Interviews

Lonnie McDonald makes some history in Louisville

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December 29, 2011
by Whitney Roberts in

lonniemcdonald-joust-zanzabar-16Lonnie McDonald was recently in Louisville to promote the latest leg in his journey to score 10,000,000 points on every upright Joust machine listed in the Aurcade game tracking database.  I was fortunate enough to be onsite the night that Lonnie was at Louisville’s Zanzabar and was able to spend a little time talking to him before he settled in to begin the process of posting another 10 mil’ score.  Here’s what he had to say:

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Retro Spotlight : ArcadeRx & The Louisville Arcade Expo

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November 22, 2011
by Whitney Roberts in

This is the first of what I intend to be a series of “Retro Spotlight” interviews that focus on local collectors and industry alumni.

Matt Fleitz, Joe Stith and Jeremy Fleitz from The Louisville Arcade Expo. - Image courtesy of the Louisville Voice Tribune

Matt Fleitz, Joe Stith and Jeremy Fleitz from The Louisville Arcade Expo. - Image courtesy of the Louisville Voice Tribune

For the first foray into honing my interview skills, I had the pleasure of sitting down for a couple hours with brothers Jeremy & Matt Fleitz and business partner/Luigi impersonator extraordinaire, Joe Stith. These guys are the brainchild (and strong backs) behind the Louisville Arcade Expo and also own the Expo’s parent company, ArcadeRx.

The guys were very gracious to invite me over to their shop and allow me to ask those ‘hard-hitting’ retro questions that we all want answers to.

And they offered up free beer.

Between all the discussion and the shop tour, I was able to get my version of almost “20 questions” answered up..

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Post King of Kong: RetroNL interviews Steve Wiebe… twice!

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February 13, 2011
by Whitney Roberts in

Not sure how many of you are following Nintendo Life/Retro, so some of this might (will) be old news.  I’m pretty new to that site, so I’m working through some of the historical and current news they have posted there and I’m really pleased to see the coverage of the classic arcade hobby cast in a favorable (and personable) light.  One thing that I found of high interest are the interviews with Steve Wiebe.  If you are in any way remotely interested in what has happened with Steve since 2007′s King of Kong documentary, then these two interviews are well worth the time to read.

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