[game_preservation] A sad day for arcade games

[O'Donnell, Dean M]

Jason talks about a documentary called "Tilt" which is a history of pinball machines, but currently he's working on a history of text adventures called "Get Lamp."

Tilt's website: http://www.tilt-movie.com/ 

I live a mere two hours from Funspot, so once a year I go for my arcade fix.  It seems to me the arcade really lives at the beach.  We go to the Maine coast every summer and there are numerous arcades near every beach.

Dean

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Dean O'Donnell     Associate Director, 
Interactive Media and Game Development 
Dept. of Humanities and Arts   WPI 
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From: game_preservation-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_preservation-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Armstrong
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:03 PM
To: IGDA Game Preservation SIG
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] A sad day for arcade games

They're certainly getting much much rarer, even in steadfast areas like 
Japan (Sega closed or has plans to close something like half of them 
there right?)

Not many good ones left in the UK that's for sure. The Trocadero is not 
very good apart from there are a fair few machines, and worth going to 
once or twice.

Need some kind of work put into documenting them. Wasn't Jason Scott 
going to do a pinball or arcade documentary next? and I am sure I saw 
some books and sites dedicated to it recently.

Andrew

Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

> Someone posted in the RPGnet forums:

>

> "What were arcades like?

> I was reading about arcades and how you'd have to queue to play 

> popular games as well as follow rules like no throwing in fighting 

> game or the others wouldn't let you play. This seems rather strange. 

> The money cost must have gotten expensive pretty quickly as well. I'm 

> not old enough to have been to them when they were around so I'm 

> curious about what they were like."

>

> *sobs*

>

> http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=440112

>

>

> -Rach

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