The Moment of Bluth
happy birthday day Don Bluth
thank you for making super awesome looking laser–disc based arcade games that were impossible to play and ate a zillion quarters!!!
Un-Bored Games
another year, another spot of fun
oh, and the non-arcade game stuff was nice and stuff!
and A Ross Kakoji remains our hero amongst men of a certain age
Appreciation of Tokens
one trip to Funspot is never enuff, so we made a second trip there this past weekend (especially since Crossbow & Fire Truck were out of order last time and weren’t this time!!!). and since new ye olde games (how come we’ve never played the sorta recent Crazy Taxi before????) keep getting rotated into the mix at the world’s largest arcade, two trips aint gonna suffice none neither. here’s some Arcade Flyers of sum of them new ye olde beauties we coin-opted to flidazzle riznazzle
do yerself a flavor and add Funspot, right below Graceland, on places to visit before you die
& if you haven’t already, find some way to watch the doc Chasing Ghosts: Beyond The Arcade, which, if you can believe it, is > than The King of Kong
Live Free or Use Tokens
now that The Old Man of the Mountain has crumbled more than a presidential campaign run by his brother John Kerry, a new thing hath since becometh the bestest thing to hail from our 9th state, New Hampshire, and it goes by the name of Funspot
fo those of yous who saw the franztastic doc King of Kong, you probably remember this as the place Steve Wiebe earned his crown, but fo the rest of you alls, lest this serve as a giant wake-up call as it’s a place (right behind Graceland and the Kingdom of Thighland) to make a pilgrimage to befive you dies. if you were an arcade gamer in the 80s, or ever wanted to know what it was like back then (we pity the fool you), then you MUSS get yer a$$ to Mars Funspot, and specifically, to their American Classic Arcade Museum section. LOOK AT THIS FRIGGIN FARGIN LIST O GAMES!!!! tits a gamer’s wet dream come true and all over one’s pants (the only ones missing in our books be Baby Pac Man and Haunted House pinball). most of the old schooly games are only a token. $20 gets you 80 tokens + a bonus of 50!!! that’s MO than a enuff to keep you busy for hours and hours of powers and powers!!!!
all hail the King of Kong!!!
WIEBE!!
anywho, Kid Kadoji and we used a visit to our pal Tom Welling: Greatest Actor EV‘s Shirehamp lake house paddy-pad as an eggcuse to go to the F-Spot (or was it the other way around?). everyone had such a gay olde thyme there (sadly we didn’t have enuff gay olde thyme for duckpin bowling, air hockey, kiddie bumper cars or bingo. yes Funspot also has BINGO!) that we’re gonna invite ourselves back to TW:GAE’s place next summer so we can keep feeding our Crystal Castles addiction (BK’s splendid Barcade will fill in our arcading void in the interim). anywho rd2, we took some fotos, and here they is, but fotos could never replace the actual experience of slipping money into metal slots. THE LOOSEST SLOTS IN ALL OF NEW ENGLAND!!!
doesn’t get more klassic than the OG Star Wars game
cause nuttin beats blowin up the Death Star over & over & over
another of our balls thyme faves, esp the mine car riding part
too bad there aint a level where you get to whip George Lucas
man, we’re juss as awful at Paperboy as we used to be!
hactually, all these old games are forkin umpossible!!
TRON!
almos as confusing and as lame as the original movie!
we gots more Elevator Action this July
then we did regular action
SKATE OR DIE!!!
eat it Anderson Cooper & yer 360 BS!!!
biggest waste of tokens mt EVERest: Dragon’s Lair
but nuttin beats its look, spanks to Don Bluth!
2nd biggest waste of tokens mt EVERest: Space Ace
which is D Lair’s flashier, butter playing brother
wait, they made a real game out of the fictional game in C & D?
either way, that game sucked!
but the movie didn’t!
go Dabney Coleman!!!
POOYAN!
it sez POO!!!
pee es – we were a lil depressed that the Crossbow and Fire Truck games were out of order :(
pee es 2 – the folks over at Joystiq made a visit as well and took an a$$ load of (butter) pics!