Gamer couple builds successful nolstalgic arcade company
In Folsom, California, Michael Ware has just completed his arcade machine inside his warehouse. It took him five years, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer who recently ran a feature on Ware’s Dream Arcade company.
Ware told the Inquirer his target audience are adults in their 30s and 40s who want to relive their favorite games of the 1980s.Games such as Pac-Man, Pong and Centipede to name a few.
“The games play exactly like the original,“ said Ware, a former Intel Corp. engineer and owner of the Dream Arcades with his wife, Michelle, a former employee of Krispy Kreme, acts as the company’s financial officer. “The nostalgia, that’s what we’re looking for. It’s timeless, these games.“
Gamertell Review: King of Kong
The King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters is a rare achievement: a genuinely good videogame film. Directed by Seth Gordon, the documentary follows nice-guy Steve Wiebe as he challenges the ultimate Donkey Kong score (and ego) of Billy Mitchell, the self proclaimed king of classic arcade games.
The film is by turns hilarious and touching. Seth Gordon has a light touch with all the humor. Overly serious arcade gurus like Mr. Awesome and eccentric Twin Galaxies creator Walter Day get played for gentle laughs, while the real zingers are aimed at Mitchell’s inflated sense of self. At one point, he even exclaims, without a hint of irony, “When I talk, it brings controversy. It’s like the abortion issue.”
It’s clear that…
‘80s Flashback: Flash vs. Colonel Computron
Whenever I get nostalgic for those bygone days of videogames known as the early 1980s, I question my sanity when I come across things like this bit of videogame inspired lovliness.
In an old box of comic books I unearthed for an upcoming garage sales, I found issue 304 of Flash published by DC Comics, Inc., in December 1981. On the cover it features the dark profile of one of the weirdest comic book villains - Colonel Computron. Oh yeah, you read that right. Col. Computron - reducing Flash to a poorly pixelated videogame. The cover reads:
“When Colonel Computron plays the game, Flash… the name of the game is DEATH!“
Now that is some ‘80s greatness right there.
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