there has been some arcade stuff spiced throughout this. As you can see »
Viral marketing for TRON Legacy continues to give some love to arcades
I’ve always been a big fan of Tron so when it comes to developments of what is going on with the new TRON Legacy movie that comes out in December, I’m intently keeping tabs on what’s going on as Disney runs a pretty cool viral marketing campaign for it. We saw it begin with »
Shooting Match by Yoony Electronics
Via South Korea is really starting to belt out the military style shooting games, as you can see here with the new Shooting Match by Yoony Electronics. We weren’t sent much information about this and I can’t find a website for Yoony at the moment but it looks like it’s another airsoft shooter or »
Last batch of IAAPA 2009 vids – Panic Museum, Silver Strike Live, Make Your Own Dog Tags, Animatronics
I’ve finally uploaded all of the IAAPA videos that I took and while I probably should have got a few more, I hope that everyone has enjoyed what I did put online. I know a couple of the videos have terrible sound and I apologize for that – the camera I was using was »
Rifftrax derezzes TRON
Label this under the “somewhat related to arcade games” category but Rifftrax – which is helmed by three former cast members of the hysterically funny show Mystery Science Theater 3000 – has released a rifftrak for the beloved movie which features plenty of concepts gleaned from arcade games, TRON. What is Rifftrax? This link »
Peter Hirschberg interviews Tron cabinet designer George Gomez
If you’re a fan of classic arcade gaming you should find this interesting. Peter Hirschberg, the owner of the famous Luna City Arcade which is perhaps the finest home collection of arcades we’ve ever seen, has done a short interview with the designer of the original Tron cabinet, George Gomez. If you aren’t familiar »
Shaggy's Review: Rip Off by Cinematronics
As a quick note you have probably noticed that I have not been able to keep up with my weekly review format so I am just going to do reviews when I really have the time to sit down and write as when I do reviews I like to cover everything I can. This »
Retronauts Talk Street Fighter
I am a massive videogame podcast listener and one of my favourites is 1UP’s Retronauts. This week I was pleasantly surprised that thier latest episode was all about the Street Fighter series which I highly recommend. Everything is talked about, from the fantastic Alpha series and the upcoming SF4 to the not so fantastic Street Fighter »
Stern Still Going Strong
The New York Times published a story that profiled small, entrepreneurial companies that are/have made changes to adapt to changing times and markets. One of these companies was the one and only Stern Pinball, read on….. Take Gary Stern, a second-generation pinball entrepreneur. In the early 1990s, about five companies in the United »
