Here are people and places I follow, all come recommended!
My friend pindude152 is one of the best EM techs in all of Canada, and puts immense care in to bringing machines back to life. His work is awe-inspiring and his collection spans an incredible assortment of EM marvels you'll probably never find elsewhere.
Fogh Andersen - the site is in Dutch but fire up your translator because you're about to witness step-by-step restorations of some incredibly cool mechanical machines!
Nazox2016 gets mentioned a lot on this blog, almost as much as pindude152! Nazox2016 has provided an incredible service to the world, documenting and sharing information about Japanese medal machines and other EM games.
Cat Despira's Retrobitch blog should be quite familiar to anyone that has dipped into arcade game history any time over the last decade.
On しいたけと猫が好き (I like shiitake mushrooms and cats) accs2014 has been putting up scans of hotel brochures that show arcade game rooms from hotels and has been an immense resource for those of us trying to look to at the esoteric world of pre-1978 Japanese arcades.
The History of How We Play by Ethan Johnson dives deep in to the facts-based history videogames, and is everyone's first stop when compiling "lists of things popular videogame books got very wrong."
This Week In Pinball is a once-a-week antidote to spending endless hours on sites like Pinside. Nuff said.
The Arcade Blogger posts great restoration series of arcade machines, plus they also published a recent book on Missile Command!
I spend a bunch of time on Discord doing research stuff, and there are 3 I want to highlight:
- Gaming Alexandria - video + arcade game history nerds united
- For Amusement Only - the server for that EM Bingo + Pinball podcast we all know and love!
- PWN - Pinball Women & Nonbinary - a fresh-faced discord that is currently low traffic, for cis, trans, non-binary, two-spirited, and self-identified women and non-binary pinball fans
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