It is a bit too early to start our yearly “Geek Wishlist” for the Holidays, but if I were writing that column then these classic arcade machines would definitely be on the list. How would you like to play such classics as Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong, Centipede, and Space Invaders (among many others) from the comfort of your own home in the style they were meant to be played?

Arcade Classics is a company that has been making coin-operated gaming tables since the eighties and now sells them directly to the general public (and gaming enthusiasts like you and I). Their specialty is the table pictured above, which can usually be found in bars. The piece is made with furniture grade cabinet and a tempered glass top over a 21″ 15kz monitor, with four-way joysticks/buttons. You can get the gaming table as free play or have it so it accepts coins.

There are a bunch of different game options available, including the Namco 20 Year Reunion with Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, and Pac-Man, the Team Play Board with Centipede and Millipede, the Team Play 2005 re-release of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr and other packages that include such games as Dig Dug, Rally X, Qix, and Space Invaders.

The fall television season is in full swing and we have lots of casting news and the axe has fallen on the first new shows of the season. Read on…

Lets start with the breakout hit of the season, the Zooey Deschanel sitcom New Girl, after an awkward actor swap between the pilot and second episode — Lamorne Morris took over for Damon Wayans Jr who appeared in the pilot, but then his low rated series Happy Endings was surprisingly renewed which didn’t let him continue with New Girl. Not only has the series been picked up for a full season, but they just scored an awesome guest star, Zooey look-a-like Lizzy Caplan, who will be a love interest for Nick (Jake Johnson). She’ll be around for multiple episodes.

When 30 Rock returns (at some point midseason?) look for X-Men‘s Cyclops James Marsden to be appearing in at least one episode if not more. This might be the last season of the NBC comedy, with Alec Baldwin thinking about bowing out after the new season. Other announced guests for the new season include Denise Richards and Will Arnett (who might be pulling triple duty between this, his new series Up All Night, and the rumored return of Arrested Development in mini-series format).

NBC, who canceled the Playboy Club earlier, has now pulled the plug on their new comedy Free Agents, which starred Hank Azaria, Kathryn Hanh, and featured Buffy alum Anthony Head. Surprisingly the network ordered a full season for their struggling new comedy Whitney. With things not looking that promising with their new crop of shows, maybe NBC will go back on calling this season of Chuck its last? Maybe they will throw us fans a bone with a full season order (instead of just 13 episodes)? We can hope, can’t we?

Speaking about Chuck, if the casting of Mark Hamill and Carrie Anne-Moss in guest spots wasn’t cool enough, lets add comic book legend Stan Lee to the mix along with Community funny man Danny Pudi and White Collar‘s Tim DeKay. The new season begins in three weeks with a Halloween-themed episode.

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

How important is social media to your goals? Well, I guess that depends a lot on what your exact goals are. If you want a lot of people to see your movie or visit your personal filmmaker website, than social media is the key to getting people there. Check out this chart from WPromote that shows how social media has been able to be used by companies to take social action and better society:

Via: Wpromote

WPromote is a search engine marketing firm that has a good grasp on social networking and how it relates to media and getting the word out about your product (your movie on DVD? online video? merchandise to promote your movie, etc). If you can get enough followers on Twitter, or enough “likes” on Facebook, then people will see your page. They will follow your words. And ultimately, they will see your movie. The first step is signing up for all of the social networking websites. Don’t limit yourself to just one. Take small steps and go from there.