I placed my Marble Madness machine on craigslist. But before it is gone, I made a video of me playing. Those are indeed my hairy arms thrashing away on that poor defenseless trackball.
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A wired article about a couple of college students trying to bring back to life Soviet era arcade games.
Last month, the four officially opened the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines in a Stalin-era bomb shelter under a university dormitory. Packed into two rooms are dozens of Soviet-made video game carcasses in various states of repair. Some work perfectly; others last for a few minutes, then fade. One common feature among them all is a lack of a high-score list.
Closer to home, an arcade graveyard near Hugo. I don’t know where precisely. Many of these games were seen at the Penny Arcade at the State Fair.
So this West St. Paul dude is our local representative for the X-box pac-man championship. Good luck! Wacka-Wacka!
Below are the links to an old PBS business program, showcasing Imagic when they were just getting off the ground. I little slice of life of the video game industry, just before the mid-80s video game crash. You get a sense that this frenzy over video games in the early 80s was very similar to the dot com boom and bust.
I received my copy of Adventure II for the Atari 5200. A homebrew sequel to Adventure for the Atari 2600. Essentially the same game. You are a yellow block on a quest to find the Gold Chalice and return it to the Seashore Kingdom’s Castle. Same dragons to avoid, some new fiends added as well. For instance, there is an evil troll who likes to steal stuff (replaces bat). I’ve only begun playing the game, but looks like a top notch sequel, that takes advantage of the extra power of the Atari 5200.
Only 250 cartridges were made. I’m guessing that there will be less than 100 left when the store starts selling them again. The Atari Age Store currently says “sold out” as I type, but that was so Albert could get caught up on orders. Better snarf one up when the store opens again. Here is the thread that announced that the game was shipping.
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