{"id":117,"date":"2008-05-07T18:02:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=117"},"modified":"2008-05-08T09:39:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T17:39:39","slug":"2008-asi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/05\/2008-asi\/","title":{"rendered":"Better late than never – 2008 ASI"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the weekend of March 29th, Adam and I spent a day at the Amusement Showcase International<\/a>, a coin-up vendors’ convention held here in Las Vegas. While Street Fighter IV<\/a>, the primary reason for our attendance, wasn’t anywhere to be seen, we did come across a pleasant surprise or two.<\/p>\n

\"2008<\/p>\n

Adam’s much more timely account of the event can be found on his site<\/a>, and my own assortment of ASI photos, a month after any of this may have possibly been news, after the cut.
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\"2008
\n\"2008
\nAmusement Showcase International, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Smaller shows like this are nice, the parking’s easy.<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nMarioKart Arcade GP 2<\/a>. I didn’t even know this existed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nA pretty crazy stomping game, as you can probably tell from the sweet blurs. Crush characters and score big points!<\/p>\n

\"2008
\n\"2008
\nThe remake of Midway’s 1976 Sea Wolf<\/a>, now designed as a ticket redemption game, with pretty much the same gameplay as the original. The radar ping is your aim indicator, the lights above it displaying loaded torpedo tubes.<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nParadise Lost<\/strong>, an okay Operation Wolf<\/strong>-esque<\/em> gun game. Those counters on the back of the guns were supposed to track kills, unfortunately it was only a level or two before the count went beyond two digits, rendering them useless. I was kind of afraid to take this picture, but I love it so.<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nPrimeval Hunt<\/strong>. While the concept sounds nice \u00e2\u20ac\u201c murder dinosaurs while navigating with the touch pad below \u00e2\u20ac\u201c every gun on every cabinet was horribly uncalibrated, to the point of being unplayable. <\/p>\n

\"2008
\nBlazing Angels<\/strong>, the mediocre Xbox 360 title, is now Blazing Angels<\/strong>, the mediocre arcade game!<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nGAME FEATURES INCLUDE:<\/strong> Perform loop de loops<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nAir hockey, but with a field like real hockey. Awesome idea, and fun to play, but super-dangerous. The puck was flying everywhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nThe highlight of the show for me, Stern’s Indiana Jones<\/strong> pin. Who knew the Ark of the Covenant<\/em> was filled with pinballs! The multi-ball mode in this game was insane: something like a dozen pinballs would dump out of the Ark into the playfield. Adam managed to break it, causing the machine to go bonkers until it was reset.<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nClose-up of the playfield. Embiggen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nAlso from Stern, the Family Guy<\/strong> pin. A decent machine, but the coolest part was the mini Stewie pinball machine inside in the top right corner.<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nNeat, eh? When the mode was opened, a tiny little pinball dropped, the tiny little flippers controlled with the main buttons. We were impressed, until…<\/p>\n

\"2008
\nWhat the hell? It’s the exact same board, with Shrek characters! Foul!\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the weekend of March 29th, Adam and I spent a day at the Amusement Showcase International, a coin-up vendors’ convention held here in Las Vegas. While Street Fighter IV, the primary reason for our attendance, wasn’t anywhere to be seen, we did come across a pleasant surprise or two. Adam’s much more timely account […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-las-vegas","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}