The development and release of Pole Position is probably worthy of an in depth deep dive for another time, so look out for that in a future post. In the meantime, I’ve come across some more extended footage of the game being constructed on Atari’s assembly lines that I wanted to share. If memory serves…

Episode 38 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: Mark Pierce was a game designer at Atari and Bally Midway. We talk to him about the protracted development of Escape From The Planet of The Robot…

Mukwonago, Wisconsin (pronounced muck‑WONN‑a‑go) isn’t the sort of place you’d expect to find one of the Midwest’s strongest arcade lineups, but that’s exactly what Vintage Vault Arcade delivers. A recent visit to Milwaukee (for the Midwest Gaming Classic event) allowed me to take some time out to find this arcade that I’d heard good things…

I’ve been meaning to share this documentary on the blog for some time. I met its creator, Max, a couple of times while visiting the Freeplay Florida event a few years back. He mentioned that he was playing around with the original source code from the Williams arcade title Sinistar and hoping to add some…

Episode 37 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: From 1975 to present day, Jack Guarnieri has seen and done it all; from servicing mechanical pinball machines in the dive bars and laundrettes of Seventies New…

Another cool video to share with you this week. This is a previously unaired interview with Atari’s Joe Robbins. Robbins was regarded as an industry stalwart. He spent more than two decades quietly becoming one of the most connected and commercially savvy figures in the U.S. coin‑op world, rising through Empire Distributing from the 1950s…

I haven’t acquired any new cabinets for some time now. In fact, I’ve thinned the herd significantly over the past couple of years, after downsizing my living arrangements. So much so, that I’m down to three key cabinets from twelve. These are ones that I really want to keep long term. You can’t take them…

Episode 36 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: Jeremy Saucier is Assistant VP at The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. Jeremy talks to us about the history and evolution of the Strong…

Note: I’ve seen some online chatter about the possibility that the footage shared in this post could be AI generated (which is pretty depressing, but here we are I suppose). I just wanted to clarify that it is not. It would be pretty daft of me to knowingly post AI generated footage on a blog…

Episode 35 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: Jeff Bell was a hardware engineer in Atari Inc’s coin-op division and officially the longest serving employee of the company; literally the last person to switch off…