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link love 01-27-09

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The Offworld 20: 2008’s Best Indie and Overlooked video games. Good stuff, Offworld, your placement in my feedlist continues to improve.

Mail Order Monsters

Fond Memories: Mail Order Monsters. Levi Buchanan reminisces about the game I loved most when I was young, and one I’d love to play a part in revisiting someday. Hey holders of the keys to the Electronic Arts IP vaults, call me, let’s talk.

The Pinball Blog (now with RSS, hurray!) interviews the Pinball Hall of Fame’s Tim Arnold.

Play Meter’s 2008 State of the Arcade Industry report. What accounts for the nearly doubling of video game per-cabinet revenues, especially when compared to the static or lackluster performance in the other coin-op areas? [via Arcade Heroes]

Amazing arcade videos that are amazing.

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This one is making the rounds today; I didn’t even know Marble Madness had an ending.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYsTvS3VCYQ]

Anyway, it’s a good time to dredge up some other amazing gameplay videos. Here’s Tetris.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo]

Ikaruga, two-player mode, one guy. Insane.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToBdzV7w5Pc]

link love 01-13-08

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Back from drinking too much over CES week edition!

Zelda desktop

Orioto’s megalomaniac thread of ambitious HD remake wallpapers.

GSW interviews pinball designer Pat Lawlor, one of the few pinball designers still in the business of designing pinball games. Also neat: JAMMA 1986.

IndieGames’ Best Freeware Shoot ’em ups 2008.

With SF IV on the way, it’s time to put together an arcade stick! The question is, do I buy something, make something, or mod something?

link love 12-28-08

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New retro-indie-coinop blog Just One More Game is off to a great start. Check out his first month of great content, and add ’em to your rss reader.

Capping off the holiday season: the fascinating and sordid history of bubble lights.

Lastly, ya can’t end a year without lists. Eurogamer’s Top 50 of the 2008 and GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards are a couple worth checking out.