Wednesday 15 June 2011

Arcade Throwback is 1

Arcade Throwback is 1 today - hooray!

I started this blog as a labour of love. As much as I enjoy modern games and the way the the art form has progressed over the years, my heart still belongs to those arcade classics of the 80s and 90s.  So to celebrate I thought I'd make a proper logo for the blog (just as I did for Guide Writer a couple of weeks ago).  It's made up of letters from lots of different games and companies.  Can you guess them all?  Highlight the blocks to find the answers

A is from Altered Beast
R is from Ridge Racer
C is from Pac-Man
A is from Metal Slug
D is from the Data East logo
E is from  Centipede

T is from Track and Field
H is from Hang-On
R is from R-Type
O is from Arkanoid
W is from World Heroes
B is from Bubble Bobble
A is from the Sega logo
C is from Contra
K is from the original Konami logo

How did you do?  If it's anything over 10 you are truly an arcade nut.  If you got all 15 then you're some kind of walking coin-op encyclopedia.

And in case you're wondering why those particular games and companies, my choice was based on either how iconic the font was or how easy it was to extract from the rest of the logo. Lazy, eh?

MTW

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