Links to the Past: Star Tours, Arcades, and Apocalipstix

Links to the Past: Star Tours, Arcades, and Apocalipstix

Jun 13

A few relatively random links that have been gathering dust in my mailbox:

* We may finally have a new ride movie for Star Tours at Disneyland. I hope it involves Lucas chasing $100 bills.

* A great story from the Chicago Tribune on the closing of one of the oldest arcades in the region. I don’t remember this one in particular, but I was an occasional visitor to Friar Tuck’s in Calumet City, and our local Showbiz Pizza was of course a frequent favorite spot, back in the day when pizza arcades had mostly video games, and not ride-on toys and plastic ball pits.

There was also this fantastic arcade someplace in the northwestern suburbs where you could pay like $5 to get in, and play row after row of vintage arcade games for free. Maybe this is the arcade of which they write? Perhaps that place is long-since dead as well? I only made it up there a handful of times in college, but man, it was a trip.

* Cameron Stewart’s new graphic novel from Oni, The Apocalipstix (with writer Ray Fawkes), looks right up my alley.