What To Expect: A Glimpse At Future Content

I've liked video arcade games and arcades for quite a while. There's something about a big dark room full of illuminated monitors and marquees blaring loud synthesized music or computerized sound effects mixed with the occasional slapping of buttons and coins falling into the dish of a change machine. A handful of quarters was a handful of possibilities, to be carefully distributed to causes of setting new high scores, defeating random strangers, or teaming up with those same random strangers to defeat the computer. Good times, good times.

This blog, over the next several weeks and potentially the foreseeable future, will be dedicated to the arcade experience, from individual game information and backgrounds to pictures and visits to existing arcades to information about building and maintaining the machines themselves.

Some specific things I'll be covering:

• Basic business models of arcades, past and present - how the modern arcade has changed
• Vintage vs Modern Games - how the hardware, software, and overall experience evolved
• Photo galleries and information from visits to current arcades
• How-to projects for home, such as making your own arcade stick for a home setup
• Maintenance and upkeep information, including (hopefully!) the restoration of a machine

My goal is both to revisit past nostalgic experiences and also to discuss current trends in arcade gaming, including conventions, tournaments, the community, and things to look forward to. There's a lot of ground to cover here, and hopefully we'll be off and running shortly.

Questions and other inquiries welcome!