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American Classic Arcade Museum @ PAX-East
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With PAX-East just around the corner, I am proud to announce the ACAM Classic Game Developer Panel that will be taking place on Saturday, March 27th. The panel will take place in the Wyvern Theater at 7:30pm.
I have an exciting discussion planned. The panelists are former employees of General Computer Corporation in Cambridge, MA. GCC was involved in game development, and between 1981-1984, they designed products that created over $750 million in revenue for Midway and Atari. Some of those products include the Ms. Pac-Man arcade game and the hardware for the Atari 7800 console.
My panel guests are:
Steve Golson (Super Missile Attack, Crazy Otto, Ms. Pac-Man, Atari 7800)
Mike Horowitz (Crazy Otto, Ms. Pac-Man)
Jonathan Hurd (Food Fight)
Tim Hoskins (Jr. Pac-Man)
Tom Westberg (Jr. Pac-Man, Atari, other arcade)
Kevin Osborn (Atari 2600/7800 games)
We invite all PAX-East attendees to join us for a fun discussion of classic game development & history.
The American Classic Arcade Museum will be in room 310 at PAX-East. We are setting up a museum exhibit in that room that will consist of classic coin-op games & pinball machines, along with static displays of gaming history. All four of the GCC-designed arcade games (Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, Food Fight & Quantum) will be on display in our museum-style retro arcade environment. We will also have two classic laserdisc games (Dragon's Lair and Us Vs. Them) hooked up to projectors so the entire room can watch the gameplay.
The American Classic Arcade Museum is the first 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to restoring and displaying vintage coin-operated amusements. Located on the third floor of the immense Funspot Family Entertainment Super Center, the museum celebrates the origins of the arcade industry with popular games from the past. Asteroids, Pac-Man, Centipede and Gorgar are just a few of the nearly 300 games in the classic arcade museum. The museum also contains static displays of game history and the walls feature many posters of vintage arcade games.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
I have an exciting discussion planned. The panelists are former employees of General Computer Corporation in Cambridge, MA. GCC was involved in game development, and between 1981-1984, they designed products that created over $750 million in revenue for Midway and Atari. Some of those products include the Ms. Pac-Man arcade game and the hardware for the Atari 7800 console.
My panel guests are:
Steve Golson (Super Missile Attack, Crazy Otto, Ms. Pac-Man, Atari 7800)
Mike Horowitz (Crazy Otto, Ms. Pac-Man)
Jonathan Hurd (Food Fight)
Tim Hoskins (Jr. Pac-Man)
Tom Westberg (Jr. Pac-Man, Atari, other arcade)
Kevin Osborn (Atari 2600/7800 games)
We invite all PAX-East attendees to join us for a fun discussion of classic game development & history.
The American Classic Arcade Museum will be in room 310 at PAX-East. We are setting up a museum exhibit in that room that will consist of classic coin-op games & pinball machines, along with static displays of gaming history. All four of the GCC-designed arcade games (Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, Food Fight & Quantum) will be on display in our museum-style retro arcade environment. We will also have two classic laserdisc games (Dragon's Lair and Us Vs. Them) hooked up to projectors so the entire room can watch the gameplay.
The American Classic Arcade Museum is the first 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to restoring and displaying vintage coin-operated amusements. Located on the third floor of the immense Funspot Family Entertainment Super Center, the museum celebrates the origins of the arcade industry with popular games from the past. Asteroids, Pac-Man, Centipede and Gorgar are just a few of the nearly 300 games in the classic arcade museum. The museum also contains static displays of game history and the walls feature many posters of vintage arcade games.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
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I just found a great deli here in Reno yesterday with Asteroids, Dig Dug, Spy Hunter, Crystal Castles, Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac-Man, Joust, Street Fighter 2, NBA Jam, and Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones (the original, not the new Stern), and Creature From the Black Lagoon pins. They're all in IMMACULATE condition and take quarters, not tokens or cards. I'm spending way too much time there now.
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The bulk of our PAX-East exhibit is based around coin-op video games. We will only be bringing 4-6 pins. The only ones that have been confirmed are Buck Rogers, Spy Hunter & Flash.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
Ms. Pac-Man started life as Crazy Otto, an enhancement hack of Pac-Man. Developed in Massachusetts by General Computer Corporation (GCC), the game featured a number of improvements over traditional Pac-Man gameplay including randomized ghost algorithms, multiple new mazes, new music & sound, new intermissions and bonus items that float around instead of popping up in the same place.
GCC showed their game to Midway (Namco’s American distributor for Pac-Man), attempting to bluff Midway into approving the release of the enhancement kit by telling them that GCC won their lawsuit against Atari involving a similar enhancement for Missile Command. Midway had nothing in the pipeline to follow up Pac-Man, so they suggested that GCC create a true sequel to the original Pac-Man instead of an enhancement kit. The result is Ms. Pac-Man.
