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California Extreme 2019: Pinball Games

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Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 15:11

I’ve written before about how limited my experiences with arcades has been, and while that’s a perennial topic with me whenever it comes up, there’s more to tell than what video games I’ve never ever played: the subject of this entry is going to be pinball, and while there are some good associations, there are also some painful ones, too.

This was the year my father passed away, and he was a pinball enthusiast.

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Atari bumper from an Atari-made pinball game.

Games Developer's Conference 2018: Expo Unpacking and Getting Cracking

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 11:01

This job involves doing strange things. My wife and I have a combined total of more than 30 years of print design experience. That means we don't know everything. Someone always knows more, and on certain matters, like, for example, electronic games, our experience is lopsided: she simply has more experience when it comes to electronic games. She's also the better gamer.

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1, 2, 3, 4, I Declare a Console War

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Monday, March 19, 2018 - 11:00

“War” is an easy metaphor often used to describe a given competition, and companies sometimes exploit our tendency to attach ourselves to tribal modes of thinking in order to move product.

In the case of a few media companies in competition with one another, war isn’t a valid metaphor, it’s marketing for invented tribes.

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