I’m pleased to announce our new look surface tension website! www.surface-tension.net. Since we started Industry Standard Ltd to develop our love of arcade games and machines into a fully fledged contemporary furniture business we’ve been on an awesome journey.
I haven’t made it to this as yet but will certainly be heading over there before the year is out.
Explore the history, technology and culture of computer games in this new special exhibition. From the PDP-1 of the 1960s to the latest consoles, Game On examines the technologies that have revolutionised the gaming world. See the ten most influential consoles of all time, learn about the design process behind games such as Tomb Raider, investigate the relationship between films and gaming and play over 100 games including classics Space Invaders and Super Mario Brothers!
Prices: £8.50 adult, £6.50 child/concession.
Pong!
Make sure you play car pong too. I only managed a measly score of 112, which I thought was pretty good until I saw the leader board!
There are a few arcade tables on the market in the UK and each of them have their good, and inevitably, bad points.
The Lounge Lizard Arcade Table is the first one I generally come across when I look on the net for arcade tables. It’s sold through www.iwantoneofthose.com and similar sites and as a result has become pretty exposed. It sure looks like a great arcade table harking back to the original tables of the 80’s.
No, that’s not my attempt at a geordie accent…
Here at surface tension we love iTunes. You might even go so far as to say we’ve developed a bit of an obsession with apple’s wireless technology and the software used to drive it.
Back in the day when the first arcade table prototype was put together ideas were flooding into my head about how I could make the most of the technology concealed within the unit. (more…)