E3 Days of Future Past
WIth E3 2015 landing in LA this week to which I will be covering on Wednesday over on our Twitter feed.
WIth E3 2015 landing in LA this week to which I will be covering on Wednesday over on our Twitter feed.
Over the weekend the Pop Culture Maven crew set out to Banning California for the second annual Arcade Expo. The good news is that a number of the problems from the first show had been addressed and while there are still a few bumps in the road.
This week at the Los Angeles Convention Center was the annual E3 show that draws an estimated 48,900 attendees from all around the world.
SC3 is the Southern California Classic Collectors – a video game collector’s group serving the Metropolitan Los Angeles, San Diego and Inland Empire areas.
UPDATED 1/7/14 Part 2 that covers the Pinball Machines is now posted HERE I was fortunate enough today to get an early look at the Arcade Expo in Banning California that will be held on January 16-18 2015.
I am always on the lookout for arcades. There are so few around now that going to one is like taking a step back in time to when I visited local Los Angeles and Orange County arcades in the 1980’s and 1990’s before the implosion of the market in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.
UPDATED: (4/30/14) I have been back to The Last Arcade on the Planet twice from when this original story was written and Juan has done a great job of fixing the minor issues that I had with some of the machines and he has added a few new games to the mix.
On the eve of the next generation of video game systems PS4 and XBox One, I find it ironic that you can talk to most video gamers and at some point you almost always start talking about playing games on older systems.
Recent Comments