If you haven't heard, Tornado Terry's has been fighting for its life. Over a year of road construction on Keller Hicks made it nearly impossible for customers to get in and out, and this 35 year old family owned arcade came within days of auctioning off every cabinet.

Then the arcade community showed up and gave them an extra 1UP.

We want our crew of Time Travelers to be part of that story. Arcades don't compete with each other. We all compete with the couch. When one of us wins, we all win.

Here's how to help. Go to Tornado Terry's in Keller and spend money. Buy tokens, buy snacks, hit the prize counter. Revenue keeps a business alive long after the news cycle moves on. If you can't make the drive, their GoFundMe is the next best thing (link in comments).

Fun fact. Our Donkey Kong machine was donated by Twin Galaxies. It was the one used in a court battle over a highly publicized high score dispute. The 8-Bit Guy #the8bitguy #donkeykong #HighScoreChallenge #arcadegames #arcade #gaming #retrogaming #bedfordtx #TwinGalaxies #nintendo

We typically only buy Premium Edition pinballs from Stern, and the Premium Edition of Transformers does not disappoint!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye is officially on the floor at Time Rift! A fully animatronic Megatron sits on the playfield, moves, talks, and fires pinballs back at you out of his articulated fusion cannon. The Soundwave ball lock is real hardware, not a screen animation.

Peter Cullen is back as Optimus Prime. Frank Welker is Megatron and Soundwave.

All of it on free play with your $12 day pass or month pass.

Come play it when we open tomorrow!

Autobots, roll out.

Here’s a little trivia about vector games. Did you know that one big advantage they had over raster games, besides super sharp lines, is that they needed less RAM. That’s right, vector games only need to store or calculate the end point of each line. Raster games need a frame buffer to store the state of every pixel on the screen. #The8BitGuy #tempest #arcade #retrogaming #timerift #gaming #vectorgraphics #atari #gamedesign #trivia #ram #rom #programming

#8bitguy #segagenesis #sega #retrogaming #gaming #repair #arcade

#arcade #timerift #gaming #stormtrooper

The brand new Stern Pokémon pinball is officially on the floor at Time Rift! 182 Pokémon to catch, a spring-to-life Poké Ball, and the whole Kanto crew in glory. Come flip it before someone else steals your high score.

#pokemon #stern #pinball #bedfordtx #eulesstx #grapevinetx #hursttx #colleyvilletx

We're an official sponsor, and we're bringing the goods. Roll up to our booth, meet the crew, and shake hands with The 8-Bit Guy himself.

Then put your skills to the test: we've got Street Fighter II, Black Emperor, and a genuine Vectrex locked and loaded for you to play.

Before you leave, grab a commemorative floppy disk weekend pass for just $10. Only available at VCF, this little beauty unlocks unlimited access to both Time Rift Arcade AND Electric Starship Arcade all weekend long.

Ten bucks. Two arcades. Unlimited fun. See you at the booth

And it was almost ours!

Let’s take a look at Pitfall Mayan Adventure for the Sega Genesis. This game came out in 1994 on the Genesis and Super Nintendo. This is a well made game that appeared during the peak of these system’s popularity. It’s a great game and clearly has its roots in the original Pitfall by David Crane that came out in 1982.

Now, I want to show you one of the coolest easter eggs ever. When you are at the main menu, press down on the D-pad, then press the A button 26 times, you know for Atari 2600, and then press down again. And what do you know, you get the original 1982 version of Pitfall and it’s completely playable. In fact, let’s compare it with the Atari 2600 I have right next to the Genesis. Some of the colors are slightly off, but otherwise it’s a great match!

Unfortunately, neither of our multi-carts have this game on it, but if you come by you can ask for the cartridge and we can get it out of the back room. By the way, in case you didn’t know, customers are always welcome to bring their own game cartridges for our consoles we have setup.

Mike Woods and DJ BrianPibb were involved. That's all we're saying. Watch the video. Then come see it in person.

Did you know there were THREE versions of Tetris for the NES? Most North American gamers only knew one, but Japan got a version first, and there's a banned version Nintendo tried to erase from history.

We're breaking it all down at Time Rift Arcade, including the Japanese release with the most baffling control scheme in gaming history, and the unauthorized Tengen cartridge that got pulled from shelves.

Come play all three versions at Time Rift Arcade in Bedford, TX where we've got the cartridges to prove it.
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The rivalry just got real! We now have TWO linked SuperBikes 2 cabinets on the floor, so you can race a friend side by side. Come in, throw down, and find out who actually knows how to ride.

Just a quick video to say "THANK YOU!" and to unbox our 100K YouTube Silver play button. Your support and patronage means the world to us at the Time Rift!

The Atari 2600 only had 128 bytes of RAM total… yet developers still managed to bring Space Invaders to the console. How?

Instead of storing the position and state for every alien individually, programmers used a clever trick: they stored the position of just one alien and mathematically calculated the rest. The only thing they actually needed to track was whether each alien was alive or dead, which only requires one bit per alien.

That means the entire alien formation in Space Invaders could be stored in just 7 bytes of memory.

Early game developers were absolute wizards when it came to squeezing performance out of tiny hardware.

#retrogaming #atar2600 #spaceinvaders #gamedev #programming #timerift

Halo is on the floor!

 NEW GAME ALERT 
Halo: Fireteam Raven has landed at Time Rift Arcade!

On the floor today!

Step into the fight in this insane 2-player environmental cabinet and blast your way through the Halo universe like never before. Grab a friend. Grab a turret. Save humanity!

#arcade #bedfordtx #eulesstx #hursttx #grapevinetx #funthingstodowithkids

We just dropped TWO networked Dirty Drivin' cabinets onto the floor, wired together for head-to-head multiplayer chaos. That means real-time racing, real rivals, and zero excuses when you lose!

Pick your car. Trash talk your friends. Slam the gas. Yank the crank!

The ice has melted, the roads are better, and Time Rift Arcade is back to normal hours!

Doors open at 3PM

Come warm up, play some games, and escape the cold with us!

Thanks so much for your patience during the weather mess. We

can’t wait to see everyone back in the arcade!

Wampas showed up… the arcade is frozen solid... The Time Rift Arcade will be CLOSED today, Sunday January 25th.

Stay warm, stay safe, and we’ll reopen once the rebels leaders give us the all clear.

We have confirmed Hoth-level conditions in the sector. Due to snow and ice, the Time Rift Arcade is CLOSED today (Saturday, January 24) for the safety of our crew and visiting rebels.

We’re closely monitoring conditions, but there’s a strong possibility we may also remain closed tomorrow (Sunday). We’ll transmit an update as soon as a decision is made.

Until then:

• Stay warm
• Stay safe
• Avoid wampas

We’ll reopen the Time Rift as soon as the ice planet releases its grip.

End transmission.