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Philip Fokker
Meet the real Fokker
Philip Vincent Fokker (Den Haag 1977) schrijft en werkt in Amsterdam. Hij publiceerde onder andere artikelen en poëzie in Deus Ex Machina, Hard Gras, The HTV, TAG magazine, Reload, Connexie
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Bonami SpelcomputerMuseum
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Rolling Thunder, Atari, 1986
A secret agent must rescue his partner from the claws of a terrorist organisation. Rolling Thunder is a horizontal scrolling shooter, and can be situated somewhere between classics like Shinobi and...
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Galaga, Namco, 1981
Evil comes from above
The shooter Galaga is a successor of Galaxian. The player's spaceship moves from left to right at the bottom of the screen. Just like in Space Invaders, evil comes from above: the extraterrestrial...
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Ms. Pac-Man, Midway, 1981
Perhaps the most simple and effective sequel ever. The design and drawings featuring on the oldest Ms. Pac-Man coin-ops are hand-painted. Later they switched to stickers, which wrongfully spread the...
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Bliep...I see you
Het is wat het is
I make videogames for a living and currently are studying at the Utrecht School of Art and Technology, getting my bachelor in Game Design and Development in 2012. But when I don't make videogames, I...
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Alexander Krone
Kunstenaar en game liefhebber
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Arcade Collection
Arcade is an expanding collection of games
Arcade will grow into a collection of interactive installations, video arcade machines, all-generation consoles, handhelds and mobile games. The opening of Level 3: Consoles is on January 22nd.
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5 dilemma's
Leuke touchscreen applicaties voor het Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum
http://www.streeff.nl/entry/48/laatste-waarschuwing
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Level 2: Arcade
Coin swallowing amusement machines
Mortal Kombat, Jet Rocket, Badlands and more. This page offers you an overview of the video arcade machines in our collection.
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Badlands, Atari, 1989
A post-apocalyptic racing game
Badlands must be one of the most fun racing games out there. The two steering wheels offer such nice game play that it's hard for anyone not to get swept up in the race. Not only do you race each...
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NBA Jam, Midway games, 1993
NBA Jam changed the face of basketbal forever.
Until NBA Jam was released, basketball games were really only for the true enthusiast. After all, everything you could do on screen, you could do in real life as well. However, after 1993 basketball...
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Daytona USA, SEGA, 1994
Popular racing game
The high quality of the graphics and the possibility to set up eight machines next to each other makes Daytona USA the most profit-generating coin-op worldwide. The player sits in a tub-like seat in...
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Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…
Extremely addictive
The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly addictive...
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Dancing Stage, Konami, 1999
Dance till you drop
In 1999 Konami released the first "Dancing Stage" in Europe. In Japan, where the game had been introduced a year earlier, it went by the name of "Dance Dance Revolution". Since then, clones have been...
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Virtua Fighter, Sega, 1993
Eerste vechtspel dat gebruik maakte van volledige 3D polygon graphics
Na het succes en de ophef rondom Mortal Kombat moeten de mensen bij Sega gedacht hebben dat ook zij snel een nieuw vechtspel op de markt moest brengen. In 1993 stonden de Mortal Kombat en Virtua...
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Mortal Kombat, Midway, 1992
So real it hurts!
The flyer for Mortal Kombat sported the daunting but promising text “So real it hurts!” The digital graphics combined with the rampant, bloody scenes turned Mortal Kombat into one of the most popular...
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Time Crisis, Namco, 1996
De tijd tikt door
In Time Crisis schiet de speler met een light gun op het beeldscherm. De kast heeft ook een pedaal waarmee kan worden herladen en dekking gezocht. Net als bij Virtua Cop en The House of the Dead...
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Vanguard, Tose, 1981
Eerste scrolling shooter
De shoot ‘em up Vanguard is de een voorvader van latere hits als Gradius en R-Type. Vanguard was de eerste scrolling shooter waarbij in vier verschillende richtingen geschoten kan worden. Ook het...
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Hyper Sports, Konami, 1984
Olympic athlete of stature
Pushing buttons or rolling the trackball as quick as possible, in Hyper Sports (the follow-up of the slightly more popular Track & Field) the player slips into a high class olympic athlete. On this...
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Up Scope, Grand Products, 1986
Shooting torpedoes
Similar to the Jet Rocket from 1970, this arcade game immediately stands out. No big screen or joystick but a small window and two handles mounted on a periscope. The mission can't be more simple:...
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Donkey Kong Jr.
Nintendo, 1982
Nadat de Italiaanse loodgieter in 1981 Donkey Kong had overwonnen en hiervoor zijn liefje terug kreeg bleek een jaar later wat er met de Gorilla uit het spel was gebeurd. Donkey Kong werd in een kooi...
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Puckman, Namco, 1979
Japanse versie van Pac-Man
Voor westerse gamers klinkt Puckman als een goedkope rip off uit Azië, zoals Laboste, Addadis of Mike. Puckman is echter de originele Japanse versie van Pac-Man, het spel waar ook nu nog de meeste...
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Badlands, Konami, 1984
Avontuur in het Wilde Westen
Een game die speelt als een tekenfilm, een avontuur in het Wilde Westen waarbij heel veel verschillende vijanden moeten worden afgeknald. Klinkt als: Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption maar toen tieners...