Weekend Thrifting: Hitting the Vectrex Jackpot
This week’s thrifting adventures happened mostly by proxy. In the middle of recording another exciting installment of Game|Life The Video, I got a rare midday phone call from my parents in Connecticut....
View ArticleAtari in Japan: Akihabara’s Classic American Game Machines
TOKYO — The days before the launch of the Family Computer in 1983 must have been seriously confusing for the first wave of Japanese gamers. Besides all of the domestic game machines that were being...
View ArticleAkihabara Buys: Laseractive, Vectrex and Master Fighter II
I bought things in Japan. Duh. When I go digging through thrift stores in San Francisco, I only occasionally find some piece of old videogame history that I want to buy. Going to Akihabara is the exact...
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