Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Tony Temple

by Todd Friedman | Apr 23, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Interviews

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Tony Temple, who is displayed on card number 134, from the Superstars of 2011.  Tony is also on trading card number 1757.  Tony is one of the United Kingdom’s foremost classic gaming champions, famous for his world record play...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Gil Velez

by Todd Friedman | Apr 14, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Arcade, Interviews

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Gil Velez who is displayed on card number 3420, from the Superstars of 2020 Collection.  Gil is also featured on card 3421. In 2016 Gil founded a Facebook group called “Arcade Game Repair Help Group”. This group offers real...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Carl Klitzke

by Todd Friedman | Apr 4, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Arcade, Interviews

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Carl Klitzke who currently is displayed on card number 3975, from the Superstars of 2021 Collection.  Carl is a masterful arcade game and pinball technician. Anything you need he can fix. He worked on his very first pinball...

The Video Game History Foundation – by Todd Friedman

by Todd Friedman | Mar 29, 2022 | 2010s, 2020s, Interviews, Other Magazines Preview

At one time or another, I am sure everyone thought about saving their magazines to show their grand- children one day. Not everyone had the drive or the technology to keep those copies and ended up donating them or selling them to other collectors. There is a place...

RetroMags – by Todd Friedman

by Todd Friedman | Mar 27, 2022 | 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Interviews, Magazine Preview

Retromags is an online database and community that preserves retro magazines and makes them available to the public. This project is a non-for profit and is funded by the gamers. Retromags is a 100% community supported site and project, what means they rely on their...

Roger Sharpe – by Michael Thomasson

by Michael Thomasson | Mar 25, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Interviews, Pinball

Roger Sharpe is all about pinball. He’s most famous for being the “man that saved pinball” after he successfully convinced the New York City Council to legalize the game after demonstrating that pinball was not a game of chance, but instead a game of skill. Roger has...