GameRoom

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

November 2008

Issue Contents:

• GameRoom's Hot Gift Guide for 2008
• Coin-Op Potpourri by Jimmy Rosen
• Marvel's Slugger, a restoration by Ed Cramer
• Pinball Expo '08, coverage by Ed Cramer and James Hills
• The Many Incarnations of... The Simpsons
• The Wayback Machine: Saying goodbye to the Garage-cade
• Tales of the Sliverball: The 4th Heartland Pinball Show
• GameRoom of the Month: Brian Saur
• GameRoom Flashback: March, 2006
• I Remember Them Well: Gottlieb's Big Casino
• The Last Word: Game Room "Engineuity"
• Auction Watch, Puzzle Page, Twin Galaxies' Scoreboards, News, and More!

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Mr. Pinball Pinball List and Price Guide, 2009 Edition

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NOW IN STOCK! A NEW PINBALL COMPENDIUM!

The Pinball Compendium: Electro-Mechanical Era

by Michael Shalhoub

The newest Pinball Compendium book from Michael Shalhoub focuses on the “Electro-mechanical” era of pinball, a time before capacitors and integrated circuits, when only solenoids and switches determined a game’s operation. Running from the 1930s through the end of the 1970s, the EM era is covered in depth in the Pinball Compendium. Even better is the in-depth look at some of the personalities and historical events which shaped pinball: innovators such as David Gottlieb, and events such as the banning of pinball in New York in the 1940s.

The book includes hundreds of photos and descriptions of games, providing an indispensable chronology of the evolution of pinball. It’s a great read and a beautiful book as well, full of great pinball photography.

The book is IN STOCK and ready for shipment. Order now holiday delivery!

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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 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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Thanks for visiting! — Kevin Steele, Editor and Publisher