5/21/2008

 
Anti-Stress Video Game
ScienCentral News - New York,NY,USAA simple video game has been shown to reduce stress. As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers at McGill University also found that playing the
Video Games Live to Play 40+ Shows in 2008
1UP.com - New York,NY,USABy Philip Kollar, 01/17/2008 The Video Games Live series of concerts have gained a lot of buzz in the gaming community as one of the most exciting ways to ...
Golden Tee Video Golf Tournament to Raise Thousands for Charity
MediaSyndicate (press release) - USAGolden Tee, the most successful coin-operated video game in history, enables thousands of players per day to compete in real time contests at thousands of ...
Video games attract older players
KSN-TV - Wichita,KS,USA23, 2008 – When you think of video games, senior citizens don't usually come to mind. But these days, older generations are turning to this technology as a ...
Fun Spot is the place to hit if you're a budding wheelman
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAThe indoor segment of Fun Spot features video games, pinball, skee ball and their ilk. The machines upstairs are included in the armband admission price, ...
Pinball wizards compete in tournament
New Jersey Herald - Newton,NJ,USAWhile "The Twilight Zone" is his favorite pinball machine, he had to test it out on Saturday, along with the other 18 machines on the floor of Castle Video, ...
Video game competition draws a crowd to save the universe
TriCities.com - Johnson City,TN,USAThey were lined up here at 8 am" "The contestants don’t play football; they play video games," she added. "They need somewhere to go to be in competition ...
The man who would beat Kong
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USAHis quarry is the high score set two decades earlier, in 1982, by Broward's own Billy Mitchell, who holds a clutch of records on classic arcade games of the ...
Illegal video poker operation busted
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USASixteen video poker machines seized from four shops. "We figure they were making about $2000 a day profit," said Capt. James Craven with the Iredell County ...
New book Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008 will please ...Toronto Star - Ontario, CanadaMs. Pac-Man from Namco's 1982 coin-operated game of the same name. This bit of trivia, and hundreds of other video game-related facts and figures, ...
Want to play Keno?
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USAOn the other hand, businesses that operate jukeboxes, video games, coin-operated dartboards and pool tables in bars are predicting that the new game will ...
Heaven in His '80s Arcade
Washington Post - United StatesBy Mike Musgrove Last time I wrote about Peter Hirschberg, a guy with a passion for restoring vintage, '80s-era arcade games, he was toying with the notion ...
Retro Arcade Gaming Fan Heaven Is Worth Infinite Quarters
Gizmodo - USABack in the heyday of the arcade, "Geometry Wars" is what we thought arcade games would look like in 20 years. It's the first game since the '80s that I can ...
Namco Blames Wii for Arcade Closures
Slashdot - USAPoorly maintained and/or abused machines as well. I usually spent more of my arcade quarters on pinball than vid by Joe Snipe (224958) They did when the ...
Gaming company stands poised to make millions on 8-liners in Texas
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA... for the stuffed toys in coin-operated machines at supermarkets. It allows games of chance if the awards are limited to noncash or token cash prizes. ...
The Crazy Games Kids Played In The 1960s…
Gaming Today - Spring,TX,USAIt seems like a lot of people these days are trying to claim that video games are bad for kids and also bad for the adults that play them. ...
Becoming a pinball wizard
amNewYork - New York,USAWhat are some of the most challenging machines to play on? Family Guy, Flash Gordon, Dirty Harry, The Shadow. Just to name a few. ...
Overturned Ohio gambling law has interesting history
Mansfield News Journal - Mansfield,OH,USA... aspects of his earlier bingo bill and included a definition of illegal "schemes of chance" that made the owners of coin-operated bar games nervous. ...
Arcade Games Make A Comeback
Forbes - NY,USA... GameGallery Amusements has been a major supplier of coin-op machines, including pinball, jukeboxes and of course videogame arcade machines to commercial businesses. ...
Senate panel to consider new rules for adult arcades
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USAThere are other arcade-related concerns, too: A new kind of electronic game room called a sweepstakes arcade, or Internet arcade, began proliferating ...
Parade of Homes features 21000-square-foot dwelling
St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA... two-lane bowling alley and arcade that featured black lights and disco lights and housed about 20 pinball machines, part of the homeowner's collection. ...
UK veteran marks 40 years in business
InterGame - Oldham,England,UK"Harry Dransfield, who had 51 per cent of Carfield at the time, was still buying machines from me even though they were the machines involved in the ...
They still play the silver ball
Michigan Daily - Ann Arbor,MI,USALinden said he's considering trading them all in, though, for the newest model on the market - a "Family Guy" machine introduced this year by Stern Pinball, ...
Las Vegas museums go tilt and kaboom
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USAThe last time I played a pinball machine, Tastykake was wrapping butterscotch Krimpets in wax paper. But when Tim Arnold, who operates the Pinball Hall of ...