Crazy Otto has been in GCC's possession since 1981. It was not released in arcades and it has not been emulated. Our exhibit of Crazy Otto is a one-time showing to the public.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
Organizer of the Post-PAX Party. You should come!
Satellite Theater for life!
In addition to having copies of his books available, Leonard will be displaying a replica of Ralph Baer’s “Brown Box.” That device was the prototype that eventually led to the first home videogame console – the Magnavox Odyssey. The replica was built by Ralph Baer.
Long before there was a Sony Playstation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii, there was the Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first home videogame console. The story of videogames predates the Odyssey by six years. It begins in 1966 when a television engineer named Ralph H. Baer sat down at a New York bus station and entered history. “Videogames: In The Beginning” is Ralph H. Baer’s account of how today’s $11-billion per year videogame industry began. A meticulous note keeper, Baer presents in his own words the real story of what led to the Odyssey… and beyond.
Be sure to stop by the ACAM exhibit to meet Leonard, check out his books & see a piece of video gaming history.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
I have next game, that's my quarter on the glass.
All of the games will be set for free play.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
Our exhibit is just a small sampling of what you will find at The American Classic Arcade Museum & at Funspot. There will be plenty of photos around the PAX-East exhibit showing what the facility looks like. That should really get you interested in making a trip to our facility.
ACAM isn't far away from PAX-East -- less than a two hour drive.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
It has taken almost four months of work to get this panel assembled and I can hardly wait myself. I have conducted these panels before at other shows, but I must say that this one excites me the most. Almost all of our panelists have not done a convention before, so it will be nice to hear some fresh perspectives & stories about designing games during the arcade boom of the 80's.
There will be some additional former GCC employees in attendance that are not part of the panel. We don't have a schedule set in stone, but we expect they will be in our exhibit at several times during the day to answer questions about their games.
The reaction to Crazy Otto has been huge.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
Free play pinball? I'm there! :winky:
Someone's been reading my wish book. I used to play the silver ball all the time years ago in establishments of varying shady-ness. Playing some classic tables at PAX will be a blast.
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time.
East Coast Correspondent for 2Old2Play.com
Video:
Omega Race
Dragon's Lair
Us Vs. Them
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
Galaga
Ms. Pac-Man/Crazy Otto
Jr. Pac-Man
Quantum
Food Fight
Sinistar
Asteroids
Leprechaun
Space Invaders Deluxe
Frogger
Pong
Pooyan
Joust 2
Donkey Kong 3
Pinball:
Buck Rogers
Flash
High Speed
Spy Hunter
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
The American Classic Arcade Museum is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to preserving "classic" era arcade games. Our focus is on the "classic" period from the inception of the industry until 1987-1988. Twilight Zone was released in 1993, which is out of our area of expertise.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
Generally speaking, the "classic" era ended around that time. I would suggest reading this. It should clear up your question.
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/mission2.htm
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
Next PAX East we have to get Ben Heck to bring his Bill Paxton pinball machine.
Did you guys at the ACAM see this machine? It is uhmazing.
It may not be 'classic', but it will draw a crowd and if you feel like it you can put over in the corner away from the 'classic' machines.
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Post-1984 crash, the industry went through a lot of change. 1984-1987 was a period of industry turmoil. Many gaming companies went our of business or were swallowed up by other gaming companies. The consoles of the time (NES, etc.) started hitting their stride around 1987 and we were starting to see home consoles with games that were every bit as good as the arcade.
With home equipment equalling what could be found in the arcade, manufacturers had to make major changes in their games to keep people interested in arcade games. Manufacturers started moving away from simple, cartoony or "innocent" games that had defined video arcades for a decade. In order to make games that could not be played at home, we started to see more "simulation" style games, and more violent games like Street Fighter.
ACAM has chosen to define the end of the classic era as the period around late 1987/early 1988 when the arcade industry started to regain its footing and move into a new direction.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
Also, in the (unlikely) event some of us are high-score hunters on these games will there be any sort of way to hook a high score attempt up? (I don't count myself in this group by a long shot, but I would love to cheer on some guy going for a record, watching Weibe go after Donkey Kong last year was captivating stuff).
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I don't think the PAX-East attendees would be too happy if they could not play our games because they were taken by people trying for records.
Since we have a limited amount of space at the show (and therefore a limited amount of games) we will not be permitting any record attempts. You would be best served to attend our annual tournament for those kinds of performances.
Mike Stulir
Board of Directors
The American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot
579 Endicott Street North
Laconia, NH 03246
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
I am excited for your panel/exhibit sir. Thanks in advance.
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