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Steve Wiebe

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2010

    At the Video Game Hall of Fame, Where Past And Present Point, Perhaps, to the Future

    ​Ben Gold's on a plane from Iowa back to Dallas at this very moment -- a newly burnished Hall of Famer ... like Emmitt Smith, let's just say. On the other side, his final installment from his return to Ottumwa, Iowa, where not all victories are in the distant past.

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Ben Gold's in the Video Game Capital of the World With His Old Pal, the King of Kong

    ​Yesterday, legendary local video gamer Ben Gold began writing for Unfair Park about his return to Ottumwa, Iowa, home of the Twin Galaxies arcade and the place where, tomorrow night, he will be among the first class inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame. In today's installment, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Ben Gold Is Going Into Video Game Hall of Fame. And Writing About It For Unfair Park.

    Courtesy Ben GoldBen Gold and Cathy Lee Crosby ... why, why, That's Incredible!​Early last week I told you about 43-year-old Ben Gold, who, back when we were kids, was better known as "B-E-N" amongst the video-gamers who hung out at local arcades -- like the late-great Game Zone at Preston Road an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    The Gold Standard: Dallas Stargate, Millipede and Q-bert Champ Going Into Hall of Fame

    SpyHunter007Back in 1982, Ben Gold was the greatest Stargate player of all time, setting the world record in Richardson.​Thanks to this brief heads-up on the NBC5 Web site, I just spent the last little while researching Ben Gold, the local man set to be inducted into the brand-spankin'-new Interna ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    January 31, 2008

    Donkey Punch

    SpyHunter007Back in 1982, Ben Gold was the greatest Stargate player of all time, setting the world record in Richardson.​Thanks to this brief heads-up on the NBC5 Web site, I just spent the last little while researching Ben Gold, the local man set to be inducted into the brand-spankin'-new Interna ... More >>

  • Film

    August 30, 2007

    Perfect Score

    As it goes in Donkey Kong, it goes in life

  • Film

    March 22, 2007

    Moving Pictures

    AFI offers the usual slew of sympathetic losers, but a good measure of Zooey

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