The kid inside the engineer knows a thing or two
EDN.com - Newton,MA,USAIn my case, I was fascinated by pinball machines and I wanted to buy broken machines at auctions and fix them up. Sadly though, real engineering projects ...
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USALucky Ju Ju Pinball Art Gallery -- Art exhibits. "Proverbial Amusements": Paintings by Lena Reynosa, through March 5. "Paintings and Prints" by Gary
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Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USAFourth Annual Ohio Pinball and Game Room Festival — 8 am to 9 pm, Emidio Expo Center, 48 E. Bath Road, Cuyahoga Falls. More than 100 machines on free play. ...
'Home paradise'
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USAIf you're thinking about adding a game room to your home, there are plenty of factors to consider -- from calculating how much space you need to deciding ...
Founding father
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia1972's Pong was the first arcade game to receive widespread popularity, and later console versions produced by Atari (and countless other manufacturers) ...
Driver's Seat Pinball people
Tampa Bay Newspapers - Seminole,FL,USABy BOB DRIVER, columnist Remember the old-time pinball machines? You don’t see many of them any more. Fifty or 60 years ago, armed with a pocketful of ...
Al Alcorn - The Father of Gaming
PALGN - AustraliaI mean, for example, when we started the company we had coin operated games, and after about a year of that, it got kind of boring. ...
AUS: Game On Exhibition March 6 - July 13th
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAGame On tracks the development of videogames from the first computer game to arcade-era hits and the very latest from today's billion dollar industry. ...
The ultimate self-made man
The Observer - UKNot bad going for somebody who started out selling fizzy drinks door-to-door and renting out pinball machines to barbers Warren Buffett, the newly anointed ...
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
IGN - Brisbane,CA,USABack in the day Williams was responsible for many of the pinball machines that wound up in pizza parlors, 7-Elevens, bowling alleys, bars, and any of the ...
Grant Johnstone provides fun galore with his arcade game collection
West Linn Tidings - OR,USAHe cruises the Internet for information on where to buy and how to repair pinball machines. He has formed friendships with other arcade aficionados. ...
Unedited: Pinball wizard
Columbus Alive - Columbus,OH,USAThey're becoming real popular lately. You mentioned that Stern Pinball Inc., is the only company making machines. That seems kind of sad. Yeah, it is. ...
Invasion of the classics
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA... to compete in the Midwest Pinball Championship, but that doesn't mean you can't step up to one of the 75 or so pinball machines available at the Classic ...
DOUG ELFMAN: Manly manipulations
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USAGame dorks will be checking out video games, football-tossing games, pool tables and "Dance Dance Revolution"-style arcade games during the Amusement ...
For arcade-style shoot-'em-ups, join 'The Club'
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USAIn old-fashioned, arcade-style games, scores are everything. Players must manage living, hurrying, discovering and learning subtle differences of maps and ...
The Greatest Science Fiction Pinball Machines Of All Time
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USAThere have been tons of scifi pinball machines, with some amazingly garish artwork. Besides all of the Star Trek, Star Wars, and other licensed games, ...
Oconomowoc Welcomes 7th Annual Midewst Gaming Classic
MyFox Milwaukee - Milwaukee,WI,USA"Pinball games, console machines, video games, arcade uprights, computers, pretty much anything you want," said organizer Dan Loosen. ...
One planet, under pinball
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USAMore than 60 years after the introduction of the flipper, pinball is in trouble. A decade ago there were maybe 2.5 million pinball machines in commercial ...
More than 70 percent of Americans playing video games
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USABy Mike Antonucci A report today from the NPD Group, a New York-based market research firm, reveals that 72 percent of the US population played video games ...
Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball
New York Press - New York,NY,USAStern Pinball still makes pinball machines. They’re doing OK. With pinball, you can’t make a billion copies of software the way you can with video. ...
Pinball Hall of Fame rolls exactly like the classic game
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USARoger Sharpe saved pinball. It's hard to believe now, but pinball machines used to be illegal in cities around the country, from New York to California and ...
Mathematician a pinball wizard
Enterprise News - Brockton,MA,USAIn front of him are three pinball machines he’s won. Another one is on the way, one of the prizes in the International Flipper Pinball Association’s first ...
maniaTV's Gaming Show Arcade Launches New Season
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USAArcade gets viewers up-to-date on cutting edge video games, the machines that power them and the gamers that rule them. The show consists of four segments ...
Game Room Show draws pinball enthusiasts
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA... where a variety of game room-type units, including pinball and slot machines, foosball tables and arcade video games were on display. ...
Grey Flannel's May 14 auction features coin ops, amusements from ...
News-antique.com (press release) - Garden City,NY,USALater, the owners added concessions and a games arcade.” In 1962, amusements and machines from Playland were sent to the Seattle World’s Fair, ...
It's 1980, And You're Commanding A Tank On Another Planet
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USABattlezone incorporated many new design elements that hadn't been seen in coin-operated games before, like a persicope-like viewer and realistic (for the ...
