Category Archives: video games

Reclaim Arcade’s Friday Fun

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Reverend

Each Friday we will be featuring a game from our collection with some interesting facts. Today we kick it off with Missile Command! Developed in 1980 by Atari this game features trackball play while firing missiles from 3 different base … Continue reading →

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A Banner Week for Reclaim Arcade

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Reverend

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3nOQpng6o3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Things are starting to get real around the push for Reclaim Arcade, I mean Timmmmyboy is producing marketing material, we’re both deep in the budget spreadsheets, and the OG arcade cabinets are flowing like wine in Trentino on a … Continue reading →

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Playing with Paperspace

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Reverend

While I was back in Fredericksburg earlier this month Tim was exploring how to run a gaming machine in the cloud. As crazy as it seems, it is now possible. The reason behind the search was to explore setting up … Continue reading →

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Retrofitting Popeye for the Web

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Reverend

When I was stateside last month Tim was talking to me about a couple of his arcade game projects—he is always working on something cool. The one I won’t talk about here is pretty wild, it basically allows you to … Continue reading →

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Pac-Man at 39

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Reverend

I mentioned as much on Instagram a few days ago, but May 22nd marked the 39th birthday of Pac-Man, which was released on that day in Japan but would not hit North American until October of 1980. What’s wild is … Continue reading →

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Reclaim Arcade: Free Play All Day!

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Reverend

That’s right, it has gotten to a point where we can soon start referring to our growing collection of cabinet video games as a bonafide arcade thanks to Tim’s weekend binge collector’s road trip. We have 11 operational cabinets at … Continue reading →

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VR or, how Tommaso became Beat Saber Boy

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Reverend

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvRGmbelZUY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link A couple of years back now—Christmas 2016 to be precise—we got the Virtual Reality headset for the PS4. I was pretty fired up about the idea of a new form of gaming coming to the living room (kinda like … Continue reading →

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Joust: Thy Game has Just Begun!

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Reverend

While I was back in the States Tim surprised me with a recent purchase for Reclaim Video’s growing arcade. One of my very favorite stand-up arcade games of the early 80s: Joust (1982). It’s SO BEAUTIFUL!!! And despite what Downes … Continue reading →

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Building a Line Wobbler Clone with Twang

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Reverend

In my previous post I wrote about being transfixed by the Line Wobbler at the Video Games exhibit that runs through February at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.  In this follow-up I’m going to try and document how Tim, … Continue reading →

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DIY Video Games at the V&A

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Reverend

Last weekend the whole family spent a few days in London and it was a blast. I’ve been to London a few times over the last two years, and I’m a big fan. We did a bunch of things, but … Continue reading →

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