Shuggy has just inherited a huge mansion from his father with more than 100 rooms. What his father failed to mention in the will is that the mansion is full of goblins, ghouls, zombies and robots (which puts a damper on any house warming parties).

If Shuggy wants it to be livable, he has to clear all the rooms of these, er, inconveniences while also collecting the gems that are conveniently scattered around.

This weekend (July 18, 2010 to be exact) I went to a classic arcade show called California Extreme. It was a two-day event that featured hundreds of playable classic arcade and pinball games, available to play for free. This was the show’s 14th year and held in Santa Clara, California.

If you need a retro game fix and will be in Northern California around mid-July, then you may want to check out California Extreme. This show, which is in its 14th year, features hundreds of pinball machines and arcade games, all set on free play. Yes, absolutely free, so save your quarters for parking meters and laundromats.

A piece of gaming history is now officially gone as a US Bankruptcy Judge approved Midway Games’ liquidation plan May 21, 2010.

As is generally the case when companies go bankrupt, Midway’s creditors will have to settle for pennies on the dollar. Midway’s unsecured noteholders will get less than 16.5 percent of the debt owed them and unsecured credit holders will get about 25 percent.

Arcade DLX, a company that makes and sells home arcade systems, showcased it’s work at C2E2 2010 at booth 1334. If you have ever wanted to own your own arcade system, one that can house many games instead of just a few, then this is one company you’ll want to check out.

The Arcade DLX arcade machines look just like those old machines you used to stand in front of for hours at the arcade. (You probably still do!) Each system runs off of Windows XP, which means you can add as many games as will fit on the computer…

The PlayStation Home has been updated with three new spaces to new stores at the mall and more stuff than you can shake a stick at. And like a 3-year-old in the candy isle at WalMart, I’m hopped up on digital eye candy and screaming my head off for a bag of flavored treats!

Ah, nothing makes me reminisce like stand-up arcade machines. A new company is bringing back the glory days of gaming with the Retro Space Arcade Cabinet complete with old game casings, old-school joysticks, buttons and even a trackball.

The Retro Space is packed with a computer that comes preloaded with 100 licensed arcade classics and several emulators. When not gaming (*gasp*) the cabinet can be used as a jukebox for a music collection and includes 1080p playback. As for the screen, it is a 24-incher with…

Atari has been sitting pretty on top of a huge collection of fabled arcade classics, periodically releasing some of these priceless gaming masterpieces onto Xbox Live. Now its the turn of the PSP to receive its dip into Atari’s library of classic games with the Fall 2007 release for its PSP offering, Atari Classics Evolved, a compilation of short and sweet classic games.

The title will feature refurbished versions of 11 classics including: Asteroids, Millipede, Missile Command, Warlords, Tempest, Battlezone, Lunar Landers, Pong, Asteroid Deluxe, Super Breakout and Centipede. As is the norm, the arcade games will…

I recently picked up an old arcade book (Arcade Fever by John Sellers – more on that later) and it had a page dedicated to one of my favorite video game memories, the Starcade TV series. This was the first TV game show where contestants actually played video arcade games, with the team scoring the more »