Arcade Resources
Mad Planets underlay artwork progress part 2
Soon after I got my $50 Mad Planets deal, I wasn’t sure that I was going to finish turning the underlay artwork into vectors before I picked the game up and brought it back to Indianapolis. But Rory B. stepped up, got his NOS Mad Planets Underlay scanned and sent me a copy of that scan to finish tracing the artwork when possible. (more…)
Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom CPO Reproductions
That’s a mouthful, and something you wouldn’t sit down and think “Hey, there’s a big money maker”. But that is what makes this Buck Rogers project so cool! I’ve been in touch on and off with Shaun for over a year, usually over a period like that an artwork project gets dropped and is never finished. But he got back in touch, sent me photos of the overlay and said everything is done and ready to roll if anyone else needs one. (more…)
Life in the Fast Lane – The Top 5 Arcade Racing Games of All Time
The thrill of the crowd, the rush of wind past your hair, the feel of the open race track as you speed towards victory in an electronic, pixilated version of the fastest machine on earth… check out these arcade games that were the best of all time! (more…)
Fun arcade / console game themed illustrations
I was doing some searching on Flickr about a week and a half ago for some photos of arcade machine or two and stumbled across this fun illustration of Pac-man mowing through a ghost. You haven’t seen anything quite like this before. (more…)
Arcades: Buying from a retailer vs. a fixer upper
You want to buy your first arcade game or pinball machine and you have found a vendor is selling your favorite game for a decent amount of money, something ranging from $800-$2500 or so, maybe more, maybe less. You’ve seen these same games sell for less on eBay and you’ve been monitoring Craigslist and noticed that some games there are even given away for free. I just want a working game, what are my options? We’ll touch a little bit on that in this post. (more…)
Dig Dug cabaret CPOs have started printing
Remember the Dig Dug cabaret artwork that I worked on last September? This Old Game posted an update to let us know he has started printing that limited run of overlays. (more…)
Professor Pac-man Marquee Artwork
Turning arcade artwork into an editable vector file is relaxing for me. In a time of stress, working on this artwork in Illustrator can be soothing. Such was the case over the last two weeks. After a half hour there, half hour here I have a new finished piece of artwork – the Professor Pac-man marquee artwork. (more…)
