Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Help save (another) arcade with Stride's $25,000 competition]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/21/help-save-another-arcade-with-strides-25-000-competition/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/21/help-save-another-arcade-with-strides-25-000-competition/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/21/help-save-another-arcade-with-strides-25-000-competition/#comments Last summer, Stride Gum -- which had previously promised Steve Wiebe $10,001 in quarters if he could set a new Donkey Kong hi-score record during E3 2009 -- started what it called "Save the Arcades." The campaign encouraged visitors to its website to rally behind one of three coin-op cathedrals, the winner receiving $25,000 to help it keep the arcade fire burning. Well, the competition is back, and three new arcades are vying to win the same amount: Arcade Infinity of Rowland Heights, CA; Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade of Portland, OR; and Rocky's Replay of Winter Park, FL.

The competition works like this: Visitors to the Save the Arcades site can play a re-skinned version of Robotron called Cowbots 2010 and donate their scores to one of the three arcades. The arcade with the most points as of noon EDT on June 15, 2010 gets the prize money. The only catch: In order to donate points, visitors are asked to sign up for Stride.com, thus providing details like email addresses to the company. If you don't mind receiving spam mail about bubblegum, this seems like a pretty cool way to help keep America's arcade culture alive.

[Thanks, Art!]

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Let's face it: the arcade scene in America has seen better days. The availability of peripheral-based games on home consoles and the kinetic gameplay offered by the Wii have put many arcades out of business. Stride, in its continuing efforts to gain the respect of hardcore gamers, has begun an interesting new promotion called "Help Save the Arcades." The gum company will be awarding 100,000 quarters (or $25,000) to one of four struggling arcades: Arcade UFO in Texas, StarBase Arcade in California, Game Galaxy in Tennessee or Star Worlds Arcade in Illinois. Which one of these four takes the grand prize will be determined by you, the internet.

Players will have to play a free Flash game, Zapataur, to take part in the promotion. After playing, players will be able to don points to one of the four arcades. The one with the most takes the cash -- and presumably, survives for just a little bit longer.

JoystiqStride Gum giving away $25,000 to help support struggling arcade originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We've known for a good while now that Billy Mitchell's arch enemy, Steve Wiebe (our hero!), would be competing for another Donkey Kong world record at E3. What we didn't know was that Stride Gum would be investing $10,001 in quarters -- and a year's supply of "the world's longest lasting gum" -- if the star of King of Kong can accomplish the task.

The official statement from Stride says, "Reward will be paid provided Wiebe successfully beats Billy Mitchell's current record of 1,050,200 during a single game of Donkey Kong at E3 2009." We'll be there, cheering him on and giving Walter Day high fives in the background. If we see a kill screen, we'll be sure to tell everyone that we possibly can within the immediate vicinity. Would you expect any less?

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Sometimes news comes across our digital desk that's just too odd not to pass along to you. This is just one of those stories: The makers of Stride Gum are putting 1 million packs of gum on the line to put a stop to Uwe Boll's directing career. In short, if this petition receives another 764,000 signatures or so by May 14, the company's going to give every one of the signers a free pack of gum on May 23.

Wait, this is a publicity stunt? Oh, yeah, we know. But you know what else we know? We love free gum. These are the kind of moral quandaries you get into every day as a video game blogger, but we're pretty sure we made the right call on this one.

JoystiqStride Gum pitching in to stop Uwe Boll originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 07 May 2008 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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