Monthly Archives: October 2011 »
Raw Thrills’ shows Dirty Drivin’ with some changes
A little over a month ago I had the opportunity to visit Specular Interactive’s offices in Irvine, CA and I got some hands-on time with their follow-up to H2Overdrive, Dirty Drivin’. Now Raw Thrills
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Infinity Blade FX coming to Arcades; launches at Dave & Busters Oct. 28th
(Thanks to Adrenaline Amusements for the info) We heard a rumor about this a while ago on our forums but today brought confirmation that the popular iOS app by Chair and Epic Games Infinity
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10 years later, direct footage of Namco’s Star Blade Operation Blue Planet
In 2001, Namco went to the Amusement Machine Show in Japan with a new prototype game to show off in a very unusual cabinet called ORBS (pictured above). The game inside – a sequel
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Seasons Beatings Fighter Event In Ohio This Weekend + Galloping Ghost Arcade expands
This weekend in Columbus Ohio some fights are going to go down, but of the virtual kind on a number of fighter games. Players from all over the world will gather to compete on
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Toyota Makes World’s Largest UFO Catcher
How big is the craze behind Sega’s UFO Catcher in Japan? Pretty big, in more ways than one. As a part of a family promotion, Toyota created the world’s largest UFO Catcher crane this
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Actual Yahoo! Headline: “Arcades Making A Comeback”
(Thanks to Jarett for the tip!) Well this is a pleasant change – we get to discuss an article on a mainstream media site that paints modern arcades in a positive light and more
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Taito’s Densha De Go! Returns in 2012
(Via AM-Net Blog) Back in 1997, Taito released a coin-op “train simulator” video game called Densha De Go!. That basically translates to “Let’s go by train!”. It was successful enough in Japan to warrant
Read More »Stern Transformers Pinball in action
(Via ArcadeHunters on Twitter) It’s not the best video of Stern’s Transformers pinball being played but it is the first. I don’t have any commentary to add right now since it’s hard to tell
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Steve Jobs’ brief time in the arcade industry
I am sure that by now you have heard the news of Steve Jobs’ passing and with that there have been a number of articles out there covering some part of his personal history.
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Arcade Related Halloween Costumes
Now is probably a good time to get an order in for a Halloween costume if you haven’t done so already. If I ever consider it, it’s usually too late (such as a day
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Konami unveils World Soccer Winning Eleven Arcade Championship 2012
We’ve never had an abundance of soccer/football games in the arcade industry although there have been a few here and there along with a couple of series that give us something new on occasion,
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Another look at Robo Restle as it arrives for a release
So today a new film is making it’s way to theaters called “Real Steel”. I haven’t seen it yet, not sure if I will be seeing it but there are a lot of commercials
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