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Written By:  on November 17, 2009 7 Comments
Super rare Atari game sell for over 5k

Recently news broke about a rare Atari game selling for over 5k, actually $5,250 to be exact.  So what game made in the 80’s could be worth over 5k?  Well it was a game that was only sold in religious stores, and that game is called ‘The Music Machine’.

The Atari 2600 game was merely bought [...]

Written By:  on September 22, 2009 No Comment

Here is a rough trailer for a pinball documentary title ‘Bang Back: The Pinball Movie’, which is about the best pinball player of all time Rick Stetta.  This movie looks pretty cool and interesting, and hopefully there will be more information about when the film will come out.  

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Written By:  on September 5, 2009 2 Comments
Galaga world record is broken ‘down under’

An Australian man by the name of Phil Day has broken the world record for the 1981 arcade game ‘Galaga’. Day didn’t just beat the record he actually destroyed it with a score of 3.44 million, the old record was 2.7 million.

The record was set on the machine in the back room of his cottage, and [...]

Written By:  on August 31, 2009 No Comment
Pinball World Championships…..a visual tour

Over 2,000 pinball players made a pilgrimage to a small town outside Pittsburgh, PA. this August for the 4 day event of the Pinball World Championships.

If it weren’t for all the cars outside, you would never even think something this cool was happening inside the giant 30,000 sq. ft. warehouse building.

A lot of great players and machines [...]

Written By:  on July 24, 2009 14 Comments

This is so awesome, there seems to be a secret room inside Flynn’s Arcade at Comic-Con.  The neon sign flickers and the secret door opens, then Daft Punk starts to play louder and louder, its just so Epic!!!!! And there it is, the new Light Cycle from ‘TRON 2.0′ wow its so cool.  This such [...]

Written By:  on July 22, 2009 23 Comments

If you have an iPhone then you can take your Arcade games with you wherever you go.  It actually looks really good, and controls seem pretty good too,  well at least as good as it can play on a phone.  Check out this video of the Simpsons arcade game being run on an iPhone 3Gs.

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Written By:  on July 2, 2009 No Comment
Videotopia

Is the ultimate arcade at the Strong National Museum of Play, in Rochester NY.  Videotopia is an exhibit that will run until November 1, 2009.  

There are so many cool titles to check out at the exhibit, and if I was in driving distance I would be there in a heartbeat .  There are [...]

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