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Another location test report on DJ Max Technika + news on an iPhone version of the game

Shaggy December 9, 2008 0

Say what you will about DJ Max Technika, it certainly is generating a bit of excitement among players. This of course is why I think that there is great value in high-profile location tests

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Arcade Art – hand painted 8-bit goodness

Shaggy December 9, 2008 0

We’ve discussed arcade-related artwork before but I hadn’t thought of looking up “Arcade Art.com” before to see what would pull up. It seems like a no brainer now, but there is a website called

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Virtual-Kade opens up in Kentucky with focus on VR and exergaming

Shaggy December 8, 2008 1

We’re happy to report new of yet another new arcade facility opening it’s doors to the public, although this one is a little different as they don’t appear to have any coin-operated arcades (except

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News on Pinball Events in the UK for 2009

Shaggy December 7, 2008 0

[Thanks to Nick of ThePinballBlog for the information] If you are a pinball fan and you live in the UK then next year you’ll have a great time thanks to several events that will see some

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City in California makes a loan for new arcade/FEC to open

Shaggy December 7, 2008 0

  When I saw this news it had me a little surprised since it always seems like many cities do things to make life harder for an arcade to open these days but that

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Happy (belated) 2nd birthday for Arcade Heroes

Shaggy December 5, 2008 0

This week Arcade Heroes reached it’s second year in existence and I feel bad for missing the actual day – I thought it was today but after some checking it was actually on the

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DJ Max Technika Location Test report

Shaggy December 5, 2008 1

[Thanks to Phil Ver 0 on our forums] The new game DJ Max Technika has been testing in California and thanks to one of our readers, we have information on how that has been

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More details on Smart Industries' Battle Stations

Shaggy December 4, 2008 0

Among the many new games coming to the market that were shown at IAAPA was Battle Stations, a submarine action game that is coming to us from Smart Industries. Smart generally deals with redemption

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Three more videos from IAAPA with some arcade game footage

Shaggy December 4, 2008 0

While I had hoped for more videos of video arcades in action at IAAPA, I suppose that might have been hoping for too much since there is a lot more there than just arcades.

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Three Silver Strike Bowling players win big prizes in time for Thanksgiving

Shaggy December 3, 2008 0

This was meant to have been posted on Thanksgiving (last Thursday for the US) but I overlooked the mail then but figured that even though I’m almost a week late, it’s still worth posting.

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Southend Council blocks arcade games on pier

HeavyElectricity December 3, 2008 1

Councillors in the UK seaside town of Southend are inviting regeneration proposals for the town’s famous pier – and have ruled out arcade games as a prospect. Current indications suggest that the new development

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DJ Max Technika location testing in the US

Shaggy December 3, 2008 0

[Via Aaron Auzins of Bemanistyle.com] We heard that DJ Max Technika would be coming to the US a couple of weeks ago and we’re happy to pass along the news that the game is

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