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Screaming Mad George left behind exactly one video game
Paranoiascape sent a burning brain through nine levels of hell
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The Southern Fried Gameroom Expo is a reminder of what we’ve lost
Long cast as the home of hospitality, green tomatoes, and civil war memorials, the South is pushing back against a more current War of Northern Aggression. Gaming expos born north of Mason-Dixon line have prospered: Penny Arcade Expo began in 2004 outside of Bellevue, Washington before expanding to
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The art of pinball
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. INKS (iOS) BY STATE OF PLAY GAMES Pinball is something of a lost art. With the glory days of arcades and The Who’s rock opera Tommy (1969) behind us, the Pinball Wizard may appear to have lost
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Inks will turn pinball into beautiful paintings
What’s the opposite of a pinball purist? Whatever it is, that’s me. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t mind pinball as a physical table game. It’s the translation to videogames that often bores me. The effort made is usually to simulate the table experience as accurately as possible. Yawn. This is a videog
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A history of the arcade and the arcade-goer
A taxonomy of flânerie.
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Can pinball tell a story?
Two new Walking Dead machines provide a case in point.
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Rollers of the Realm accomplishes the incredibly strange thing it sets out to do
Become a real pinball wizard.
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Rollers of the Realm proves there’s still something left in RPG hybrids
Backstabbing pinballs!
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Prepare to agonize over moral choices in the Walking Dead pinball game. Yes, really
In one of the most unlikely crossovers yet, Telltale is bringing their trademark zombie apocalypse-inspired moral choices to the pinball table. You won’t just be shooting the silver ball off bumpers to crush the undead then up a ramp to load Kenny’s pickup when the game comes out later this summer.
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Las Vegas’ new king of pinball doesn’t care what you think
Next time you’re in Vegas, go where the real men play: Tim Arnold’s Pinball Hall of Fame.
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The five most essential skills to become a pinball wizard
Hold onto your plunger: Pinball, that great equalizer and last refuge from the Golden Era of Arcades, is making a comeback. The folks of Professional and Amateur Pinball Association [PAPA] might argue it’s never left us: shoved into dark corners or unfairly ignored, perhaps, but never gone completel
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Gone Baby Gone
Recycled for parts and left to sit, one arcade distributor’s old cabinets recall the shining past of coin-op gaming.