Defend the Arcade – With Playing Cards!
Let’s say it’s 1983. You’re at the arcade, about to drop your last quarter into your favorite game when everything shakes. The quarter slips from your fingers, rolls across the floor, out the open arcade door and stops on the sidewalk. You run...
Get Your Kicks From QIX By Michael Thomasson
The screen flickers “Your marker controlled with joystick. To draw stix press fast or slow. Claim areas by joining walls with stix.“ Or so the first three simple sentences of the original Qix attract mode boldly stated. It continues, “Scores based on area. Fast score...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: “Molo Ram! Prepare to meet Kali…in hell!”
There are hundreds and thousands of video games out there. And when you look at the list, it is almost a 50/50 split in the games that keep going and the games that have an end. Back in the 80’s though, finishing a game was not only a milestone in someones...
Kombat Kon at Galloping Ghost Arcade
On Saturday August 23,2017 the Galloping Ghost Arcade hosted it’s annual Mortal Kombat convention called the Kombat Kon! The event originated as Shang Tsungs Fight Night but after five years grew from being held at the arcade to a bigger venues. Now in its seventh...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: HE’S ON FIRE!!!
Ok, before this blog gets going, I have a disclaimer: I hate basketball!!!! There’s just no other way to say it. No disrespect to the professionals that make millions in the industry, but I just hate it. I hate the squeaking of the sneakers going back and...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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