10/30/2007
Golden Tee -
ChinaGolden Tee is the most popular coin-operated game in history, with more than twenty million players worldwide. It generates more than $400 million in ...
The Simpsons Game - A Fact Sheet
Cinema Blend - USAKonami's The Simpsons Arcade Game would be a sweet bonus for those of us who remember and love the last good Simpsons game that didn't feature racing around ...
Local pinball player ranked 42nd in world
Summit Daily News - Frisco,CO,USAFARMER'S KORNER - Jeff Rank is slowly but surely working his way up in the World Pinball Player Rankings (WPPR). Rank, who resides in a Farmer's Korner
The Heartland Plays Pinball
KFVS - Cape Girardeau,MO,USATheir game is pinball. "I can remember when I was a newspaper boy and I spent many dimes and quarters on these games," said Heartland Pinball and Arcade
They still play the silver ball
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USAAJ Fried started the league in 1993, initially calling it the Garden State Pinball Association. "I was a little kid when I first saw them in an arcade and I ...
Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful
Gizmodo.com - USAThis is the Transparent Pinball Machine, a custom piece created out of a 1976 "Surf Champ" unit by Michael Schiess, owner of the Lucky JuJu Pinball Arcade ...
Players Lost Millions On Illegal Poker Machines
NBC 10.com - Philadelphia,PA,USAAbout $2 million was seized in an undercover bust of illegal video poker machines at local area bars. You might have played one of the gambling machines if ...
See you in ten years?
Beaumont Enterprise - Beaumont,TX,USACoin-operated arcades: According to the American Amusement Machine Association, there were 10000 arcades in the nation 10 years ago. ...
Pinball machines decriminalized
Nuevo Mundo - CA,USABy Melanie Carroll For more than half a century, an obscure town ordinance made it illegal to use a pinball, marble or claw machine in Los Altos Hills. ...
World Pinball Championship Tourney Under Way In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Channel.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USABowen Kerins is a two-time pinball champion of the world. The Salem, Mass., man came to Carnegie to take the title back. "This is probably the most fun ...
Special when lit
Novato Advance - Novato,CA,USABut on the other hand, who is obsessed enough to start collecting pinball machines and attending pinball exhibitions? Are they serious gamers, ...
Kill Screen
Dr. Dobb's Journal - San Mateo,CA,USABut luckily I didn't miss a recent movie -- King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary that's all about the classic video arcade game Donkey Kong. ...
Gaming revenues fight gaming
Scranton Times-Tribune - PA, USAThe action means revenues generated by slot machines - a recently legalized form of gambling - are being used to suppress video poker machines, ...
A Fistful of Quarters
PopMatters - Chicago,IL,USAC. A musty, classic arcade game such as Ms. Pac-Man or Galaga must sit in the corner near the change machine for entertainment. ...
Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: The Classics Edition
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USAOne of my favorite arcade games of all time along with Crystal Castles. I spent more money on this game in the arcade than almost any other. ...
Pinball wizards have field day at San Rafael expo
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USAA mannequin beckons passers-by to play Funhouse, one of about 250 pinball games on display through Sunday. (IJ photo/Jeff Vendsel) FOR SOME, a pinball ...
Gauselmann buys historic coin-op machines
InterGame - Oldham,England,UKIN the mid-1960s, Jean-Claude Baudot compiled a collection of historic coin-operated machines that was unique in France. The collection has now been sold to ...
Swinging Singles, The NSFW Arcade Game
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USAMAME certainly lives up to its mission by giving us a look at something few of us would have been able to experience in 1983, the adult arcade game Swinging ...
Pinball Takes Over Marin Civic Center
Alameda Sun - Alameda,CA,USAAlameda's own pinball wizard Michael Schiess is taking his act across the Bay this weekend. The director of the Neptune Beach Amusement Museum is part of ...
Taking on aliens for Team USA: Local man in video-game Olympics
Seattle Times - United StatesOne of several such events, the seven-year-old WCG bills itself as the Olympics of competitive video-game tournaments, pitting 700 gamers from 75 countries ...
