I’ve been nostalgic lately about arcades. It just kills me that they are disappearing left and right. All of my childhood hangouts are gone. After searching for stories on the subject, I located this video that is pretty cool called Arcade ‘84. The CinemArcade Web site describes it below:
Arcade ‘84 is my attempt at recreating […]
I recently took a drive through my old stomping grounds in Chicago. I looked for places familiar to me. I got a little misty eyed as I drove looking for a place I could walk into that I used to frequent as a kid. It soon became evident though, that all of them have closed. […]
I’ve been really into classic gaming lately and through my searches, I came across the documentary King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. It’s about the fight between Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell for the highest recorded score on Donkey Kong. What started out for me as a trip down memory lane to my childhood […]
I could show you a chart with all of the technical specs for the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3. I could show you a comparison of the graphics for each system. Neither of those things matter though. The only thing that matters is the games. Which system has the best games? Right now, the […]
Pac-man, Galaga, Street Figther II. These video games represent everything that was great about the traditional video arcade. I wanted to experience a traditional arcade once again upon my recent visit to Chicago only to find that the arcade I loved as a teen is now gone. It was the last one left of the […]
I recently broke out some of my old video game systems and started playing them again. I enjoyed a little Contra and RC-Pro-AM. I even played Time Pilot on my old ColecoVision. After a while, I began to realize that the gameplay was still addicting even when compared with video games of today. I wanted […]
