Archive for April, 2008
New Space Duel Sideart Progress
Quick post today with more progress on the Atari Space Duel sideart, a huge ship has been vectorized. Zorg has kept at this project, my guess would be that in about a month and a half we should see a finished product.
Cheyenne Sideart Scan Arrives!
On Saturday I got a disk in the mail of the 600DPI scan of the NOS Cheyenne sideart that will be reproduced by This Old Game. There has been a lot of talk about this rare NOS piece of Exidy artwork at the Klov forums and who can make the most accurate reproductions. (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 #
Spelman Barcade Party Indianapolis
This weekend, fellow arcade collector Robert / Brad Spelman (Madocowain) unveiled his brand new basement bar in style an arcade gaming party. Drinks were flowing, off key singing with Rock Band was plentiful, and the new arrangement of Brad’s awesome game collection saw a lot of play, especially the little ones played the upright games which was cool to see. (more…)
Play Pinball in Indianapolis, Indiana
Looking for locations around Indianapolis where you can play pinball? With my readers help, I am going to start listing pinball machines in and around Indianapolis. I don’t come across many in the wild on my day to day travels, but hopefully some of my visitors can submit locations in Indianapolis where you can play pinballs. (more…)
Donkey Kong 2 Marquee Films
For the legion of you out there who are really excited about Donkey Kong 2 and the complete “Make Your Own” artwork package being offered by This Old Game, here is a look at some of the initial films for the printing progress for the marquee. (more…)
Homestar Runner, Space Invaders on Scrubs, Mappy Marquees Running Low
- Awesome JD Turk Space Invaders scene on new Scrubs right now! #
- Strong Bad coming to WiiWare! Gotta love Homestar Runner & a creator of something truly strange and original –
http://snipr.com/2435l # - Phoenix Arcade Mappy Marquee B stock qtys low 6 left Price shipped = $65 through April 14th before Darin’s move – http://snipr.com/2442m #
- Craigslist Black Widow Kentucky – Open to offers, won’t power up – http://louisville.craigslist.org/bar/636536331.html #
- What is a vectrex overlay? Vectrex was a console gaming system – http://tinyurl.com/5galeu #
- Talk @ Atari Age about Agent X Reproduction artwork – http://tinyurl.com/5sy8k2 #
- A website dedicated to the many Artists of Atari – Arcade and consoles would be an awesome resource – http://tinyurl.com/5mn97u #
- Potentially good deal – Craigslist Chicago – Warlords Cocktail – $450 – If you’re a fan #
- Warlords Cocktail Link – http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/tag/636130822.html #
- 🙂 Nevermind – Jeff got Chicago Warlords Cocktail – Flippin time – http://tinyurl.com/423ojc #
- Had I done some research, Digsby has Twitter status built in with character count, including separate area for links, probably for Tiny Urls #
- New arcade game poll added. Choose between four classic games, which is your favorite. #
- 48-in-1 classic arcade game boards – $90 – Quite a deal –
http://snipr.com/240lp # - What is the deal? Another close Cosmic Avenger for sale – Auction – Pinball at the Zoo Kalamazoo, April 18-19 2008 – http://snipr.com/240sg #
- Gran Trak 10 – Chicago Craigslist $50 – Works – Good deal for a classic – #
- Gran Trak Link –
http://snipr.com/2422z – Gran Trak Info at Klov –
http://snipr.com/24231 # - One of the rarest classic arcade games ever on ebay – Computer Space – $3,800 – http://tinyurl.com/5nq3mh #
- Artwork Proof for Aladdin Pac-man Lunch Box from 1982 off ebay – http://tinyurl.com/5dkbye #
- Pinball collector in Cincinnati selling some games – http://tinyurl.com/5mmdzg?#03a5a556f2851ac7 #
- Possible rare Puckman marquee steal on ebay – http://tinyurl.com/664pcb #
- Spy Hunter reproduction sideart was made – by Arcade Renovations – Offset not silkscreened, but still reproduced #
- Spy Hunter reproduction art link – http://tinyurl.com/6go3js?#ad828a378d64aaae #
- New Space Invader Tshirt Design – Little too simplistic for me – http://tinyurl.com/6e7ayq #
- ROFL LOL Tron Guy – http://www.tronguy.net/ #
- I’ve seen my share of people dressing up at comic conventions, but check out the Tron guy head shot. So serious. So funny. #
