Well over a year ago, I wrote about Nintendo’s Sky Skipper arcade game, after UK collector Alex Crowley found an original PCB game board during an arcade raid. If you’re new to this topic, do take 5 minutes to familiarise yourself with the story up to that point here. In short: Alex discovered a Nintendo…
Cosmic Guerilla Restoration 1
I picked up this glorious looking cabinet last year. It was an eBay purchase and I was surprised that I even won it. I threw in a bid that I was prepared to pay, and to my surprise, no one outbid me. You can read more about the pick up here. As with most of…
Arcade Club: Europe’s largest Classic Arcade!
I’m not sure how clear it is from the blog, but for the record, I live in the United Kingdom. Given that much of the arcade Golden Age was centered around the USA, we were very much the poorer cousins of arcade related activity both back in the 80s and indeed today. Many arcade releases…
Atari Coin-Op: Classic Arcade Marketing
This week, I thought it would be interesting to look at Atari Coin-Operated Division’s B2B marketing efforts in the early 80s. By ‘B2B’ I mean the way in which they marketed their coin operated activities to the other businesses they wanted to foster relationships with; namely operators and distributors of their arcade games. It was…
Play Blackpool: 2017 Arcade Expo Review
The Play Expo Events are now a regular fixture of the retro gaming calendar over here in the UK. These annual shows feature a variety of activities including Cosplay, Retro console systems, traders, guest speakers (check out the talk I gave a few years back in Manchester here), multiplayer LAN gaming and of course video arcade…
Arcade Raid! Abandoned House: Vive la France!
Last weekend, I was fortunate enough to be a part of an extraordinary arcade rescue mission. This turned out to be a very memorable raid for both good and bad reasons. Nothing could have prepared us for what we found. In short, we received a message from an English woman about two weeks ago, who…
Arcade Raid! A Canadian Horror Story
If you’re of a nervous disposition when it comes to classic arcade cabinets, you might want to hit the back button now. This is not a ‘good news’ arcade raid! I’ve not featured any Canadian arcade raids thus far on Arcade Blogger. That’s not through want of trying – they just seem to be few…
Atari Battlezone Restoration 5
We made good progress in Part 4 of this restoration after the lull of the cold winter months. Time this week to get out in the garage and tidy up some of the loose ends that are still to be done with the cabinet. Pulling the cab out of the garage, I noticed it covered…
Atari Ireland: Tipperary’s Arcade Connection
Atari’s massive success in the late 70s presented many challenges, not least of which was one of logistics: How were they going to get arcade product shipped globally to meet the huge demand for its arcade games? Transporting bulky 300lb lumps of wood, glass and metal around the globe from a single operational base in…
Time-Out Arcade: Amazing Classic Arcade Pictures
Note: These pictures were originally discovered by Peter Hirschberg who kindly agreed for me to share them here back in 2017 – a time when they didn’t have a permanent home. Do check out Peter’s updated website at http://www.timeoutarcades.com for even more pictures, memorabilia and history relating to the Time-Out arcade chain. – A remarkable…
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