I meant to get to this a couple of days ago but unfortunately I’ve been a little tied up and there is a lot of news to post all of the sudden. But that’s all right, a lot of news is better than little or no news.
As you know, the Big Buck Hunter 2008 World [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Outcome from the Big Buck Hunter Pro World Championship
October 31, 2008Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2008It’s Halloween and so naturally it’s time to look for frigtening stuff. Arcades themselves have released a few games with a Halloween related theme to it (Splatterhouse, Chiller, House of the Dead, Carnevil, etc.) and here is a picture from a “pachinko graveyard” in Japan. I’m not sure if it’s real or not but it’s [...]
Interesting new augmented reality arcade game on location test in Japan
October 28, 2008Are you up for another unique game? I would be too but like usual this is only in Japan for now although it is a Sega title so perhaps there is a tiny possibility of it being seen elsewhere. The name of the game isn’t clear – the translator says it’s “Metallic-bath-and-low-preservation” which is Japanese [...]
Video footage of Sky Bandits
October 28, 2008Graffiti Entertainment, the developers behind the new Sky Bandits game for GlobalVR’s Vortek V3 system has released some videos of the new game in action. I’m not sure how other games compare on the same platform but this doesn’t look bad considering the age of the system. My distributor tells me that it can also [...]
Space Invaders art exhibits portray the story of a world invasion
October 27, 2008Video games have almost always been a great place to find inspiration for creating art and in particular classic titles from what many call the 8-bit era. Quite a few classic arcade titles feature iconic characters that show up in art today, and in this case, it’s Space Invaders related. I have heard of someone [...]
The risk of doing business and dealing with sudden problems (arcade related)
October 25, 2008One thing that is on the mind of most everyone in many countries is the state of the economy. It’s been quite a roller coaster in the States where I am; I know the other day the UK announced that it’s officially in a recession. Fortunately arcades historically do well in recessions – things were [...]
Namco sets up a Razing Storm website
October 23, 2008Among the new game revelations last month was Namco’s light-gun shooter called Razing Storm and in Japan it is going on location test and it has a website set up to describe the game in Japanese. It looks like the information provided is the same as what we saw in flyer scans from last month [...]
A little more on Castlevania: The Arcade Game
October 23, 2008It will be nice when they develop transporters – then when some new game comes out in Japan I can just head over and give it a hands-on look. Of course so can everyone else at that point but that’s OK. Here is a lucky user that got some hands-on time with Konami’s new arcade [...]
Video Review: House of the Dead 4 by Sega
October 23, 2008It’s been a little while but I found the time to do another game review, this time for Sega’s House of the Dead 4. I have been having a number of problems with the cabinet I have – from the guns to the monitors but when it doesn’t have problems it’s a great game. There [...]
Boy gets hand caught inside coin door outlet, almost loses hand
October 21, 2008In the time that I have worked in an arcade (not just my own but also another local arcade I managed a couple of years back) I have seen a few injuries where people get cut on metal edges sometimes found with certain games. But I have never heard of something like this before. A [...]
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