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The American Classic Arcade Museum and the nostalgia behind classic arcade games

Shaggy August 6, 2010 1

Newsfeed 893 via This subject isn’t anything new but it’s always nice to see an article from a large news organization throwing a positive light onto arcade gaming. This article in the Christian Science

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More arcade goodness from PAX East (updated with Wil Wheaton)

Shaggy April 3, 2010 2

As I had mentioned a few days ago, we had some more pictures from the PAX East (Boston) event coming up and here they are, thanks to Adam Pfeifer. Most of these are of

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Action buttons – a classic arcade tribute sculpture

Shaggy March 31, 2010 0

Via When you think of sculptures, the likely thought to enter the mind is something carved out of stone. But that doesn’t always have to be the case, as we see here with this

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Peter Hirschberg's Luna City Arcade up for sale

Shaggy March 6, 2010 0

There are a lot of cool home arcades out there but few have attracted as much attention as Peter Hirschberg’s Luna City Arcade. He has built-up one of the finest collection of vector titles

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Classic Arcade 3D pixel art

Shaggy October 6, 2009 0

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)

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25 years and still standing – the Asteroids High Score

Shaggy November 14, 2008 0

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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Another review double feature: Chase HQ2 & 1942

Shaggy July 13, 2008 0

I’ve got another couple of reviews uploaded to the internet, this time Chase HQ2 by Taito and 1942 by Romstar/Capcom. I uploaded the CHQ2 video to Vimeo and 1942 to youtube for the time

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Location Review : Phoenix Arcade @ The Summit

SaraAB87 May 27, 2008 2

Here in Niagara Falls, NY there is a mall called The Summit and in addition to the Krow’s Nest with the bowling machines there is another arcade called Phoenix arcade. They have 2 storefronts

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