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Space Invaders creator Tomohiro Nishikado talks SI, arcades and more
Space Invaders has finally gotten around to getting an Xbox Live remake and with it USA Today has done an interview with the original SI creator Tomohiro Nishikado where he discusses how he came
Read More »King of Fighters 2002 gets it's own "UM" upgrade
Back in 2007, SNK announced that they would be updating the ever popular King of Fighters ’98 using more modern technology and they released the game in ’08 with the name King of Fighters
Read More »UK to get it's first pinball museum on May 23rd – The Pinball Parlour
When I generally think of museums, I don’t always think of them as being terribly exciting (albeit they can be fascinating) but when it comes to museums based upon games, they can be both
Read More »Upcoming equipment spotlight shows by Betson
Betson Enterprises has sent us a couple of press releases detailing a couple of upcoming spotlight events for operators, the first two events will take place back-to-back in Oklahoma on May 12th and the
Read More »The home-made Dreamcast Arcade machine
Of consoles in recent memory, the Sega Dreamcast perhaps has the most arcade-to-console ports of any console in the past decade. In part this comes from the fact that Sega used Dreamcast based hardware
Read More »City eases path for an amusement park to come to North Myrtle Beach, SC
While I never have been anywhere close to Myrtle Beach, this small bit of news discussing how the city council there has eased up on zoning rules so that an amusement park can go
Read More »Move over Wii Sports – here comes Mocap Sports
While it might seem that Konami is a little late to the motion controller party, you also might recall that Konami pioneered the motion controller prior to the release of the Nintendo Wii (which has
Read More »More details on Shining Force Cross revealed
Game Watch has revealed some more juicy details on Sega’s new arcade RPG Shining Force Cross and with it my interest in the game is up but at the same time it looks like
Read More »Welcome to the wonderful world of arcade coin buckets
If you have worked at an arcade before or if you own a few cabinets then you have probably come across some interesting coin buckets before. Some are rather irritating as they can be
Read More »Check out the Game Boom
Some arcade cabinets are sturdier than others and I think that this Game Boom takes the cake. Of course it’s not really a game cabinet although I’m sure that with a little extra work
Read More »One place getting rid of an arcade machine does not mean that all games are seeing hard times
When it comes to the economy, you can’t base the performance of one game to demonstrate how it must be for all arcade games. Especially if said game is two years old and has
Read More »Terminator Salvation pinball to compliment TS Arcade?
In the very latest Stinger Report e-newsletter (which came to my e-mail after I had finished posting yesterday), we have word that Stern will create a pinball based upon Terminator Salvation later this year.
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