Gamers Celebrate as A&C Games Is Reborn as A&C World
If you’ve shuffled into the basement of Union Station recently to blow off steam on play-shooting and silver balls, you've been greeted by a faceless sign and windows covered in white paper. Not a good omen, especially as arcades across North America continue to flatline. NYC’s legendary Chinatown Fair closed down, and a few years back Toronto’s own Funland came face-to-face with its kill screen.
Toronto used to be an arcade Arcadia. Quarter-munching halls lined Yonge Street like a glittery rash, Playdium's downtown hub was a light-gun mecca, and in every suburb was a bowling alley or Lazer Quest outfitted with Blitz In 1998, A&C was nothing more than your average corner convenience store, a mere wander south of Bloor at 702 Spadina Avenue, and owned by brothers Chang and Gar Wan Toy. Eight years ago the video game enthusiasts started selling used games. The small specialty overran the store faster than you can say, “Your sword is enough.” The final vestiges of the once-general store were energy drinks and cigarettes. When the last refrigerator died, A&C was reborn as a unique hub for an uncanny culture. Now, the space offers more than just games, systems, and accessories, both new and old—it has history and memories, paraphernalia from corny promotional video tapes to collectable toys that even Ebay only knows on a last-name basis. “I remember I used to go to Funland on Yonge and having that little bit of nervousness when you play against someone you don’t know, a stranger,” said Gar Wan Toy, one of A&C’s owners and curators. “But getting over that and getting to know them, it’s a really good feeling." Gar says that the idea for A&C World came up three years ago, when Chang dreamed about opening up his own arcade. When their neighbours, a karate school, decided to move, Gar and Chang took over their lease. "And, now, here we are. I would like to have an arcade set up along with the consoles, so gamers of all sorts can come in and play whatever they want.” What used to be a dojo, in the basement of A&C Games’ building, is slowly but surely stuffing itself with the desired wares and comforts of gamer life. In the first room, consoles, cables, tables, Halo , which he said he's played since he was a kid. “It has the same atmosphere a lot of gamers miss from the late 90s, early 2000s. What there was before the advent of online gaming.
Legend Of Zelda Fanart - News
In honour of “The Legend of Zelda” existing in this world for 25 years, Josh Dunbar created an amazing fan art poster to hang on your wall! (High-Res) Now available to purchase at his art blog (18″x19″ $US25
It's where you can see a decades-old Legend of Zelda board game on the shelf. It's where Gar and Chang are juggling all the possibilities of gaming life. It's giving older gamers the space they miss and younger gamers a space they'd otherwise never
I love The Legend of Zelda, but I've never even finished Twilight Princess. Maybe if it was as badass as this picture, I would've blown through that nonsense. But instead, I'm stuck with a floating goth and waggle controls. Five O'Clock Fan Art is
Neben Spielen wie The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword oder Super Mario 3DS, wird Nintendo auch die neue Heimkonsole Project Café präsentieren und damit die zahlreichen Gerüchte der letzten Wochen letztendlich aus der Welt schaffen.
Legend Zelda Deviant Art Group
I have a couple of big announcements to make in this update. First of all, the obvious one. We now have an official Deviant Art Group set up for LegendZelda.Net. We are going to be updating our Fan Art gallery a lot more here in the coming weeks as fan works will be one of our newest areas of priority. So as a response to this we went ahead and set up this Deviant Group so you can easily submit your fan art and get it published on that page and here on the site. Here is the link to our LegendZelda Deviant Group .
Next we have a huge change of direction with the site coming up soon. Everything on the site is getting a makeover. I have been working behind the scenes redoing a lot of the game guides. You may or may not have noticed this but they are getting a bit more organized and structured. The game pages are also being redone as you will see here in a short period of time. I cannot give an exact date for our overhaul but expect it within the next couple of weeks. The majority of the work is done an I am now just testing everything in beta mode so it should not be much longer.
Also, as of tomorrow at 4 AM, I will be on vacation for about 9 days. I am going down to Florida to get some rest and beach time. I will be bringing my laptop but am not sure how much I will be on. Most of my updating will most likely take place during the late evening or night since I will be spending the days on the beach. I do however plan on doing some video blogs from the beach to update our Youtube Channel with.
Lastly, I wanted to highlight a piece of fan art that was submitted by the user cfreaper2.
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