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Atari’s Mike Jang

The Arcade Blogger about 3 months ago

Some sad news to report on the blog this week. I got word that long-time Industrial Designer at Atari coin-operated division, Mike Jang, has passed away. I’ve known Mike since 2016, and whilst we never met, he was always on the other end of an em …
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This Game Preservation Group Wants To Archive LaserDisc Games Before They're Lost Forever

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"This project needs international cooperation".The Japanese Game Preservation Society has released its annual newsletter detailing the NPO's activities - of note is that after two years of research, it has begun doing the first data migration of LaserDisc …
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A British Classic Arcade Photo Tour

The Arcade Blogger about 5 months ago

Searching the web for photos of classic arcades from back in the day, tends to bring up a plethora of American locations. Which is all well and good and pretty informative, but sets of genuine photographs taken in the 80s and 90s that documented the Briti …
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8-bit acorn hardware • Master AIV/Doomsday Battery Location

Stardot about 5 months ago

While doing some offsite work at TNMoC yesterday on various systems, there was a Master AIV (Advanced Interactive Video), aka Doomsday box needing a little attention.When it came to the battery replacement, the obvious first thing that stands out is the A …
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Guide: Best MSX Games Of All Time

Time Extension about 6 months ago

The Japanese computer that gave the world Metal Gear.2023 marks the 40th anniversary of the MSX, the Japanese computer standard that ran from 1983 to 1993 and spanned dozens of hardware variations from manufacturers such as Sony, Philips, Panasonic and man …
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California Extreme Arcade Expo 2023

The Arcade Blogger about 7 months ago

I promised I’d share some pictures from my visit in August this year to the California Extreme arcade expo, so, here we go! This year marks the 27th Anniversary of the California Extreme Expo! Hosted at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Santa Clara, t …
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Rediscovering Castle Master on Atari ST

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Being lucky enough to have pretty much lived my life in parallel to the entire history of video games, I’ve also been lucky enough to have been blown away over and over again by every leap they’ve ever made, even if the height seems to have got a bit …
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Discovering G-LOC: Air Battle on Nintendo Switch / Arcade

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Was there ever a better example of style over substance in gaming than Dragon’s Lair? That’s what I was wondering recently as I failed once again to get off the very first screen of the 1989 Atari ST port of the 1983 Cinematronics arcade game! There h …
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FS: Pioneer LD Player CLD-100

Arcade Projects about 10 months ago

Pioneer LD Player CLD-100, used original japanese Laserdisc Player, fully working, S-Video output, NTSC, without remote 150,00 EUR I can add some NTSC Laserdiscs if necessary Shipping from germany at costs. Jan …
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Three LaserDisc Classic Games (Including Time Gal) are Getting HD Remasters on Switch

Shiro! about 10 months ago

Just last week, Taito announced a three game compilation titled The Taito LD Collection. Compiling the classic LaserDisc FMV games such as Time Gal and Ninja Hayate (Previously ported to... …
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Three Of Taito's Classic '80s LaserDisc Games Are Coming To Nintendo Switch

Time Extension about 10 months ago

Update: New game "Time Gal Rebirth" detailed.Update : We now have more details on the new Time Gal game for Nintendo Switch, which is being released as part of the upcoming Taito LD Game Collection. The game will be included in the special edition version …

8-bit acorn software: other • Internal ADFS for M128 AIV SCSI

Stardot about 11 months ago

Thanks to MPH1708 with the loan of a Master internal VFS adapter, and Hoglet for a lot of help and advice, I could finally play about with BeebSCSI and see if I could get read/write access working with VFS. I already knew the VFS OSWORD call enables any …

Dexter Laser Disc Player Replacement

Museum of the Game about 11 months ago

Selling my spare Dexter. $500 shipped to the US only. …

Stern Electronics (1983): Goal to Go [Laserdisc]

Arcade Controls about 11 months ago

For anyone with an interest in this maligned title, I have made some progress in resurrecting: …

General Discussions • Domesday Duplicator, Merlin, Lasercon, Arthur, Dexter... as a LASERDISC GAMES possibility?

MISTerFPGA about 11 months ago

I'd love to see more people aware of the Domesday Duplicator project:https://github.com/... ... i/OverviewThinking about having laserdisc games in an arcade cabinet build, I looked into what options exist beyond emulation like Daphne, whe …
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Arcade Raid! South Dakota mega-haul

The Arcade Blogger about 1 year ago

Here’s a cool arcade raid tale from a few years back that turned up several rare titles. US-based collector Joe Magiera received a message from a fellow collector back in 2006 with a lead on some arcade cabinets being sold off. It read: I go …
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Wuzzo Goes on Holiday

CD-ROM Journal about 1 year ago

In writing this article, I'm indebted to Aura Triolo, whose research assistance was incredibly helpful. Wuzzo is an anthropomorphic bird, and he's about to have the worst day of his life on his way to the best day of his life. The poor hapless fellow stru …
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Happy Pi Day – RetroPie 4.8 is released

RetroPie about 2 years ago

Happy Pi Day! After a long wait, we are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 4.8. The RetroPie 4.8 images are built on the latest version of the Raspberry Pi OS Lite Buster (which is now their legacy release). This image supports the latest …