W hen the Old School Arcade Magazine started, I was brought in to review products available to the consumer. I was able to review a reboot of the Nintendo Entertainment System and was extremely pleased with the product from another distributor. You can imagine my...
With the arcade machines, one of my most favorite parts is the marquees. Besides the monitor and graphics, the marquee is the sign to attract you to the glowing light. There are some people that collect the marquees, but the price of them can range from $5 up to...
It may be difficult to imagine for someone who wasn’t there at the time – or heck, even someone who was – but following its North American arcade release by Midway Games on October 26th, 1980, Pac- Man became huge. Like, stupidly huge. One could draw comparisons to...
So two weeks ago, I was honored to be able to go top the Midwest Gaming Classic in Wisconsin. This was my very first and definitely not my last video game convention. This was unlike any other type of convention that I have been to. This was actually one...
I am a person that loves video games, hands down. In case you didn’t know that. But my all time dream and love is to own my own pinball machine. Problem is, they are big and expensive. And there really isn’t an alternative to having one…. or is...