In the time that I have worked in an arcade (not just my own but also another local arcade I managed a couple of years back) I have seen a few injuries where people get cut on metal edges sometimes found with certain games. But I have never heard of something like this before. A [...]
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Boy gets hand caught inside coin door outlet, almost loses hand
October 21, 2008Continuing on the violent games debate…
April 4, 2008A little while ago I brought up the always fun debate about violent video games in a post briefly discussing some laws that were being looked at by certain local governments in the US and of course we discussed violent arcade games. Arcades have been largely ignored in this debate in recent years since there [...]
“I Hunger!” - The Sinistar Cake
January 22, 2008(Click on the image to enlarge)
We’ve seen all sorts of video gamed themed cakes out there, especially ones based on well-known mainstream characters like Pac-Man, Mario, Sonic, Master Chief and others but when I saw this Sinistar cake I couldn’t resist. For the uninitiated, Sinistar is the juggernaut villain of the classic arcade game that [...]
Pac Man Carpet
August 31, 2007
[Via The Stinger Report]
Here is something that would be great for a game room - carpet with a Pac Man maze design weaved into it. It seriously would be a good contender against some of the black light carpet I have looked at before. If it weren’t priced so high of course.
The design looks like [...]
No arcade love during e3
July 11, 2007Here is something I would like to express my feelings about. The utterly barren wasteland that is news and attention when it comes to coin-operated video games during e3. It is true that there are two big events for arcades each year, AOU and ATEI but these pale in comparison to the amount of attention [...]
Kevin Williams: Arcade Guru
June 21, 2007SPoNG.com has an interview up with one of our good partners, Kevin Williams. The interview talks about the state of the arcade industry as well as a few other arcade-related items. I think one of the best points made is that the arcade industry is on an upswing at the moment and is far from [...]
Still working on those coin-op PR plans…
June 13, 2007In the latest issue of the Stringer Report by Kevin Williams (#565) it discusses further the work that the AAMA and AMOA is undertaking to promote the coin-op industry as a whole. The AMOA had developed a web-based slideshow game called 88SLIDE and the AAMA has hired a PR firm called The Bohle Co. to [...]
Churches with arcades, what will they think of next?
May 29, 2007I’m all for there being more arcades out there so more people can experience how great of an experience it is, but I am at a loss as to how to go about this one. In response to decreasing numbers of attendees to denominational churches, a pastor in Sterling Heights Michigan has developed a “Megachurch” [...]
Arcade Crusade - free image hosting for arcade/pinball/gameroom stuff
May 22, 2007
Here is an interesting website that will allow you to upload pics of your own arcades, pinball machines, or game room to share with the rest of the world and all for free. While we have tried to get something somewhat similar started on the forum, this site is dedicated to such activities and it [...]
Capcom beats projections but arcade division down
May 21, 2007Here’s something interesting that was virtually overlooked about the recent news of Capcom’s financial earnings - while sales and operating income went up, few reported that Capcom’s arcade division dropped nearly 18 percent to $16 million. This isn’t difficult to explain of course, as it has been quite a while since Capcom released anything big [...]
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