Reading Time: 2 minutes The gameplay! image via Stern Pinball Comic-Con has turned into a massive, sprawling event that occupies the hotels on either side the San Diego Convention Center. In one of them, you could find respite from the overwhelming sights, sounds, and events: The Stern Pinball Lounge. The Pinball Lounge was located on […]
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Stern Pinball just announced their next new pinball game and it’s a big one…The Beatles!
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GeekDad writers attended the 2017 Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo (SFGE) in Atlanta and share their experiences of this fun weekend of gaming.
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Good news, the arcade scene is thriving! From the Midwest Gaming Classic to arcade bars in Denver to the console scene at home, we cover it all.
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Hoarders rejoice! In this episode we’re talking collecting and discuss ten tips to get your collection under control.
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A busy summer has led to some great adventures including Gen Con 2016, Pacific Pinball, and a VHS collector’s dream come true.
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Veteran actor and ’80s movie icon Lance Guest sat down at the Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo to discuss his role as Alex Rogan in ‘The Last Starfighter.’
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For the previous two years, the Southern Fried Gameroom Expo has been an outstanding two days of classic pinball and arcade games side-by-side with modern versions of the same style games. This year, however, SFGE also introduced tabletop games to the mix, offering up 14,000 square feet of gaming tables and inviting companies such as Asmodee and Renegade Game Studios to demo their games.
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Vectrex, SFGE, a flooded basement full of games, what it takes to run an modern arcade, & more on Gameroom Junkies Podcast #61
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In an industry that produced a pinball machine for such underwhelming movies as Congo, Barb Wire, and Johnny Mnemonic, it’s almost criminal that a Ghostbusters pinball machine was never produced…until now.
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Spider-Man Pinball, Top 10 Alien Arcade Games, and tons of other gaming talk all brought to you by Wizard World Portland Comic Con & Gaming
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If you’re geeking out right now, Stern has your number. Their newly announce ‘Spider-Man’ Pinball combined with recent releases of ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘AMC’s The Walking Dead,’ and rumors of a future ‘Ghostbusters’ pinball, it appears geeks will have a tough time deciding with which game to take the plunge on first.
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The Gameroom Junkies traveled down to Orlando for IAAPA 2015 to try out the newest arcade and pinball machines on the market. In addition to interviews with Bandai Namco and Adrenaline Amusements, we hear from Stern Pinball CEO Gary Stern about ‘Game of Thrones’ and more!
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Our Halloween show isn’t very spooky, but in this episode of the podcast we do share some Halloween stories and plenty of gameroom updates to get you in the spirit. Plus: Soviet-era arcade games, Nintendo Quest, and arcade “confessions!”
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Whether you’re a fan of classic arcades, Nintendo’s ‘Mario Maker’, or ‘Game of Thrones’ pinball, there’s plenty to be excited about this month on the Gameroom Junkies podcast.
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Winter is coming, but so is the new ‘Game of Thrones’ pinball machine from Stern Pinball, Inc. Check out some of the features of this hotly-anticipated game.
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In the documentary short ‘Wizard Mode’ we see top Canadian pinball player Robert Gagno was meant to play pinball regardless of any personal challenges.
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Expert panelists from SFGE talk about first steps, programming tools of choice, overcoming challenges, and the inspiration for creating custom pinball and video games.
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YouTube celebrity John Jacobsen joins the Gameroom Junkies for another great interveiw from SFGE to talk about arcade collecting, podcasting, and more!
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Last weekend was HeroesCon in Charlotte and the Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo in Atlanta, in addition to that Saturday being Free RPG Day. I could only pick one, and I made the right choice: SFGE.
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For Father’s Day 2015, I spent a good amount of time with my family that included a nice trip to the pool on a 95+ degree day in Atlanta. But earlier that day, I spent two hours reliving some of my favorite moments from my childhood at the 2015 Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo… and it was glorious.
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There’s still time to enter to win an amazing Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo prize pack.
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The southeast is no stranger to fan conventions. We’re already home to notable fantasy, comic, and anime cons, but what you may not realize is that we also have our very own homegrown retro-gaming event.
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The Gameroom Junkies go on the road to pickup a truck full of classic arcade games, but not before talking ‘Splatoon,’ ‘KISS Pinball,’ ‘Witcher 3’ and more!
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With Stern’s new KISS pinball machine you can rock and roll all nite and party every day with this modern take on a silverball classic.
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The most popular pinball table of all time is now in digital form and available for download as part of The Pinball Arcade.
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While on vacation on the Jersey Shore, my family and I checked out the Silver Ball Museum Arcade in Asbury Park. It was clean, well-lit, and you paid $10 an hour for unlimited play on dozens and dozens of pinball machines dating from the 1930s on, and in working order!
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Rollers of the Realm is a new Steam video game by Phantom Compass that incorporates RPG elements into classic pinball play. The group has created some videos to show how the combat works.
Continue ReadingPinball Arcade modularizes video-pinball, but it’s the focus on real tables, solid physics and iPad’s big screen that is most exciting for silver ball fans. Pinball doesn’t usually translate well to a videogame. Two things are usually missed: how important …
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