In the spare few minutes I had in Seattle last week, I managed to squeeze a lunch in with a friend, David Galloway. He was pretty tired and haggered. He looked like crap! (just kidding) So I figured since he is a programmer in the games industry that he was "crunching". Well he had been in crunch mode, but not for a commercial project working for The Man. He'd been thrashing to get his all new version of Mega Man for the Atari 2600 burned to a working cartridge for a display at the "I Am 8-bit" art show in LA. I think he missed the deadline, but his work has not gone un-appreciated...

Kotaku
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Nice work, David!!

In a semi-related note, I have acquired 2 arcade games from the now closed Pavilion. I have to thank Keith and Andre for the heads up on the auction. One is Tekken 2 and the other is Virtua Fighter 2. Neither booted up at first. Looks like the power supplies are dead. I managed to coax the Tekken power supply into powering up. The game is playable- but the display needs some work, there's no audio, and the kick buttons aren't hooked up. Fortunately, I snagged a working PCB and power supply off ebay for dirt cheap. The Tekken is a JAMMA cabinet which means it was probably a few other types of game over its lifetime and there's some wiring issues. The Virtua Fighter cabinet on the inside is super clean. My thought it a new power supply for it will be all it needs.

Now I just need an Xbox 360 Elite so I can play some Live Arcade games!