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  • Swine flu…not a gamer’s best friend

    Swine flu…not a gamer’s best friend

    Some time around last Thursday I must have come into contact with an Infected. I’m pretty sure I know who it was and where it was, but I guess you can never be sure. Either way, by Friday I was doubled over and clutching cold...

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  • Welcome, APB! Another arcade joins the game room (with pics)

    Welcome, APB! Another arcade joins the game room (with pics)

    Today my wife (who is 8 months pregnant), my dog, and I headed up to Nampa, Idaho (about 15 minutes east of Boise) to pick up an APB arcade game from a fellow KLOV/BYOAC member, FrizzleFried. Boise is about a 5 hour drive from here,...

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  • Vacation time!

    Vacation time!

    Hey everybody, I’ll be out of town and away from the Internet until August 18th. Where am I going? I can’t say. I’ll be in Alaska, catching some poor and defenseless fishies.

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  • An arcade miracle…a Spy Hunter homecoming

    An arcade miracle…a Spy Hunter homecoming

    Back in the early 90s, my cousin and I used to ride our bikes to this Fred Meyer department store in Bountiful, Utah each Saturday. We did so to check out the new comics and to play the 7-8 arcade games that they had in...

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  • Stupid Gamer not dead

    Stupid Gamer not dead

    Yeah, so I’m back from vacation in Hawaii. My real job is consuming all my free time right now, so updates will start again soon. Rock! UNSEXY EDIT (a pic):

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  • The Sundance Rock Band event was a blast

    The Sundance Rock Band event was a blast

    I was at a Rock Band event last night at Sundance and they had the wireless guitars there. They played pretty much like the ones now, but, well, wireless. They still use the leaf switches (no clicky), but they felt a lot more responsive. To...

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  • Get Well Soon, Stephen!

    Get Well Soon, Stephen!

    Stephen Smith, a regular contributor to the Stupid Gamer team, underwent open heart surgery yesterday to repair an aortic dissection. Steve will be hospitalized for two weeks and then will spend the next six weeks in recovery at home. Obviously we look after our own,...

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  • The Arcade is looking good!

    The Arcade is looking good!

    So the wife and I moved into a new home last week and one of the first things we got set up was our home arcade. For the past 6 months or so I’ve been collecting, fixing, and selling arcades, but the only place I...

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  • I survived the Halo 3 launch

    I survived the Halo 3 launch

    With the Halo theme coming at me from two angles (a car playing the OST loudly and a goofball strumming it out on a guitar) and a crowd of about 350 people strong surrounding me, I stood outside my local Gamestop last night and waited...

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  • The Stupid Gamer Obituary Section

    The Stupid Gamer Obituary Section

    Xbox 360, Xbox (Age 16 months) On Sunday, August 5, 2007 of Bountiful, UT; beloved console of Jeff Rivera; rival of Wii and PS3; successor to Xbox; all of Bountiful, UT. Microsoft will receive notification of dead 360 on Monday. A closed casket burial will...

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