I am pleased to announce the official launch of the newly-redesigned Atlanta Arcades website. Atlanta Arcades is a local business here in Atlanta that sells arcade games, pinball machines, jukeboxes, slot machines, and services/repairs almost all of those items as well. The rest of my website design team and myself have been diligently working on this project over the past couple of months. Now the hard work is over and, I think the site is a success!

The connection was made through Craigslist as an offer to barter website design services in trade for pinball machines or arcade games. (more…)

NoCashValue.info has teamed up with GameStencils.com to provide you, the fevered arcade hobbyist, with brand new Gunsmoke artwork for your very own restoration! Brian over at gamestencils has been great to deal with and his products are really top-notch. I know this probably isn’t a product in high-demand, but I love the fact that Game Stencils is willing to step out on a limb and carry some of the more “off-the-wall” and obscure items out there. (more…)

I posted some updates to my Gunsmoke Restoration Thread over at CoinOpSpace.com. I’ve decided on the cabinet I intend on using for the restoration along with the side art I plan on applying. Spoiler – it ain’t the art that came with the kit…it’s CUSTOM!

I’m throwing a party for local Atlanta arcade collectors July 25th. Even though I don’t (more…)

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Not that many of you care, but I am slowly rising in the page ranks of google. I now show up on the second page of google for “arcade blog” and “pinball blog”‘, page 5 for “Atlanta Arcade Games”, and page one for “Atlanta Arcade Repair”. There are many things that Google looks at when determining search ranking such as use of keywords, metatags, and description along with backwards links (people linking to you), forward links, topical validity, and updated content. You may have noticed some slight modifications since I started this site including the “about” section in the sidebar and thought they were superfluous, but they actually help in search engine placement. In fact this post is probably helping me rise as I type. (more…)

As those of you who follow my site have probably noticed, I designed a new header. The header is using artwork from my original “Holy Grail” of arcade games – Galaga. I altered the colors to reflect the rest of the site’s theme and added some swooping ships along with the use of a cool photoshop brush to give the “ray” effect.

Once I made the graphic for nocashvalue.info, I slightly modified it to use as the header of my personal profile on coinopspace.com . Coin Op Space is a up-and-coming social network for arcade game enthusiasts that blows current forums and newsgroups out of the water. Advantages to coinopspace.com include personal profiles that let you edit appearance, add videos, photos, and blogs. You can subscribe to posts or groups using RSS feeds and can even integrate your own content from a blog onto your profile. Like myspace, you can add music, gather friends, and send messages.

In addition to the new graphic, I was able to edit the CSS code to change text colors, hide unwanted text, and adjust background images and mouseover effects. While I was there, I added a new group for collectors and enthusiasts of Playchoice 10. Won’t you check out the discussion that’s going on at CoinOpSpace? See you there!

This is part 2 in an ongoing series dedicated to the documentation of my warehouse raid in October, 2008. Read Part 1 HERE.

When we opened the door, the first thing I noticed was the smell! (more…)

Since there seems to be a shortage of classic arcade t-shirts despite the large demand from my generation, I decided to take matters into my own hands. Although I am a traditionally trained artist and design websites for a living, I just sketched out my concept and took them to my graphic designer on staff at my company and had him work up the concept in  illustrator. The joke being a twist on the hip-hop phrase “Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy.”

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