TV has been doing shows about competitive gaming since capitalized on the arcade craze of the ’80s. The latest TV show to try and capture the competitive fire of high level video gaming is World Cyber Games: Ultimate Gamer on Syfy. It combines gaming challenges with Survivor-style elimination games to eventually award a $100,000 grand prize to the Ultimate Gamer.

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 »