Earth Station 2 Retro Arcade

02/02/2022

Great article on arcades in the Golden Age.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-death-of-the-american-arcade-for-amusement-only?fbclid=IwAR1fA033-bohNBTY8X1grdLGYGeApxo_QBgvlDRj_TSNGlag_IUCIbqN-zw

If you’ve never been inside a "real" arcade, it could be hard to distinguish one from say, oh, a Dave & Buster’s. Authenticity is a hard nut to crack, but there are a few hallmarks of the video...

01/01/2022

08/27/2021

It is going down!

08/19/2021

https://www.vintagearcadegal.com/post/the-rising-cost-of-collecting-arcade-games?fbclid=IwAR0zPAUr6hlQgSZnvsyiyS0d4-pQrsE6XWUr8DnylqK3GhyW_9Wsw24wyOw

So… When the Heck Did These Things Get So Expensive? If you, like me, spend a good amount of time on the various arcade game collecting internet forums or Facebook collector type groups one topic seems to come up often from the mouths of long-time arcade game collectors; arcade games aren’t as c...

08/09/2021

Sorry for the language, but this is too funny not to share…

07/30/2021

Sometimes a game falls into your lap. Was at lunch in Alameda and passed a tire shop with a game sitting next to a dumpster. Stopped and asked if I could have it, they said sure but it doesn’t work. I believed them because the cabinet was pretty rough. Ten minutes later it is in the back of my SUV. Get it home and plug it in and, surprise, fires right up! So now I need to find a new cabinet for it, but still stoked to get a free working Area 51/Maximum Force shooter!

07/06/2021

Pong! Home use only since the early 70s, not an original Atari, this is a clone so not nearly as valuable but still playable and seems to be in great shape. A little warble in the Motorola CRT, but a new capacitor or two should straighten that out. Stoked to add it to the Earth Station 2 collection!

06/10/2021

Happy Father’s Day to me!

05/11/2021

Reminder for everyone to play nice

05/04/2021

May the Fourth Be With You!

04/29/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfkXoJHyKc

Music arranged by MaytreeVideo directed by Napkins music ​ ​