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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!

Happy 30th Pac Man!

21st May 2010

Well it certainly boggles the mind, the classic game of Pac Man turns 30 today.  Being one who grew up playing Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, etc in the arcades I can’t believe we are already at this point.  I want to start singing “Who knows…where the time goes…” but I digress.  Amazingly, I am also wearing my Atari shirt today.  Wrong brand, but at least right era.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary today our good friends at Google have changed their logo to a modified version of Pac Man.  The epicness of this is that the logo is actually playable after you press “Insert Coin” under the search bar.  There goes the rest of my day…

Happy birthday Pac Man!  You have been a good friend over the years.

Love,

– ben
UPDATE:  You can still play the logo, forevermore: http://www.google.com/pacman/

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