Nolan Bushnell laid ground breaking work for the 80’s show Small Wonder?
Lighting must strike multiple times. Or that must have been the thought for any venture capitalists that invested in Nolan Bushnell’s personal home robot start-up. Who knows, maybe he funded it all himself, but in retrospect it is hard to look at this article seriously.
A small writeup in the November issue of Joystik 1983, I don’t think that this humorous read could be any more dated; (more…)
Warlords Cocktail Glass Reproductions at Phoenix Arcade comming soon?
Darin Jacobs is currently polling interest from arcade collectors to see what interest there would be in doing some Warlords cocktail glass artwork reproductions. According to published documents online, 1253 Warlords cocktails were produced. However, they are fairly hard to come by and there is a good chance the average reader has never even heard of Warlords.
I admit, I’m a big gushy convert but this is just an amazingly fun game. Never played it? I’ve included a screen shot and an animation showing you what it’s like. Try it out, you might want to find a Warlords and then you might want to get on the reproduction list 😉 (more…)
Rare Atari Red Baron Prototype Changes Hands
It’s not news that there were a couple of Red Baron prototypes that were made before Atari settled on converting old Battlezones for their primary run of this vector game. However, doing a general search turns up little information on the Red Baron prototype beyond the fact that there have been about three spotted at one time or another.
One of those just changed hands earlier this month, into the welcoming arms of Francis Mariani at Ataricade. (more…)
Troy Akey’s NIB Atari Football
It’s been just about a month since Troy Akey’s party in Chicago. Like everyone else, I was blown away by his collection of immaculate games. There was one game in particular that was most noteworthy to me, his NIB (New In Box) Atari Football. If you don’t already know, Troy got his Atari Football from that old abandoned Time Travel warehouse in Canada. (more…)
Value of Atari Cyberstorm Prototype?
I received a message from an ex-wife of a former Atari employee out west who claims that she has an Atari prototype called Cyberstorm. Apparently her husband used to work for Atari and she is trying to figure out how much the game is worth and is trying to sell it. (more…)
Artwork Engraved Arcade Keychains
Brian Jones (Oleszak Creative) has a new pet project. He is fabricating aluminum keychains from raw materials and then laser engraving them with original arcade game artwork! How cool is that? (more…)
Arcade Links for 2008-04-14
- Tempting. Atari Batman Arcade Game Kentucky Craigslist – Working $450! Can’t pay so much. Will I lose out forever? http://snipr.com/24czy #
- Awesome Star Wars artwork – Via Digg – http://www.filedropper.com/displayimages/19f69213e30213d74672f8c5df2c776f.jpg #
- Quite a roadtrip. From Belgium to the UK for two Return of the Jedi cabinets – http://snipr.com/24e52 #
- Ordering parts for restoring Midway coin doors could be difficult – http://snipr.com/24e81 #
- Custom Rock Band drum kit. I’m late to the game, saw Rock Band 1st time this weekend modding obvious progression – http://snipr.com/24e8a #
- History of and developers who worked on Atari’s Battlezone by Brian Deuel – http://snipr.com/24eor #
- If you haven’t read it before, the History of how Atari Games was founded – http://snipr.com/24eqw #
- New Hulk Movie Poster online – http://www.movieweb.com/news/08/28008.php – Ok concept, feel like the logo treatment could be more impactful #
- Free Mad Planets in Detroit on Craigslist –
http://snipr.com/24agi – Looks like someone picked up a great free arcade game # - Of all of the subjects related to business and economics, I am very interested in free trade policy, which is related to "The World Is Flat" #
- More new Iron Man footage, Tony Stark learning to fly – http://snipr.com/24baf #
- Williams Moon Patrol with two other games – $400 Ada / Grand Rapids Michigan.
http://snipr.com/246kv # - Old Arcade Game Commercials on You Tube – McDonalds Atari Systems, Dig Dug (Seen this) –
http://snipr.com/247ki # - New update on Rotheblog.com about Donkey Kong 2 artwork progress from This Old Game hopefully coming today. #
- Play Mame head to head against an original Upright Atari Asteroids? – Could be a possibility –
http://snipr.com/247nc # - Exidy Who Dunit Chicago Craigslist w/Capcom game for $200 – http://snipr.com/247yb – Klov listing for Who Dunit –
http://snipr.com/247yg # - Like Arcade Game Locations website, site brought to my attention today pinball locations – http://snipr.com/248ec – Not a good resource IMO #
- Met Derek thru Diigo Social Bookmarking, my arcade links group – Cool arcad remixed music! – MySpace Retar-D2 – http://snipr.com/248ir #
