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Fathers' Day @ The Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo
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Inside a new Atlanta video game and pinball convention.
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Awesome article and pics, thanks!
btw is Scarlett better? You can't open with a kid having a high fever and not let worried empathetic parents know she's better now by the end!
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They had a couple of them stuck in the Disneyland arcade during the theater run, all set to free play. It was very well done, felt just like a lost classic.
We don't have any sudden flash expos that I'm aware of, but there's a couple of retro arcades in town. We took my kids to the more family-oriented one and they had a blast. Gauntlet was the big winner that night.
I also wrecked my wrists playing R-Type. Those old consoles are just ergonomically brutal. I think I'm permanently damaged from childhood.
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That shit should be bottled and sold as cologne.Michael Barnes wrote: It’s like this ozone smell of hot electronics enclosed in wood.
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(How'd you get that photo of River playing pinball? It's great!, but shouldn't there be a machine back in that angle?)
My son is also a huge fan of retro-gaming. We have this place, Pinballz Kingdom, about 15 mins from the house that specializes in old-school pinball and arcade cabinets. We hit it up with a stack of randomly collected/found quarters about once a month (then head over for a Dan's burger and shake across the street).
His mom got him a book on the early history of video games, so he's always dropping little trivia bits when we play which is cute. I've wondered if him playing in the world of our nostalgia robs him of his own generation's offerings, but when I looking around I stopped worrying. Outside of the home consoles, all the new video games seem to either be timed racers, gun/rail shooters, or those various garbage machines that spit out tickets. Nothing doing there.
Whenever we go to a place that supposedly has 'arcade' games we look for the one or two retro machines tucked in the back (usually Pac-Man, Mrs. Pac-man, or Galaga are on hand...seems like there was a big run on Mrs. Pac-man/Galaga split machines put out sometime in the last decade...they're everywhere) and do the little thing with the quarters on the cabinet and take turns. It's a fun tradition for us.
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