Brokentoken - Arcade Blog

Lonnie McDonald makes some history in Louisville

Whitney Roberts — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:58:52 +0000

Lonnie McDonald's Joust Tour stops in Louisville KY as he posts another 10 million point score at Zanzabar.

Retro Spotlight : ArcadeRx & The Louisville Arcade Expo

Whitney Roberts — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:43:00 +0000

Brokentoken gets the chance to sit down and talk shop with the guys behind the Louisville Arcade Expo and find out what they collect, what they play and what it takes to make the expo a success every year.

Louisville Arcade Expo 2012 – Here’s all you need to know…

Whitney Roberts — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:12:00 +0000

The 2012 Louisville Arcade Expo promises to be bigger and better in every way. Details about the improvements to this year's expo and complete show information is inside.

This is what makes this hobby fun

Whitney Roberts — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:13:00 +0000

Random meet-ups are the best. Zanzabar once again plays host to a few collectors meeting up on Thursday night... hopefully it could become a semi-regular gig.

Game Galaxy Retro Arcade Museum Grand Opening!

Whitney Roberts — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:31:56 +0000

BrokenToken is on the scene for the grand opening of the Game Galaxy Museum. We give the place a once-through and show you what all is up for play both at the museum and at the Game Galaxy Arcade. It was a great day with lots of the favorites available as well as rare and semi-rare titles (and pins!!) out for your enjoyment.

Silkscreened Burgertime Glass Bezels – ready for pre-order!

Whitney Roberts — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:35:20 +0000

Preorder your Burgertime silkscreened glass bezel and get it while you can!

Support March of Dimes, Win Cool Gameroom Stuff!

Whitney Roberts — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:35:03 +0000

Every year, half a million babies in the U.S. are born prematurely. Premature birth is the leading cause of newborn death and many life long disabilities. However, March of Dimes is an organization determined to prevent this problem and save young lives. KLOV user Dean Ayer (aka Herbertsmart) has [...]

A little spring cleaning and a new sponsor!

Whitney Roberts — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:41:34 +0000

Quick update for today, but I wanted to alert all visitors that the site just went live with a brand-new theme that I’ve been working on for quite some time now. I also upgraded the site to WordPress 3.11, implemented native menus and re-worked some of the plug-ins (got rid of a bunch of redundancy [...]

Recap – Louisville Arcade Expo (2011)

Whitney Roberts — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:01:34 +0000

Recount of the 2011 Louisville Arcade Expo that took place this past weekend. If you didn't get a chance to check it out, this may be the next best thing to having been there!

Courier Journal dishes good on the Louisville Arcade Expo!

Whitney Roberts — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:26:19 +0000

Quick update today, as I’m still working on a few other posts – our own local Courier Journal posted a very in-depth and positive article on the Louisville Arcade Expo and the three guys ‘behind-the-scenes’ making it all happen. It’s a great read and well-worth checking out! Trio stand ready to [...]

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

Whitney Roberts — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:47:02 +0000

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 [...]

Louisville Arcade Expo 2011!

Whitney Roberts — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 02:52:27 +0000

March 4-6, 2011 is the Louisville Arcade Expo. Go to www.arcaderx.com for more information. Looks like it's shaping up to be a blast (from the past)!ghu

Zanzabar is a ‘KY treat’!

Whitney Roberts — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:05:36 +0000

Zanzabar is one of the few places in KY you can go to play a good selection of classic arcade games. Check it out - good food, atmosphere and title rotation!

One (opcode) cache to rule them all?

Whitney Roberts — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:02:17 +0000

Details the lessons learned trying to get PHP opcode caches working with IIS and PHP (via FastCGI). In the end, there was only one cache that worked reliably and consistently - Wincache.

It’s a Kong Off, baby!

Whitney Roberts — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:37:05 +0000

Richie Knucklez is hosting the "Kong Off" at his arcade in NJ. It's on like Donkey Kong!

PHP Manager is a must-have for all WordPress on IIS installations

Whitney Roberts — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:19:28 +0000

I ran across this – PHP Manager – a bit ago and installed the tool here on the site to see if it would work as well as the screen shots on codeplex seemed to promise. Historically being a .NET guy, I feel that my PHP optimization skills are still a bit to be desired, so I wasn’t surprised at all [...]

Brokentoken Redux…part 1

Whitney Roberts — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:11:03 +0000

It’s been a long while since I’ve updated anything here on the site and although I’ve been busy behind the scenes staying active in the collecting part of the arcadehobby and non-hobby life and all the crazy stuff that goes on with home ownership, etc., I’m getting back into the swing of things [...]

Nintendo buttons (repro) available again at Mike’s Arcade

Whitney Roberts — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:44:11 +0000

If you are needing the ever-elusive blue and orange Nintendo leaf buttons for your restoration project, then head on over to Mike’s Arcade to pick up the buttons as they are available for order at this time. Also note that the control panel bolt kits are also available for order… no telling how [...]

KY/Southern IN Arcade meet up – October 3rd 2009!

Whitney Roberts — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:48:16 +0000

There's going to be a local (to KY and Southern IN) Arcade collectors meet up on Saturday October 3rd, 2009! Details within...

Fix for HTTP error 500/XMLRPC issue when publishing via Live Writer and the post has embedded images

Whitney Roberts — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:43:54 +0000

Whew – long title I know, but it’s what I started running into when attempting to upload a post to brokentoken via Windows Live Writer (WLW). I’m still trying to determine whether or not I’m going to stick with/ WLW for post composition or use WordPress’ built in editor – I’m split 50/50 on it [...]

Setting up WordPress on Windows XP to use IIS 5.1

Whitney Roberts — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:19:17 +0000

I recently built a Windows XP virtual machine with the intention of doing wordpress theme development and testing on it. Getting WordPress up and running normally requires running Apache, MySQL and the wordpress binaries, but instead of running Apache, I wanted to use the version of IIS included in [...]