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  • Midwest Gaming Classic Continuing coverage of the Midwest Gaming Classic, the back area was dedicated as the “museum” of gaming consoles. From Altair to Zeo, the museum had all sorts of machines and even more historic games. You could even play Zork I on a PC. The museum was split into a few rooms – the first one was old console games, the second was...

    part 3: Console Museum, Homebrew Club – Midwest Gaming Classic

    Posted on March 28, 2011 | No Comments
    Midwest Gaming Classic Continuing coverage of the Midwest Gaming Classic, the back area was dedicated as the “museum” of gaming consoles. From Altair to Zeo, the museum had all sorts of machines and even more historic games. You could even play Zork I on a PC. The museum was split into a few rooms – the first one was old console games, the second was...

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  • Midwest Gaming Classic Continuing coverage of the Midwest Gaming Classic, I moved to my favorite part of gaming. Pinball machines. I am fascinated with everything about pinball. I walk through the Arcade, seeing a lot of the games I grew up with. Older and newer Pinball machines all in one room. Of course, there were also console games. My favorite one was Sinistar. I ran into Jon...

    part 2: Pinball, Pynball – Midwest Gaming Classic

    Posted on March 28, 2011 | No Comments
    Midwest Gaming Classic Continuing coverage of the Midwest Gaming Classic, I moved to my favorite part of gaming. Pinball machines. I am fascinated with everything about pinball. I walk through the Arcade, seeing a lot of the games I grew up with. Older and newer Pinball machines all in one room. Of course, there were also console games. My favorite one was Sinistar. I ran into Jon...

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  • The coolest thing about the LIVE SHOW is you never know who is going to show up. This week started slow, but that all changed when Jeri Ellsworth showed up. Jeri created the Commodore 64 joystick – 30 C64 games on one joystick controller. We talked about Pinball machines and Video Arcade systems. Jeri was also building a new studio, so we talked about...

    LIVE SHOW 10-20-2008 – Chat with Jeri Ellsworth

    Posted on October 20, 2008 | No Comments
    The coolest thing about the LIVE SHOW is you never know who is going to show up. This week started slow, but that all changed when Jeri Ellsworth showed up. Jeri created the Commodore 64 joystick – 30 C64 games on one joystick controller. We talked about Pinball machines and Video Arcade systems. Jeri was also building a new studio, so we talked about...

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  • Fakes on the Internet

    Posted on June 5, 2008 | 1 Comment
    Fakes. Throughout time we’ve had to deal with those who want to pass something off as an original. Sometimes we are not fooled. Other times we go years thinking that it’s the real thing until some new technology tells us different. In the last week I’ve seen many fake photos of different items – most notably the Large GPS picture and Windows 7 screenshots....

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