Kermit and the ‘Wolf Whistling’

I didn’t know who Jeri Ellison was until last week when she started to show up in my friend suggest on Facebook. Jeri is a little bit of an electronics phenom and has photos of her storage unit filled with pinballs and a couple of arcade games. Good to know that the habit is not discriminatory in any way, although I can’t say in three years of collecting games I have run across too many female collectors.

Check out the video, it’s fun to see a glimpse into Owen’s lair, see his mannerisms in person and really get a better understanding of the breadth of his technical genius. Published just under a month ago, hopefully not too many of you have seen it yet. The Wolf Whistling piece was my favorite part, a sign of the times.

I poked fun at Atari’s personal robot a while back, and while the consumer uses seemed a little extravagant the technology appeared unquestionably futuristic. Even looking at this simple robot the rest of us feel a little silly looking at something that might be considered ‘tinkering’, but it out of the grasp of your average Joe.

I will be checking out more of Jeri’s light hearted videos, looks like she just posted one of a demonstration of exploding capacitors.

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Because there are so many classics in the this warehouse, collectors seem to remember this video of the walk through more predominantly than other videos out there.

Think you’ve got a better one? Submit a link to YouTube. I am sure there is a list existing somewhere, but who knows if that list will get as high in the search engines for collectors searching for ‘warehouse raids’, ‘arcade game warehouses’ or ‘warehouse raid videos’.

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Funspot is one of the few functioning arcades left in the United States, and some claim it is the world’s largest arcade of classic video games. Located in Weirs Beach, NH, I doubt I will ever take a vacation that far north and east, so watching the walk-through videos of this arcade are exciting on two levels.

The videos of Funspot arcade are extensive, at over 9 minutes each. In the few minutes I watched I didn’t see many “classic” arcade games by definition, but I am sure the classics are on the third level of the building, and I didn’t get a chance to watch that far. Whether you appreciate the earlier arcade games, the mid 90′s games, or today’s complex brand of interactive entertainment, these videos of Funspot should be enjoyable to all.

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Here is the video of the classic arcade tree in action. You can see that it is loaded up with some festival themed Pac-man imagry, but it has all of Pac-man’s old enemies, and they even move a little bit.

Here’s the static image of the tree.

Lots of users commented on how cool it would be to be able to play the Pac-man tree. Possibly I am sure, but complicated. It is awesome to see how much of a global force Pac-man is and how much that character line is recognized and appreciated. Wouldn’t it be cool if these guys in Madrid who made the Pac-man tree took some tips from my hometown lighting expert with the Trans Siberian Orchestra guy!

Some music a little more 8-Bit themed would be in order for the Pac-man tree, just as long as it didn’t keep repeating:)

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Saw this retro arcade video link posted in the Google Coin-Op groups. It’s a commercial for Chardon jeans, smacking of true 80′s design, cool at the very least for the girl that is rollerskating like life couldn’t get any more simple. The jean commercial is set in what looks like an arcade, I was not old enough at the time to know if this is a typical looking arcade or not. Oh yeah, and Larry Bird is also in the commercial.

The game of choice in the commercial is Stern’s Berzerk, and it looks as though the marquee doesn’t have any flaking just yet:)

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More ludicrous than anything else, I think that building the largest coin-operated machine in theory is pretty cool, but in reality it just looks stupid. You have to stand on a stool to play it, with hand sized buttons and a screen so large your retnas are fried before you can say “Sammy Davis Junior only got one eye.”

The World’s Largest Arcade Machine measures 14 feet tall, has a 75 inch screen, weighs 1300 pounds and I think in the video they say it’s 9 feet wide. What a colossal waste of space. They have a tiny little motherboard in it that plays 150 games and the style arcade game makes most of us collectors, with a taste for true art, die a little inside. The World’s Largest Arcade Machine is fashioned after the popular Mame machines of today, with the artless sides, and the generic lightning bolt, fire storm, or other combination of black veneer details that makes us think, “Big black waste of space anyone?”

It’s like all of the entertainment value of a season of American Idol, 1 minute stretched out to make a year of shows and you wonder where the time went. My favorite part was the real “Coins”, and the fact that although the largest game ever takes up more space than your guest room, the machine isn’t capable of freeplay.

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