The next horse and buggy
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada... to coin-operated arcades - piggy banks because we're moving to a paperless, coinless society and arcades because home video games dominate the industry. ...
Pinball wizards prepare for expo
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USABy Laura Casey By Laura Casey Even though Michael Schiess owns more than 200 vintage pinball machines, he will tell you he is no collector. ...
'Adult Chuck E. Cheese' Hit With Gambling Charge
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USAAt the time, Zilba told a Tribune reporter, "It's like an adult Chuck E. Cheese." Florida law allows gambling establishments to operate under specific ...
Fairfield man plays himself in video game documentary
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USAHe started a video arcade in Ottumwa in 1981. The next year, he decided to record high scores of video games, which were exploding in popularity. ...
Atari founder: 'Video games today are trash'
GamePro.com - USAby Blake Snow 10/22/2007 10:14:51 AM PST Nolan Bushnell, often referred to as the father of modern video games by creating Pong, doesn't like the ...
Family Amusement Center Auction Goes Online
EcommWire (press release) - Natick,MA,USAMore than 350 video games, pinball machines, CD jukeboxes, pool tables and more will be available for online bidding during the auction. ...
Kids get fit as gym classes pump up video games
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA(October 25, 2007) — To combat rising rates of childhood obesity, local schools are starting to incorporate popular video games and video game systems into ...
Just can't get enoughTimes Record News - Wichita Falls,TX,USANeither Bally, Gottlieb or Williams still make pinball machines, he said. Chicago Coin sold out to Stern in the mid-'70s and the company still puts out ...
Penny Arcade Expo sets 2008 date
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USAThe event has become a fixture for video game enthusiasts, tabletop gamers and others, drawing more than 37000 attendees in 2007. It's an outgrowth of Penny ...
It's game time
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USABut on the other hand, home pinball has really come on strong." As game-room equipment becomes more common in the home, manufacturers have responded by ...
ChinaGolden Tee is the most popular coin-operated game in history, with more than twenty million players worldwide. It generates more than $400 million in ...
The Simpsons Game - A Fact Sheet
Cinema Blend - USAKonami's The Simpsons Arcade Game would be a sweet bonus for those of us who remember and love the last good Simpsons game that didn't feature racing around ...
Local pinball player ranked 42nd in world
Summit Daily News - Frisco,CO,USAFARMER'S KORNER - Jeff Rank is slowly but surely working his way up in the World Pinball Player Rankings (WPPR). Rank, who resides in a Farmer's Korner
The Heartland Plays Pinball
KFVS - Cape Girardeau,MO,USATheir game is pinball. "I can remember when I was a newspaper boy and I spent many dimes and quarters on these games," said Heartland Pinball and Arcade
They still play the silver ball
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USAAJ Fried started the league in 1993, initially calling it the Garden State Pinball Association. "I was a little kid when I first saw them in an arcade and I ...
Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful
Gizmodo.com - USAThis is the Transparent Pinball Machine, a custom piece created out of a 1976 "Surf Champ" unit by Michael Schiess, owner of the Lucky JuJu Pinball Arcade ...
Players Lost Millions On Illegal Poker Machines
NBC 10.com - Philadelphia,PA,USAAbout $2 million was seized in an undercover bust of illegal video poker machines at local area bars. You might have played one of the gambling machines if ...
See you in ten years?
Beaumont Enterprise - Beaumont,TX,USACoin-operated arcades: According to the American Amusement Machine Association, there were 10000 arcades in the nation 10 years ago. ...
Pinball machines decriminalized
Nuevo Mundo - CA,USABy Melanie Carroll For more than half a century, an obscure town ordinance made it illegal to use a pinball, marble or claw machine in Los Altos Hills. ...
World Pinball Championship Tourney Under Way In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Channel.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USABowen Kerins is a two-time pinball champion of the world. The Salem, Mass., man came to Carnegie to take the title back. "This is probably the most fun ...
