Gonna be on Channel 9 News (Denver) Tonight.

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Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I will be featured on Channel 9 News tonight at 10pm. Its a 3 minute feature on my gameroom, pinball & video games.

I will try to post the video tomorrow on youtube.

Jon
 
So are your Colorado neighbors or the city trying to kick you out now too? Poor Jon can't get any love. :D I still can't believe the crap you had to deal with in FL, but then again.....it's FLORIDA.
 
Very cool! Looking forward to seeing that one. Just remember to smile, don't pick your nose, and fiddling with your nads is strctly prohibited on national TV.

However, nipple rings and wardrobe malfunctions are cool!
 
Can't wait to see it. Hope they use Pac Man Fever as a theme song. That would be so original.

Are there any other arcade songs they could use?

- M1A
 
Definitely try to post a link. This is the 2nd time right? I'm hoping this one isn't about the city trying to shut you down. :)
 
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I will be featured on Channel 9 News tonight at 10pm. Its a 3 minute feature on my gameroom, pinball & video games.

I will try to post the video tomorrow on youtube.

Jon

"Everyone look at me and my huge collection of video games."

Jerkoff! :) I wish I still had a friggin basement!!!!

Matt
 
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PARKER - Jon Jamshid has a secret. For the past 11 years, he's been stockpiling old arcade games devouring floor space in his home.
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"The only neighbors that know are the ones right here on the corner," said Jamshid, a video game collector.

He owns 56 stand-up style arcade games. Some were built in 1978, but most are from the 1980s. His collection includes titles such as: Adventure, Pepper II, Astro Blaster, Star Wars, Q-Bert, Pengo, Spy Hunter, and Kickman.

"I think it's a way to capture my youth, I guess," Jamshid said. "All of a sudden it dawned on me that there are no more classic games, you know. What happened to them all?"

Jamshid invites his friends over to play any game free of charge. They say they appreciate experience of playing to the older games.

"It's the whole body experience," said Steve MacDonald, a friend. "It's the fact that you're not sitting on the couch with two thumbs [working a controller]."

Jamshid's wife Jenny doesn't play video games that often, but she puts up with her husband's collection because it's his dream.

"The only thing that concerns me is the games are so big and they're heavy and I just don't want him to hurt himself when he's moving everything around," Jenny Jamshid said. "What am I gonna say? It doesn't hurt anybody. He enjoys playing them. [Our] kids like it. It's kinda cool. Everybody's all excited about it."

Jon Jamshid says he supports his habit by "flipping" games. He repairs some arcade machines and re-sells them to pay for other games he wants to keep. He has provided games for movie shoots and his hobby will be highlighted in an upcoming documentary.

Jamshid, who is known in the video game collector's world as "Exidy," estimates he has one of the top five biggest collections of arcade machines in the country.

"We try to keep it under wraps a little bit or else we would have probably 40 kids over here every day after school," Jenny Jamshid said.
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