The city of Beacon, NY is going to have a public meeting to discuss a modification to their law banning pinball and arcade games from the town. The meeting will be held at 7pm on August 30th.
The dispute came to a head when noise complaints about Fred Bobrow's Retro Arcade Museum led to a landlord using an arcane law banning pinball machines to shut down the museum.
The new law would allow exemptions, by special permit, for vintage amusement devices built before 1980. It does not repeal the general ban on amusement centers on Main Street.
Do you think your X-Box 360 has 3D? Then you haven't seen Tabletop Pong. Windell from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories posted an update to a real Pong game, including video and plans. Tabletop Pong uses a real ball and real solenoid activated paddles, and looks real fun.
Last month, I presented you with a review of a new product by Legacy Engineering Group - The Classic USB Joystick Controller. Although Curt and his team have been busy over-seeing the production of this excitingly new product, I was able to get him to take a few minutes to answer a few questions that fellow retro-gamers wanted to know about him, the company and the new product, that quite simply I haven't been able to put down.
If you’re like me, you’ve bought your share of retro game bundles for the P.C. or tested the emulator scene, only to be disappointed that the games you played in your youth are not as fun when playing with a keyboard or modern joypad. Even though I had bought various bundled packages, such as The Activision Anthology, or Atari 80 Games in One, these games would wind up gathering more dust than play time as I would head back over to my faithful 2600 to get my 8 bit fix. I had pretty much written off emulators like Stella or Z26 because the nostalgic fun factor wasn’t there for me. In my mind, it was either real hardware or nothing. This was until Curt Vendel of Legacy Engineering Group contacted us at Retroblast about a new product L.E.G. had for the retro-gamers out there.
The city of Beacon, NY is going to have a public meeting to discuss a modification to their law banning pinball and arcade games from the town. The meeting will be held at 7pm on August 30th.
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