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Jeff Rothe

New Members, but no new feedback - 155 views

When I post a bookmark indiviudally, my 'Bookmark' icon will either bring up past details if the bookmark is already listed....and the little book with the plus sign will be red if it is already bo...

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Jeff Rothe

Forum Update - New Links Posted - 177 views

I wasn't sure if I would have any traffic to the group or not, but I do have at least one member, so I wanted to talk a little bit about the types of links I post. I spend a lot of time organizing...

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Jamie Whitney

Noise Land Arcade - 0 views

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    My arcade blog website. General info about arcade collecting and other topics.
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    One of the great arcade blogs for repairing your games with in depth photo tutorials and information about where to buy supplies, as well as story like instructions on how to implement a repair. Not spoken like a tech head, but for those of you out there who are just repairing your first favorite arcade game like a Pac-man or Donkey Kong.
Jeff Rothe

How Protests Against Games Cause Them To Sell More Copies | Game | Life from Wired.com - 1 views

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    Death Race Dr251 In 1976, a company called Exidy released a game loosely based on the 1975 movie Death Race 2000 (Sellers 88). Death Race put the player into a car; the goal was to run over stick-figure skeletons ("gremlins," the design team called them) that ran around the racetrack. "They called them gremlins, the rest of the world thought they were stick people, real people, and the idea of the game, of course, was to kill them," said former Exidy employee Eddie Adlum (Kent 91). Death Race was the first game to raise concerns about video game violence (90). Exidy employees maintained that the objects in the game were monsters, but the stick figures were open to interpretation and many interpreted the game to be a primitive hit-and-run murder simulation. Death Race touched off a fire of controversy. It was covered in magazines such as the "National Enquirer" and "Midnight," and was criticized for being sick and morbid by the National Safety Council and NBC's "Weekend" news show. "60 Minutes" even did a show on the psychological impact of video games (Deuel). Many arcade owners simply would not buy Death Race machines because of the controversy, but Exidy still did well, selling over 1,000 machines. "The end result was that Exidy sales doubled or quadrupled," said Adlum (Kent 91). "It seemed like the more controversy…the more our sales increased," said Exidy president Pete Kauffman (92). In fact, arcade games in general actually benefited from all the coverage being given to Exidy and Death Race. "Death Race was released at a time when the arcade circuit was floundering, and everyone's machines started selling better due to the attention" (Deuel).
Jeff Rothe

whats best multi front end - 0 views

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    Links to information about hiding windows
Jeff Rothe

Rally-X Cocktail same as Pac-Man? - 0 views

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    The machine I bought may have died, but others were brought back from the brink. I recently got an empty Mad Planets upright for free, and I'm turning that one into a MAME cabinet too. The guy who gave it to me was trying to get rid of it for about a month with no takers. Who knows, it may have ended up in the dump if I didn't get it.
Jeff Rothe

webmagic.com™ Forums: Bored at work and thinking of CAX '09... - 0 views

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    Comments about the poor language and jokes made on the forum and members voicing those opinions.
Jeff Rothe

Arcade Game Over - Arcade - Pacman Repair - 0 views

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    Links to sites that talk about repairing a Pacman
Jeff Rothe

Wikipedia on the Neo Geo - AES (console) - 0 views

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    Not being an expert on gaming consoles, it wasn't until an MBA classmate told me a little bit about the Neo Geo console that I looked into the history. I am astonished for the introduction prices from these consoles and the prices they still fetch...some cartridges over $1,000.
Jeff Rothe

d e b a s e r . n e t - Quantum in GR - 0 views

  • Another project game I recently got up and running is my Atari Quantum that I picked up from the Kalamazoo warehouse in July 2003. I had to purchase a new flyback as the original red was all chewed up (darn mice) and probably dead anyways. Just when I decided to buy a new flyback, Wintron decided to quit making them. This was probably a blessing as Mark over at Cinelabs started working on building a replacement transformer that would be a drop in replacement, unlike the Wintron. It was also quite a bit cheaper. After installing the new flyback and rebuilding both the deflection board and the HV board, Quantum was alive after setting in storage since October 10th, 1988, when the monitor died (according to a note written on masking tape across the top of the machine). This was short lived as when I attempted to adjust the X size on the deflection board, two resistors went up in flames - and took out about $12 worth of parts with them. So after replacing all these parts and putting in new size pots on the deflection board, it was up and running again. I’ve been playing this game like crazy lately and it’s very addicting! My high score so far is just over 122,000. You can really rack up some points by continuing to circle the particles again and again. I rebuilt the trackball unit with new bearings, rollers and a shiny new trackball. This makes it very easy to circle those particles. I’m making it a personal goal to get at least the second highest score on Twin Galaxies. Since this is such a rare game, I don’t have alot of competition. And with my current high score, that already puts me in fourth place.
Jeff Rothe

Atari's Quantum @ Everything2.com - Information about the cabinet - 0 views

  • The game came in the same cabinet as Space Duel and Gravitar, but it was not a conversion kit. It had totally different art, and was only available in full dedicated cabinet form. Like all vector games, Quantum is very problematic, and monitor failures are very common.
Jeff Rothe

webmagic.com™ Forums: Whats the rarest piece of NOS artwork you have? - Quant... - 0 views

  • How's this for rare?http://www.lousarcade.com/fqcan you guess what it is, why it's rare and what's different about it?
Jeff Rothe

Mark Jenison's Weird Cabinet Artwork Sightings - Talks about Quantum differences - 0 views

  • Quantum front bottom art: left pyramid vs right pyramid According to a Playmeter magazine showing the promo for Quantum, the pyramid is on the right, but collectors have games where the pyramid is on the left. An issue of Atari Age also shows the pyramid on the right, leading me to believe left pyramid machines are a later version. Resource: Playmeter, Atari Age.
Jeff Rothe

Organized Mass Confusion » Documentaries - 0 views

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    Not a blog about arcade games, but owned by a guy who runs a family fun center and has interests in arcade games.
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