Monthly Archives: February 2009 »

With Midway bankrupt, where will that leave their arcade stuff?

Shaggy February 14, 2009 6

You have probably heard by now that Midway has gone bankrupt and they owe millions of dollars to different companies for various reasons. While Midway stopped making arcade games several years ago (and many

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Namco Bandai's AOU 2009 website

Shaggy February 14, 2009 0

A few days ago we reported that Sega and Konami had setup websites for AOU2009 and now Namco Bandai has a page dedicated to what they will be showing off at the event. In

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Article: "When the arcades lost their fire"

Shaggy February 14, 2009 2

One great thing about arcades are the memories they create. I think that all of us has a story or two from times we spent at the arcade ‘back in the day’ and the

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Namco talks about arcades, future titles

Shaggy February 14, 2009 0

Highway Games has posted an interview they had with Casey Utsunomiya of Namco Bandai Japan and they discuss Namco’s stance in the arcade industry, their thoughts on it, and future titles. It’s good to

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Dream Arcades releases the Dreamcade Impact cabinet just for fighter games

Shaggy February 12, 2009 4

Street Fighter IV will be out for the consoles in just a few short days and while you could go and buy the Mad Catz sticks to get that supposedly authentic arcade experience, the company

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IGX 2009

Twisted Supreme February 11, 2009 0

As some of you may be aware there was another show going on the same time as ATEI. IGX, which took place just around the corner from Earls Court at Hotel Ibis, has been

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ATEI 2009 Attendance Figures

Twisted Supreme February 11, 2009 0

For once attendance actually increased year on year, not much, but you got to start somewhere right? [via Coin-Op News] Combined figures for ATEI and the newly configured International Gaming Expo, incorporating ICE and

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Sega to scale back operations in Japan, arcades to be affected

Shaggy February 11, 2009 0

Many companies are scaling back in their operations right now and with some arcade companies are being affected as well. That includes Sega, which has announced that they will be “soliciting voluntary retirements” (aka trying to lay off)

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Beck's "Bad Cartridge" grooves to violent arcade games

Shaggy February 11, 2009 0

In a new music video for a song entitled “Bad Cartridge” by the band Beck, they have a tribute  to 8-bit gaming – and in a way to arcades as well. I don’t want to

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MAME4ALL ported to the GP2X Wiz

Shaggy February 11, 2009 0

While I do play video games at home as well as the arcade I admit that I’m really not up to speed on the Gp32/Gp2X/Wiz or whatever it is called exactly. I do know

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Want to own an arcade? Get one on eBay!

Shaggy February 11, 2009 0

(Thanks to Jarett Waite for the tip) I get e-mails fairly often from people looking into starting their own arcade business and I think that it’s great that so many people want to get

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Missed news: Cecropia shuts it's doors

Shaggy February 11, 2009 1

(Thanks to Jarett Waite for the tip) I should have been on top of this a while back but somehow it missed my radar until now. Cecropia, the company responsible for creating the coin-op

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