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From Australia: IKEA tests Manland; Insert Coin(s) retro arcade event a success
Newsfeeds 1110 & 1111 via Let’s start the week off with a couple of news items coming from the land down under, more specifically from the city of Sydney. First is an interesting development
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Newsfeed 1103 via A couple of years ago Sega showed off a surprise development at the annual JAMMA show in Tokyo called Heat-Up Air Hockey. It used an overhead projector to create an image
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The Change Machine T-Shirt
Newsfeed 1097 via It’s near impossible to track down all of the clever T-Shirts that have been made over the years to feature something arcade-related. But I can’t say I’ve ever come across a
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Plaza Theatre in Atlanta, GA classic arcade setup confiscated by The Man (aka, state of Georgia)
(Thanks to Mark Arson for the tip) UPDATE: Since this story broke, it looks like some fans of Plaza have come to the rescue, covering the fees and allowing Plaza to keep the games.
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LEPOS: From street art to arcade game demo
As a character who started out as street artwork, the creator of Lepos, Diego Bergia has been looking to move him from there to something a little more interactive. What better way to take
Read More »Hell’s Kitchen’s Pinball Intro
Each season of the TV reality competition show Hell’s Kitchen has a different opening sequence. With the season that just started yesterday they actually have a pretty nice nod to pinball on there as
Read More »The Video games of The Simpsons + new VR entertainment system prototype
(Thanks to James for the Simpsons tip. VR system news is Newsfeed 1074 via ) The Simpsons has been on TV for a really long time. I remember being in elementary school and everyone
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Darius Burst Another Chronicle goes EX
What do you do with a popular game? You “sequelize” it of course. It’s no different for video games than books or movies since people enjoy the original so much. Yesterday we saw that
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Arcade-related Illuminated T-Shirts
One trend that seems to be gaining some steam is that behind illuminated fabrics. I’ve seen a number of ideas tried out over the past few years although I’ve yet to see anyone wander
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The Mood Bar by Coca-Cola
Newsfeed 1044 via Once again coin-op arcade news has been terribly slow (after a nice little spurt last week) for the past few days so we have to branch out into an area that
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