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Trading Card Spotlight - Kelly Tharp

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By Todd Friedman
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Kelly Tharp, who currently is displayed on card number 122, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Kelly is also featured on card 2076. Kelly Is a natural arcade champion and world record holder.  His claim to fame is how long he can play a game on single quarter.  Some arcade games he could play up to 60 hours straight. Games such as Robotron 2084, Defender, and Q-Bert.  In December of 2005, Kelly played the arcade game Tapper for over 19 hours and a score of 9,437,400. At that time is was the world record.  Everywhere game...

Trading Card Spotlight - Don Hodges

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By Todd Friedman
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Don Hodges, who currently is displayed on card number 753, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection.  Don is a classic arcade gamer who has analyzed program code for games such as Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Defen...

Trading Card Spotlight - Ken Gage

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By Todd Friedman
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Ken Gage who currently is displayed on card number 2594, from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. Ken started his gaming career on the Atari 2600. Adventure was his go-to game. He played so much, his parents...

International Video Game Hall of Fame 2020

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By Todd Friedman
The nomination forms are now live on the website and ready to submit. You can go to www.ivghof.info to place your nominations. You can nominate multiple time for multiple categories.  Nominees may be from any country and must be notable ...

Trading Card Spotlight - Robin Mihara

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By Todd Friedman
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Robin Mihara, who currently is displayed on card number 286, from the Superstars of 2012 Collection.  Robin is one of the top Tetris players in the world.  His preference is the NES version and ha...

Trading Card Spotlight - Andrew Welburn

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By Todd Friedman
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Andrew Welburn, who currently is displayed on card number 1643, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection.  Andrew has been collecting arcade games since 1997 and has been repairing very rare and undocume...
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