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Taito’s Kickthrough Racers released in Japan; coming soon everywhere else?

Taito’s Kickthrough Racers released in Japan; coming soon everywhere else?

arcadehero September 30, 2011 3

A little while back we had covered the announcement of a new scooter racing game by Taito called Kickthrough Racers. It is a spiritual sequel to another kids racer called Hopping Road, which latter

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Blazing Angels gets a new cabinet release

Blazing Angels gets a new cabinet release

arcadehero September 20, 2011 0

(Tip via The Stinger Report) In 2008 GlobalVR brought the popular console title Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII out to arcades in a deluxe sit-down cabinet. There haven’t been many entries in recent years

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JAMMA ’11: Operation GHOST; Taito TypeX3 specs; Block King

JAMMA ’11: Operation GHOST; Taito TypeX3 specs; Block King

arcadehero September 16, 2011 2

JAMMA is wrapping up and one thing that means is that more videos are now on te web of what was at the show. There was no big annoucement for some new Sega hardware

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Namco to debut Dark Escape 3D at JAMMA ’11

Namco to debut Dark Escape 3D at JAMMA ’11

arcadehero September 6, 2011 12

Next week in Japan, the JAMMA Expo will take place and with it, new games will be announced. As is typical, some of those announcements come before the show and today Namco has unveiled

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Seen at AAMA Gala 2011: Deadstorm Pirates Upright, Pac-Man Battle Royale Deluxe

Seen at AAMA Gala 2011: Deadstorm Pirates Upright, Pac-Man Battle Royale Deluxe

arcadehero August 19, 2011 9

(Thanks to Sam Ven of Namco for the pics!) The new products just keep rolling out as we get more information from what was at the AAMA Gala this week. Here is a look

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Sega shows off Operation G.H.O.S.T. for Europe & North America

Sega shows off Operation G.H.O.S.T. for Europe & North America

arcadehero August 19, 2011 4

Newsfeed 1100 via Sega’s next light-gun shooter takes us back to the popular GHOST Squad franchise with Operation G.H.O.S.T. We’ve already discussed the game a little as it’s been shown off in Japan already

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New Deal or No Deal coming + Aquarace Extreme 3D

New Deal or No Deal coming + Aquarace Extreme 3D

arcadehero August 2, 2011 5

Everyone’s favorite videmption game ever is getting a sequel. We don’t have any pics of it yet but Play Mechanix has revealed that the new version of the game is out there somewhere with

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Pac-Man Battle Royale “unboxing”

Pac-Man Battle Royale “unboxing”

arcadehero July 29, 2011 17

First unveiled in February 2010, we got the first hands-on look for it the next month at the Amusement Expo, it made a big splash at e3 2010 and finally the game was found

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Fleet Commander gives multiple touchscreens a purpose

Fleet Commander gives multiple touchscreens a purpose

arcadehero July 19, 2011 1

Newsfeed 1080 via The potential of multi-touch display technology is still in the early stages for out-of-home amusement and we certainly won’t see it tapped out anytime soon. One great example is Fleet Commander

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Namco testing out a new version of Pac-Man Battle Royale

Namco testing out a new version of Pac-Man Battle Royale

arcadehero July 18, 2011 5

Everyone’s favorite round yellow character made his return to arcades earlier this year with Pac-Man Battle Royale and while the game has been finding a home in many venues across the US and around

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The Arcade Light Switch by AlephDesign

The Arcade Light Switch by AlephDesign

arcadehero June 17, 2011 3

I’m not really up to speed on advancements in light-switch technology but everything I’ve seen at the hardware store shows that it hasn’t really changed much since it hasn’t really needed to. That’s ok

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Missing In Action: Run ‘N Gun Games

Missing In Action: Run ‘N Gun Games

arcadehero June 11, 2011 20

Given the recent slow news cycle, it’s given me some time to sit down and continue upon my editorial series I call “Missing In Action”. I take a look at a particular genre of

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