by Old School Gamer | Mar 27, 2018 | 1980s, Arcade, Magazine Preview
This piece originally appeared in the Video Game Collector Magazine but has been updated and added to with more current information. Q: What were you into when you were growing up? SW: I was really into drawing. I was always drawing as a kid. I’d make my own baseball...
by Old School Gamer | Mar 23, 2018 | 1980s, Arcade, Magazine Preview
This piece originally appeared in the Video Game Collector Magazine, but has been updated and added to with more current information including from an interview at Galaxy of Games in Ottumwa, Iowa. Q: The film King of Kong made you a celebrity in even more people’s...
by Todd Friedman | Mar 20, 2018 | 1980s, Arcade, Events, Magazine Preview
On October 8, 1983, Walter Day of Twin Galaxies had a vision. He dreamt of having a Video Game Hall ofFameinOttumwa,Iowa. Heknew this would be the perfect place to host the event being that Ottumwa, Iowa was crowned the Video Game Capital of the world one year before....
by Walter Day | Mar 13, 2018 | Arcade, Events, Magazine Preview
Twin Galaxies is the world authority on player rankings, gaming statistics, and championship tournaments, with pinball statistics dating from the 1930s and video game statistics from the early 1980s. As the electronic gaming indus- try’s premiere statistician, Twin...
by Michael Thomasson | Mar 11, 2018 | Arcade, Columns, Magazine Preview
When Donkey Kong’s cut-scene animation inquires, “HOW HIGH CAN YOU GET?,” it isn’t referring to recreational drug use, but to how many meters you can climb in the construction site that is the setting of the game. However, if you thought that a green leafy plant...
by Old School Gamer | Mar 6, 2018 | Arcade, Columns, Magazine Preview
Old School Baby. That’s what Tim called me when he walked into A Gamers Paradise and saw the magazine and my embroidered shirt that I was wearing for the magazine. My potential interview with Tim Arnold the operator of The Pinball Hall of Fame was off to an...