GameRoom

The World's Only Magazine Devoted to the Home Game Room!

August 2008

Issue Contents:

• Indiana Jones: An Interview with Designer John Borg
• Jimmy's Pop Stop: Jimmy Rosen Finds Soda in a Bottle
• NES Coffee Table: Kyle Downes' Amazing Game Furniture
• Lost Arcade Classics: Midnight Marauder
• The Wayback Machine: The Summertime Arcade Blues
• Tales of the Silverball: Indiana Jones and Shrek Pinball Reviews
• GameRoom Flashback: October, 2001
• GameRoom Reviews: Cliffy Protector's Colored Post Sleeves
• The Last Word: GameRoom Salvation, Thanks to the "Staycation"
• Auction Watch, Puzzle Page, Twin Galaxies' Scoreboards, News, and More!

NEW BOOK!

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS: Gamer's Edition 2008

The Weird, the Amazing, the Records: The Guiness Book of World Records has come out with their first annual Gamer's Edition, packed from cover to cover with gaming trivia, oddball records, and more! It's 256 full-color pages celebrating the cultural phenomena that is video gaming!

Did you know?

• The largest LAN party was 8,531 unique computers at DreamHacfk in Sweden?
• The largest voice cast for a video game was 339 actors for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas?
• The most expensive home flight simulator was built for $262,000, by Australian Matthew Sheil?
  

Find out more in the book!

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NEW BOOK!

Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records: Arcade Volume, Second Edition

Think You've Got What It Takes to be a Champion? Find out if your arcade video game or pinball scores are even in the same league as the world record holders! Twin Galaxies, the world-recognized authority on tracking video game and pinball high scores, has released a massive (737 pages!) book chronicling every arcade gaming record, on practically every arcade game ever produced.

But wait! That's not all: in addition to the exhaustive records listings, there are also hundreds of short features interspersed, each documenting a record, event, or personality involved in the ever-growing world of competitive gaming. From the unique to the amazing, if you're even remotely interested in putting your name into the history books, this is the place to start.

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NEW VIDEO!

LIFE AFTER DEATH III: Warehouse Raid

IT'S EVERY COIN-OP COLLECTOR'S DREAM: finding a warehouse full of games, with an operator just itching to sell them off at dirt-cheap prices. Join hosts Rob Craig and Steve Rothschild as they go on two warehouse raids: learn what to look for, how to approach an arcade operator, how to figure out offers, and what to take with you on the raid. It's a pinball and arcade game treasure hunt!

But wait! That's not all:

The DVD includes several bonus features:

• TILT: The Art of Pinball documentary.
• Roundtable Discussion with the pinball artists in the TILT documentary
• Tour of the Gene Cunningham Collection and Big Bang Bar
• Heartland Pinball and Arcade Supershow: The First 3 Years
• Raid commentary, deleted scenes, and more: Over three hours of content!
  

Technical specifications: 4:3 NTSC video, Dolby Digital soundtrack.

(Note to international viewers: The DVD is region-free, but is NTSC only)

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BEST SELLER!

TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball

THE SITUATION facing the pinball designers at Williams Electronic Games in 1998: come up with something new, or see the world's largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever. And Williams' designers did come up with something amazing: a brand new kind of pinball machine—"Pinball 2000"—that fused video with classic pinball gameplay, preserving what was great about pinball yet opening up all-new possibilities for a product thought to be on its last legs.

Yet soon after its successful and highly-profitable launch, Williams pulled the plug, leaving behind unanswered questions and abandoning one of the world's great design organizations. TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball is a documentary that tells the story behind one of entertainment's most mysterious failures.

• The 60-minute TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball documentary.
• The Directors' Commentary track, filled with anecdotes about the making of the film and thoughts on the pinball industry.
• Extra interview footage, videos, and more: In total...nearly eight hours of content!
  

Technical specifications: 4:3 NTSC video, Dolby 2.0 and 5.0 soundtracks.

(Note to international viewers: The DVD is region-free and the documentary itself features subtitles in English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, and Norwegian. It is NTSC only! The DVD extras are not subtitled.)

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