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Newsbytes: SFGE 2022; New Asteroids Arcade Game; TRON’s 40th & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post for the weekend that curates news from around the arcade & pinball world to for your reading pleasure. Let’s get to it: Southern Fried Gaming Expo 2022 Is Underway
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Newsbytes: Japan Arcades Update; Deeproot Pinball Auction; Street Fighter 6 & House of the Dead Remake; More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news from around the arcade & pinball world. Stay tuned next week for Amusement Expo 2022 – while I don’t expect a deluge of new-new games appearing there,
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Newsbytes: Big Buck 2018 World Championships; Pump It Up 20th; Rhythm Game News & More
Hello fellow Heroes, I hope that you’ve had a great week. Today’s Newsbytes is heavy on the videos, so if those are your thing, you should enjoy this post. Before we get to that,
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‘Roids Aiming For A Limited Arcade Release This Summer
(Thanks to commentor Gus for alerting us to this) It’s a good time to be a fan of late 70s/early 80s Atari arcade titles. First we had the revelation a short while ago of
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Atari’s Asteroids, Centipede and Missile Command To Become Board Games
If you were a child of the late 70s or early 80s then you very well might have come across board games based upon arcade games. The likes of Berzerk, Defender, Frogger, Pac-Man Popeye and
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Spacewar! Exhibit Opens At The Museum of the Moving Image In Astoria, NY
(Image above by Daniel Love, from the Exhibit website) As the year comes down to its final days, news in this sector tends to slow down as companies tend to close their doors for
Read More »Asteroids High Score World record broken
While we don’t report about every single world record that is broken on here, occasionally there are ones which are broken which are just too impressive to pass by. I heard about this on
Read More »Panel discussion with ex-Atari alumni at California Extreme 09
One thing I don’t think that I will ever tire of is getting into the history of the game industry, particularly that involving the arcade side of things. On one side I think it’s
Read More »Time to cringe, Asteroids to be made into a feature film
When Hollywood studios set their sights on adapting a video game into a film, you sadly have to worry about how badly the game will be butchered on screen. Hollywood has a terrible track
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
Read More »Asteroids Watch
From the genius that brought you the Pong watch comes this rather cool asteroids time piece. Video after the break. Please note; game is not playable…… DAMN! [via Oh Gizmo] [Discuss on the Forum
Read More »25 years and still standing – the Asteroids High Score
I’m sorry I missed this one yesterday but being a day late doesn’t hurt. Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of Scott Safran setting the still unbroken high score record on Atari’s Asteroids, setting the
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