Category: Arcade News
Jamie Lendino has published his new book, Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games. The book tells the history of the Arcade game industry since the inception of electromechanical machines from the early 20th century until its crash and rebirth.
Audio and podcast page to this episode: http://scene.world/hagenkrentz Hagen Krentz is a man who knows mechanical pinball machines a lot. He is also a co-founder of the For Amusement Arcade & Pinball Museum in Seligenstadt, Germany.Furthermore, he also used to work for the movie industry in the 90s. Join AJ and Joerg as they listen to the tales and stories…
After successfully producing the book Atari: A visual Story, Darren Doyle just launched a new Kickstarter campaign, this time around covering arcade games. Coin-Op: The Arcade Guide promises to be a visually rich guide for arcade classics Chase h.q., Outrun, Galaga, R-Type II and many more games that cost us so many of our hard-earned money! The book will be…
The Digital Retro Park is one of the premier museums of digital culture. Falk Heinzelmann and Stefan Pitsch are the guys who started it all, and they’ve taken some time to talk to AJ and Joerg about the museum, as well as take us on a virtual tour while we’re all stuck at home! (interview starts at 10:05) https://scene.world/drp
Has it really been forty years since Pac-Man first showed up? My, how time flies when you’re having fun (at the arcade). In honor of this milestone, another icon of the arcade era has returned. In 1981, during the height of the video arcade revolution, Bucker & Garcia released the now-iconic single Pac-Man Fever. The song was followed by a…
I believe everybody, even outside of the ZX Spectrum community, knows about Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD), a game engine that lets you create professional-looking games for the Speccy and Amstrad CPC. Not long ago the Dragon and CoCo community were blessed by a converter tool that helped to bring nothing less than 219 games made with AGD to…
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines is a Russian private institution that has the objective of keeping a collection of arcade game machines in working condition in a permanent exhibit in Moscow where the visitors can not only see them but also interact and play with the more than 200 machines. As part of the ticket, the visitor receives a…
Following last year’s launch of the 1/4 scale replica of the original PAC-MAN arcade cabinet, Numskull Designs has announced that it will once again team up with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment to release Galaga as the second installment in its Quarter Arcade range. Generally considered as one of the world’s most innovative arcade shooters from the early 1980s, the official fully…
Parisoft has released a port of Berzek for the Nintendo Entertainment System and it is available for purchase on itch.io. Berzek is an arcade game released in 1980 by Stern and later ported to the Atari 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. It was one of the first games to dynamically generate mazes and have synthesized voices. I actually remember it was…
Valerio Cannone is a hardware developer known for repairing vintage arcade machines in his spare time. Valerio shares some of his knowledge with Joerg, and gives us some insight into his history, what drives him, and why keeping vintage arcade machines functional is important in the 21st century. (Interview begins at 8:40)
