Arcade Expo Press Event Part 2
If you missed part 1 the Video Game post from Monday click HERE There was so much to take in during the Arcade Expo press event that it was too much to do one huge post.
If you missed part 1 the Video Game post from Monday click HERE There was so much to take in during the Arcade Expo press event that it was too much to do one huge post.
UPDATED 1/7/14 Part 2 that covers the Pinball Machines is now posted HERE I was fortunate enough today to get an early look at the Arcade Expo in Banning California that will be held on January 16-18 2015.
Last week was the fall get together for the SC3 (Southern California Classic Collectors) group that is dedicated to preserving and sharing classic home and arcade games for members to enjoy and play.
Sorry it took nearly a week to get the rest of the photos up from last weeks E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Last Saturday night (4/26) The Last Arcade on the Planet (See my review here) and Southern California Classic Collectors (SC3) joined forces to celebrate classic games for both the home systems and arcade games.
When people think of handheld gaming their first thought is Nintendo but while they do pretty much own the handheld gaming market it might not have happened if it wasn’t for a little company named Milton Bradley and the first handheld system with changeable cartridge games Microvision.
I am always on the lookout for arcades. There are so few around now that going to one is like taking a step back in time to when I visited local Los Angeles and Orange County arcades in the 1980’s and 1990’s before the implosion of the market in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.
UPDATED: (4/30/14) I have been back to The Last Arcade on the Planet twice from when this original story was written and Juan has done a great job of fixing the minor issues that I had with some of the machines and he has added a few new games to the mix.
On the eve of the next generation of video game systems PS4 and XBox One, I find it ironic that you can talk to most video gamers and at some point you almost always start talking about playing games on older systems.
Capcom and Disney have teamed up to bring back a blast from the past by remastering the beloved 1989 NES game DuckTales.
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