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Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game – Official Trailer

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The official trailer for Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game premiered today on the leading entertainment site, IGN. Watch the trailer below now!


source: IGN

Written and directed by The Bragg Brothers (Austin and Meredith Bragg), Pinball is based on the true story of Roger Sharpe, the GQ journalist and real-life pinball wizard, who in 1976 helped overturn New York City’s 35-year ban on pinball. The film’s all-star cast is led by Mike Faist (Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story), Crystal Reed (Teen Wolf, Swamp Thing), and Dennis Boutsikaris (Better Call Saul, The Bourne Legacy).

The award-winning film will be released in select theaters and on your favorite streaming platforms, including Apple TV, iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, and Google Play, beginning March 17, 2023.

Get flippin’ 😉

[press release supplied by MPI Original Films]



Exploring New York City with a Game Boy Camera

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Before digital cameras were common place, the only way you could take digital photos at an affordable price was via cheap and nasty cameras or add-on contraptions for the Game Boy.

Speaking of Nintendo’s little pocket rocket, the below photos of New York City landmarks and people were taken with a Game Boy camera back in 2000. There is a certain charm in grainy low-resolution black and white photos – heck, there are camera apps nowadays emulating this on your smartphone! We may have come a long way with camera resolution being measured in the tens of megapixels, but we still love the fuzzy feeling we get when seeing these heavily pixelated photos.

Rockefeller Plaza
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The New York Public Library
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A Giacometti statue at MOMA
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A slice of pizza
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A park bench
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Toy taxis
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A subway carriage
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A subway passenger
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A snoozing subway passenger
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A selfie, 2000 style
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source: Ironic Sans

 

Nintendo World Store Revisited

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After ausretrogamer’s glowing endorsement of the Nintendo World Store in New York City, I knew that I had to check it out and see what the big deal was all about. Once I hit the ‘Big Apple’, I knew exactly where to go.

Unlike my friend, I did not have my retro-gaming-tinted-glasses on. Don’t get me wrong, the Nintendo World Store is a magical place, especially the classic Nintendo section on the second level. I just felt that it needed more, perhaps an interactive setup of their classic gaming systems would have done the trick.

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Comparing with ausretrogamer’s Nintendo World Store photos, I noticed that there had been some changes to the classic area exhibit. Gone was the Game Boy that survived a scud missile attack in the Gulf War. The other change was to the Nintendo (video game character) franchises – they were replaced with a timeline of Nintendo’s systems. The exhibits were still quite spectacular and managed to give me a hit of nostalgia.

Can I recommend the Nintendo World Store to you? It would be remiss of me not to. It is a great place to show your children the hardware and games you grew up on and perhaps for you to reflect on a bygone era of video gaming.

For more photos of my visit to the Nintendo World Store, check out the album.

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Raven_CoatOfArmsBrant Raven
Scientist, philosopher & technologist. Science Fiction über-aficionado, retro gamer, curator & bibliographer. Creator of the Star Wars Bibliographic Database. I am also a staff writer at ausretrogamer.

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