Filming locations from Tron, Karate Kid and more added to historic video game listing

Aug. 25, 2011 - PRLog -- The Registry of Historic Gaming Locations has added four new California locations, each playing a role in movies and television.

The project, headed up by video gaming personality Patrick Scott Patterson, aims to help preserve the legacy of locations across the country that have had a historic impact on the video game industry and culture.  Over the past several months it has gained press from a Chicago Sun-Time publication and websites such as Kotaku and GamePro.

The website which hosts the Registry announced the new entries today with the label of "going Hollywood" due to the entertainment theme of the new entries.

The four locations posted today include:

- The Hull Building in Culver City, CA - The site of "Flynn's Arcade" in the Tron films

- 20 Grand Palace in Woodland Hills, CA - The arcade featured in the original WarGames film, now a clothing boutique

- Golf N Stuff in Norwalk, CA - The arcade visited in two scenes of the original Karate Kid movie

- KRON-TV in San Francisco, CA - Television studios where the pilot of the Starcade arcade game show was filmed in 1981.  This entry comes days before Starcade launches an online version of the classic game show.

These four entries join a short list of other historic locations in video gaming history, including the site of the first Chuck E. Cheese, the former headquarters locations of Atari and Bally Midway, the Funspot arcade and the first testing locations of Pong and Donkey Kong.

The full registry can be viewed on http://www.PatrickScottPatterson.com

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