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JM writes "The 8th annual California Extreme arcade game show is this Saturday & Sunday, August 7-8, at the San Jose Convention Center, Parkside Hall. Having been to California Extreme [not to be confused with Classic Gaming Expo, being held in San Jose on the 21st and 22nd of August] once before, I can tell you this is a 'can't miss' event for the fan of classic arcade and pinball machines. For one weekend each year, a massive collection of rare and classic arcade and pinball machines are together in one place, all set to free play, including never before seen prototype games, rare laserdisc games, plus some additional surprises, I'm sure. This year will be the CE premiere of Greg Maletic's documentary, 'The Future of Pinball', about Williams' ultimately ill-fated Pinball 2000 machines, as well as some great speakers and events, including an Atari panel with Ed Logg and others." Any arcade show with a playable Akka Arrh is good by us.

AtariKee writes "Scott Evans (famous to video game collectors as the sole owner of Army Battlezone and two Marble Madness 2 machines) stopped out at the former Atari's Milpitas, CA facility [most recently a Midway office] and took a large collection of pictures of what was once the mighty arcade giant's headquarters." The good news is that Scott "was able to obtain and preserve the majority of what you see here."

AtariKee writes "Scott Evans (famous to video game collectors as the sole owner of Army Battlezone and two Marble Madness 2 machines) stopped out at the former Atari's Milpitas, CA facility [most recently a Midway office] and took a large collection of pictures of what was once the mighty arcade giant's headquarters." The good news is that Scott "was able to obtain and preserve the majority of what you see here."

AtariKee writes "Scott Evans (famous to video game collectors as the sole owner of Army Battlezone and two Marble Madness 2 machines) stopped out at the former Atari's Milpitas, CA facility [most recently a Midway office] and took a large collection of pictures of what was once the mighty arcade giant's headquarters." The good news is that Scott "was able to obtain and preserve the majority of what you see here."

AtariKee writes "Scott Evans (famous to video game collectors as the sole owner of Army Battlezone and two Marble Madness 2 machines) stopped out at the former Atari's Milpitas, CA facility [most recently a Midway office] and took a large collection of pictures of what was once the mighty arcade giant's headquarters." The good news is that Scott "was able to obtain and preserve the majority of what you see here."

Thanks to Chris Baker for pointing to the California Extreme 2003 site, as the San Jose 'Classic Arcade Games Show', due for the weekend of July 26th and 27th, has announced speakers, including Ed Logg and Owen Rubin on a golden-age Atari panel, and Zonn Moore of Zektor on "The Care and Feeding of Vector Monitors". As with previous years, there'll be hundreds of impossibly rare/classic games there, such as the Atari Akka Arrh prototype and the Marble Man (Marble Madness II) proto, many of which come from the SafeStuff Atari collection.

TheAlchemist writes "The Bradley Trainer was a modification to Atari's Battlezone arcade game created for the US Army to help train personel in the use of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Supposedly only two of these machines were built, and of the two only one of them is known to exist today. The latest version of the arcade enumator MAME (0.62) has support for the Bradley Trainer, which hasn't been emulated until now. Pictures and more information of the Atari Bradley Trainer be found on this site, and screenshots of it running in MAME can be found here."

Matey-O writes: "Safestuff.com contains some early information on Atari's arcade games. Internal memos, brainstorming sessions, and artist renderings that accurately predicted what arcades would look like. (Except there seems to be a LOT more women in the arcades than I seem to recall.) The artwork has been there a while, so it's archived on the wayback machine."