Electro-mechanical pinball machines from the classic era of pinball. Here, left to right, we see Gottleib's Big Hit from 1975, Williams' Pat Hand from '77, and Gottleib's Sing Along from '67.
Atari vector graphics game Star Wars, released in 1983 simulates the attack on the Death Star from the final act of "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope."
According to the Killer List of Video Games, an IMDB-like site, Star Wars is considered the No. 4 most popular game of all time.
The art on the side of Joust, on this original machine developed by Williams Electronics and released in 1982, features a knight riding a flying ostrich.
As video games are rolled in on dollies, the Illinois Pinball Company from Bloomington, Ind., sets up shop, selling pinball parts, including hard to find transistors and game art.
For 10 years, this mechanical band sat at Pixar in Emeryville, Calif., in disrepair.
When a few employees banded together to revive it last year, it took a lot of work. Using Arduino, they developed a MIDI interface to control the characters, each with a separate board. It's a work in progress, but with any luck, the band will be back together this weekend.
The California Extreme pinball and arcade show started in 1997. Last year was the biggest year, with 504 machines loaded into the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara.
On Friday afternoon, the room was about half full, but filling up quickly.
