Sega Pengo Pushing Marquee Vectors Complete

This is actually old, old news. Just before Christmas of last year I had finished scanning both versions of the Pengo marquee and posted them on Rotheblog. Around that time I had met and teamed up with another collector interested in seeing this artwork reproduced. I sent him the marquee scan and in about two weeks he sent me a completed vector file in Illustrator!

Atari Football XO Artwork Update

I spent my weekend scanning and vectorizing the Atari Football artwork, among other things. Here are some images of the composite Football player scan and a screen showing the artwork traced to date.

Rotheblog hits 10,000 visitors!

Just a short, exciting note tonight. According to Google Analytics, Rotheblog has hit 10,000 unique visitors over the past month! I was looking to hit this first benchmark around the end of May 2008, but I exceeded my own projections.

Arcade Gameroom Decorations

Got a comment last nice on one of my Pengo high score posts from a guy named Dave who runs a website called BrickPlayer. He wanted to show me some of his wall mountable arcade character art made out of flat legos, in this instance a mosaic of Pengo and a Sno-Bee with some Ice Blocks. Pretty simple idea, I checked out the website but I didn’t see a section to buy a kit just yet, and that might be good. I am not sure that this artwork for arcade gameroom decoration is a fully realized concept.

QuarterArcade.com Warehouse Buy Update – Pinball Photos

Last week Rotheblog was lucky enough to break the news about QuarterArcade.com’s Warehouse find in PA filled with 100 plus arcade games and pinball machines. Today I’ve got an update showing the inside of the warehouse with 12 photos of the pinball machines. I need some help identifying them, so please, leave a comment.

Replacing Crazy Climber joysticks Part 2

Part 2 of a 2 part article by Chris Moore

As you may remember, in part one of the Crazy Climber joystick tutorial we detailed how to take a Sanwa JLF-TP-8T 4/8 way adjustable joystick and mount it to your control panel. Once you get to the end of this second part Chris even mentions where you can get Crazy Climber overlay artwork to make your game look amazing.

Visual definition of ‘bleeds’ – arcade artwork

A handful of arcade game collectors possess some graphic design knowledge and understand the basic theory of reproducing cabinet artwork; scan the artwork, stitch it in Photoshop, and then trace the vector lines and shapes in Illustrator. But not too many know about one of the most important details of reproduction artwork preparation – including the step to add bleeds to your shapes to compensate for small shifts in registration. Don’t understand how bleeds work? That is what we’re going to illustrate in this post.