Collection of Tacoma antiques dealer Steve Craig goes up for auction
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USAPinball machines, a shuffleboard game, juke boxes, a complete soda fountain, tiki bar, pornography of a sort not spoken of in family newspapers, ...
Why Pong scored so highly for Atari
Guardian - UK"At that time, coin-operated games were dominated by pinball machines that had sometimes lurid graphics or driving machines that required skills that ...
Kalamazoo fairground hosts competition for pinball wizards
MLive.com - MI,USAThe event continues Saturday from 9 am through 6 pm and includes competitions and an auction of pinball machines. But for Joshua, pinball is more than a ...
Become a pinball wizard again
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USABy dirk lammers of AP Purists who play the silver ball might say pinball should be enjoyed on full-sized machines, but few of us have the money or den space ...
Pinball wizard edes’ Top Five
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USAToday, Stern, currently the country’s only major pinball manufacturer, uses digital computer technology to control dozens of moving parts. ...
Pinball Wizardry
Popular Science - New York,NY,USAFortunately, the developers have scrupulously re-created some of the best pinball machines ever made. There’s Gorgar (1979), the first talking pinball ...
Pinball sales wizards leaving the business
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USAAll told, the Biechlers estimate they've sold as many as 5000 coin-operated games. But Paul can't completely tear himself away from the business, ...
For a Survivor in the Pinball Industry, the Game Isn’t Over
New York Times - United StatesBut this place, Stern Pinball Inc., is the last of its kind in the world. A range of companies once mass produced pinball machines, especially in the ...
A Look Inside the Last Pinball Factory in the World
Gizmodo.com - USADid you know that there's only one manufacturer of pinball machines left in the world? That sole survivor of the pinball age is Stern Pinball, based outside ...
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Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA"It had the biggest collection of pinball machines I'd ever seen in my life," Derrick Stamos said. In the 1980s, the cars gave way to the golden age of ...
Classic pinball games go digital
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA"Pinball Hall of Fame" features a virtual arcade, letting players browse the tables before settling in to play. AP photo The "Funhouse" title in the ...
Pinball would-be wizard's lament
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USAI hadn't been playing much pinball in those days, but I was a kid in a candy store in this place. Scores of pinball machines, and all of 'em set up for free ...
For the ultimate pinball wizard, math skills help his winning strategy
Boston Globe - United StatesArcades have been going out of business, and only one company, Chicago-based Stern Pinball, still makes pinball machines. While pinball video games are ...
'King of Pinball' sees more than flashing lights
Los Angeles Times - CA,USAYou might say he's to pinball what Kobe Bryant is to the Lakers, although shorter and not as rich. I haven't thought about pinball machines in a good many ...
2008 Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show June 6-8
Eastside Business Journal - Bellevue,Washington,USAThe event will feature pinball machines from the last 50 years setup for free play with paid admission. Competitive players will compete in the ...
As went Nixon and disco, so goes pinball
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USABut this place, Stern Pinball Inc., is the last of its kind in the world. A range of companies once mass-produced pinball machines, especially in the ...
Meet the pinball wizards of art
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USAIt's a warehouse that also houses a huge stash of more than 300 vintage pinball machines, so I'm not supposed to tell you where it is, which is not a ...
Pinball wizard
SunJournal.com (subscription) - Lewiston,ME,USA"All his stuff" is Edes' collection: more than 70 classic and newer pinball machines. And turning on even a few of them at the same time produces a ...
Bizarre Japanese Arcade Game: Live Lobster Catcher
Weird Asia News - San Mateo,CA,USARemember those coin-operated “claw” games in the 80’s, where you could snag some fuzzy dice if you moved the robot hand with enough skill? ...
Q&A: Greg Maletic On 'Tilt: The Battle To Save Pinball'
Gamasutra - San Francisco,CA,USAIs there room for more niche pinball companies like Stern? I'm not an expert in the business side of things, but I'd say there might be room for one more ...
From Holy Water to Firewood - The History of the Vending Machine
Inventorspot - USAProving that one invention can create another, this new kind of mechanical motion became the basis for slot machines and pinball. ...
Pinball moves into video games
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USABy DIRK LAMMERS AP Purists who play the silver ball might say pinball should be enjoyed on full-sized machines, but few of us have the money or den space to ...
Long-time Lisle arcade company closing its doors
Sun Publications Chicago - Chicago,IL,USADuring the first week of April, the couple launched their going-out-of-business sale, where folks could buy anything from parts to pinball machines at ...
Japan's Sega Sammy swings into loss as video game unit struggles ...
Hemscott - London,UKSega Sammy is also the holding company of Sammy, maker of pachinko machines, which are similar to pinball machines. The company said visits to its game ...
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InterGame - Oldham,England,UKReporter Jeff Flock interviewed Gary Stern and discussed the game, as well as the history and future of pinball, while he stood next to a row of Stern’s ...





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