Tony    Episode 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...

Tony    Sad news to report on the blog this week. Midway’s Director of Marketing during the Golden Era of classic arcade gaming passed away on May aged . He lived out his later years in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jarocki’s influence on the industry should not be underestimated. He was the king of...

Tony    Episode 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: For this episode we speak with none other than Allan Alcorn, Atari employee number three after Nolan Bushnell and...

Tony    I recently came across a few interesting and previously unseen rejected artwork examples from the original cabinet design of Puck Man. So this week, I figured I’d do a follow up to the last blog entry about the Puck Man PCB, by sharing some of the great artwork originally created for the game’s...

Tony    years ago May to be precise , the first Puck Man machine was placed in an arcade in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, starting a worldwide global videogaming phenomenon. Today, Namco’s Pac Man remains one of the most recognisable video game characters, transcending popular culture. I won’t...

Tony    Episode 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: Senior corporate executive, serial entrepreneur, automotive designer and fine artist. Roger Hector is not only a...

Tony    I’ll start with an apology I’m rather ashamed that its taken me this long to post my review of last year’s event It completely passed me by, and its only the recent announcement of the dates, that reminded me I didn’t share this write up. So let’s put that right I’ve been flying... Read...

Tony    You may have noticed that I don’t share many repairs here on the blog. Although useful and I’m glad people do share their knowledge I think they’re pretty dry to read and I don’t tend to tackle repairs and when I do, they aren’t always successful My arcade technical expertise is rather limited...

Tony    Episode 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: Eugene Jarvis cut his teeth in the Atari pinball division before going on to produce the groundbreaking Defender for...

Tony    Some sad news to report on the blog this week. I got word that long time Industrial Designer at Atari coin operated division, Mike Jang, has passed away. I’ve known Mike since , and whilst we never met, he was always on the other end of an email answering my questions and providing really...