Standing Sega Pengo Marquee

Since 2005, there has been a vector file version of the standing Sega Pengo marquee on Arcade Art Library (localarcade.com). The author is “rockworm”, and I don’t recognize that name on any other forum. Right away, I question the accuracy of the file. “Rockworm” hasn’t added another file over the last two years, so it is hard to know if he just printed out a copy on an inkjet and therefore the Pengo artwork didn’t have to be exact, or what the final use was. So …

Portrait Illustrations

The last three months of 2007 have been possibly the busiest in my life. I was balancing studying for the GMAT an hour, to an hour and a half a night, plus, I was touching up nearly 900 slides from my childhood for a gift to my parents, and…I was also approached to do portrait illustrations for my sister of her husband’s niece and nephew for a Christmas gift.

The illustrations didn’t get finished until December 24th, but they did get done. I was happy with portions of them, …

Sega Pengo Bezel Vectoring Finished!

I thought for sure over Christmas break I would be able to crank through vectorizing one piece of Pengo artwork per day, and by the end I would have every single piece of Pengo artwork in a nice Illustrator file ready for reproductions. Time for working on classic arcade artwork was not easy to come by however.

I did manage to finish vectorizing the Pengo bezel….for now. I haven’t included the dot pattern, and I also still need to scan in the inner portions of the bezel that fold …

Sinistar CPO’s and HUO Sinistar

Today is the day of Williams Sinistar.

Surfing Klov there was a mention that Quarter Arcade is doing reproduction artwork for William’s Sinistar control panel overlays. Here are the photos;

I emailed Anthony at Quarter Arcade, and he was nice enough to let me …

Sega Pengo Bezel Vector Progress 1

Over the past two nights I have made some progress vectorizing the Pengo Bezel for reproductions. Here is an image of the vector progress so far;

As you can see, I pretty much have the background ice Pengo landscape finished. The artwork is pretty simple, but there is a halftone pattern over the blue to white gradient that I haven’t done yet. All that is left now is to trace the Sno-Bees and Pengo himself. I would imagine …

Dark Knight IMAX Prologue Leaked

Short and sweet, I am about 14 hours late to the punch, but I thought I would post the Dark Knight IMAX Prologue here if you have seen it yet.

Seeing the prologue like this took a lot out of it for me. It was hard to follow what was going on with the Joker’s henchmen and the action, or really get a sense for how sinister Joker really is when he takes off the mask.

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Agent X / Cloak Dagger Jacket

Yesterday I got an interesting email from another collector interested in Agent X information. His name is Alan, and he was looking for photos of an Agent X machine.

After an email exchange, he told me that he knew Dave Comstock, who was the Atari programmer that was supposed to port Cloak and Dagger over to the 5200. Dave Comstock owns one of the original Agent X machines, from the limited run that were produced. (That information is readily available on the internet.) Alan also mentioned that …