In Real Life

So, Some Guy Is Already Lining Up For A 3DS

The Nintendo 3DS is not released in the United States until Saturday. So lining up on the street outside a Manhattan Best Buy seems… smart? No, that’s not the word we’re looking for…


March 14, 2011
In Real Life

Chinatown Fair’s Spiritual Descendant Will Be A Different Type Of Arcade

The beloved New York City arcade Chinatown Fair closed last month after three decades; its owner, Henry Cen, will open a new arcade, but it will be in a different location, with a different focus, and evidently with fewer games.


October 5, 2010
News

Mario Used To Attack Mario’s Son

New York Republican Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino invokes a certain video game plumber in the latest flyer attack on his opponent, Democrat Andrew Cuomo, eldest son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo. See what he did there?


September 23, 2010
News

Professor Layton Covers Up New York Metro’s Sex Issue

The sharp-eyed bloggers over at Aggrogate noticed something amiss with today’s issue of freebie New York newspaper Metro. Instead of a sexy cover for the pub’s Sex Issue, the Metro was wrapped with a faux cover dedicated to the panic in London caused by puzzles.


September 12, 2010
News

Donkey Kong Columbia Prank Called Off

That student who was scheming to turn the student centre at Columbia University into the girder level of Donkey Kong ended up like the dog who caught the car. The scheme’s been called off and all donations have been refunded.


September 9, 2010
In Real Life

Turn An Ivy League Student Union Into Donkey Kong’s First Level

Lerner Hall is Columbia University’s student centre, opening in 1999. Its ramped interior, visible through the glass facade, also resembles the girder level of Donkey Kong. You see where this is headed.


August 14, 2010
In Real Life

Is This Where Missile Command Goes To Die?

There is nothing more tragic in the word of arcades than a disused classic cabinet sitting in some forgotten place as a glorified table.


August 10, 2010
News

Pinball Wizards Are Not Welcome In Beacon, New York

Fred Bobrow, owner of the Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, New York, might not look like a criminal to you, but he has broken Beacon Law, and paid the price.


April 15, 2010

Is New York Overplayed?

Apparently a lot of you are sick of playing video games in the city I live in.


March 9, 2010
In Real Life

8-Bit New York City Maps For The Metropolitan Dragon Warrior

Regular maps too informative for you? Too lacking in colourful sprites? Retro cartographer Brett Camper has devised 8-bit NYC for the gaming crowd who can’t make heads or tails of anything that doesn’t look like a Dragon Warrior map.