Alex Handy Sez: ‘2007 California Extreme Roxx Out!’

[The fifth in a ragged series of ‘Alex Handy Sez’ missives, in which the former Game Developer editor and current Gamasutra contributor riffs on something or other, focuses on the just-concluded California Extreme retro arcade show.]
Yesterday, Travis and I went to California Extreme 2007, a celebration of arcade and pinball games. Hundreds of them, to be exact. It was a great time, though the $35 entry price was a bit higher than I’d have liked… Nonetheless, a unique experience that is not available anywhere.
We begin the Flickr tour with St. Louis, a Williams pinball machine from 1949. Probably the oldest one in the building, this machine’s flippers have their backs to each other!
There were a few other machines from this era nearby, though Orbiter 1, from 1982, was wildly different. That wacky machine had ruts and (I think) magnets, making the ball waggle all over and behave very […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (simonc) and software by Elliott Back