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Save the Arcades 2!

27th May 2010

Originally linked to me from Wil Wheaton’s twitter, I followed the path to Ground Kontrol’s blog to find a challenge of gaming high score proportions.  Set yourself up an account and donate your high scores to the classic arcade of your choice.  Ideally all of us in Portland, OR would hope that it goes towards Ground Kontrol, but the ultimate choice is yours.

For those of us whom grew up in the arcade era, it has been a tear at the childhood heartstrings every time we saw one close.  Now they are a rare endangered species, being fiercely guarded by video arcade conversationalists.  If you enjoy local nickel arcades, being a pinball wizard, or fantasize about putting your quarters up on the screen for the next turn at the cabinet, please do your part and play the Stride sponsored game above.  This will give at least one arcade the strength to continue the good fight.

–ben

UPDATE 6/18/2010: Ground Kontrol won the challenge, with almost double the points of the other two arcades combined for a prize of $25k!  While this makes me happy for Ground Kontrol, it is also bittersweet, knowing that two other arcades didn’t get the funds to do something exciting to keep themselves alive.  Cheers to Stride for this awesome contest.  Support your local arcade, it is indeed an endangered species!

1 Comment »

  1. I was visiting Idaho City, and in the center of town, on a large parking lot, was a massive display of arcade games. Of all the odd places to come across a cache of these beauties! No one was around. One sign
    said 50.00 each. If I could have fit one in my spyder, I would have!
    But we were just driving through.

    Comment by Heinrich — August 31, 2010 @ 10:05 am

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