Special when lit
Novato Advance - Novato,CA,USABut on the other hand, who is obsessed enough to start collecting pinball machines and attending pinball exhibitions? Are they serious gamers, ...
Kill Screen
Dr. Dobb's Journal - San Mateo,CA,USABut luckily I didn't miss a recent movie -- King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary that's all about the classic video arcade game Donkey Kong. ...
Gaming revenues fight gaming
Scranton Times-Tribune - PA, USAThe action means revenues generated by slot machines - a recently legalized form of gambling - are being used to suppress video poker machines, ...
A Fistful of Quarters
PopMatters - Chicago,IL,USAC. A musty, classic arcade game such as Ms. Pac-Man or Galaga must sit in the corner near the change machine for entertainment. ...
Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: The Classics Edition
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USAOne of my favorite arcade games of all time along with Crystal Castles. I spent more money on this game in the arcade than almost any other. ...
Pinball wizards have field day at San Rafael expo
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USAA mannequin beckons passers-by to play Funhouse, one of about 250 pinball games on display through Sunday. (IJ photo/Jeff Vendsel) FOR SOME, a pinball ...
Gauselmann buys historic coin-op machines
InterGame - Oldham,England,UKIN the mid-1960s, Jean-Claude Baudot compiled a collection of historic coin-operated machines that was unique in France. The collection has now been sold to ...
Swinging Singles, The NSFW Arcade Game
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USAMAME certainly lives up to its mission by giving us a look at something few of us would have been able to experience in 1983, the adult arcade game Swinging ...
Pinball Takes Over Marin Civic Center
Alameda Sun - Alameda,CA,USAAlameda's own pinball wizard Michael Schiess is taking his act across the Bay this weekend. The director of the Neptune Beach Amusement Museum is part of ...
Taking on aliens for Team USA: Local man in video-game Olympics
Seattle Times - United StatesOne of several such events, the seven-year-old WCG bills itself as the Olympics of competitive video-game tournaments, pitting 700 gamers from 75 countries ...
The next horse and buggy
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada... to coin-operated arcades - piggy banks because we're moving to a paperless, coinless society and arcades because home video games dominate the industry. ...
Pinball wizards prepare for expo
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USABy Laura Casey By Laura Casey Even though Michael Schiess owns more than 200 vintage pinball machines, he will tell you he is no collector. ...
'Adult Chuck E. Cheese' Hit With Gambling Charge
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USAAt the time, Zilba told a Tribune reporter, "It's like an adult Chuck E. Cheese." Florida law allows gambling establishments to operate under specific ...
Fairfield man plays himself in video game documentary
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USAHe started a video arcade in Ottumwa in 1981. The next year, he decided to record high scores of video games, which were exploding in popularity. ...
Atari founder: 'Video games today are trash'
GamePro.com - USAby Blake Snow 10/22/2007 10:14:51 AM PST Nolan Bushnell, often referred to as the father of modern video games by creating Pong, doesn't like the ...
Family Amusement Center Auction Goes Online
EcommWire (press release) - Natick,MA,USAMore than 350 video games, pinball machines, CD jukeboxes, pool tables and more will be available for online bidding during the auction. ...
Kids get fit as gym classes pump up video games
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA(October 25, 2007) — To combat rising rates of childhood obesity, local schools are starting to incorporate popular video games and video game systems into ...
Just can't get enoughTimes Record News - Wichita Falls,TX,USANeither Bally, Gottlieb or Williams still make pinball machines, he said. Chicago Coin sold out to Stern in the mid-'70s and the company still puts out ...
Penny Arcade Expo sets 2008 date
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USAThe event has become a fixture for video game enthusiasts, tabletop gamers and others, drawing more than 37000 attendees in 2007. It's an outgrowth of Penny ...
It's game time
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USABut on the other hand, home pinball has really come on strong." As game-room equipment becomes more common in the home, manufacturers have responded by ...
