How much would you pay for an arcade poster? Would you pay $1400+?

Posted November 28, 2008 by Shaggy
Categories: Arcade Collecting
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[Thanks to Oga Shi for the tip]

One cool thing I miss about arcades is that they use to produce a poster for every game that the operator could put up as advertising for that title at their location. While some games today do occasionally come with a poster (mostly ones from Japan or Taiwan - I got one with Oriental Legend 2 and I was told that the BlazBlue kit comes with a bunch of promotional materials), many just have a flyer and not much else. Some old posters have become collectors items, like the nude Centipede poster by Atari or as is the case with this Gradius poster in Japan, which went for approximately $1445 USD or 138,000¥ in Japan. Rarity, condition, the quality of the artwork and the game that the poster belonged to is always a factor with these things but if I ever happen to come across for one of these Gradius posters for cheap then at least I know where to sell one now.

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Interview with Konami about GTI Club+

Posted November 28, 2008 by Shaggy
Categories: Arcade Gaming, Konami, New games, Playstation
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Konami is updating the original GTI Club for the Playstation 3 (the full name is GTI Club+ Rally Cote D’Azur) and releasing it over PSN as an exclusive title for the platform. It will play like the arcade original but with gticlubbetter graphics and a few other updates. In an interview with Philip Macdonald, producer of the game, they discuss the upcoming title in detail and surprisingly the new arcade version is mentioned. While they will not be the same games, it looks like they may offer tracks from the new arcade racer (see details on that one here and here) as downloads for the remake on PSN as well. Hit the link below for the interview, unfortunately there is not much else on the new arcade version of GTI Club(perhaps we’ll hear more at ATEI) but at least the interviewer knows about its existence.

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NY Arcade with SFIV and Tekken 6

Posted November 27, 2008 by Shaggy
Categories: Arcade Coverage, Arcade Gaming, Arcade Location, New games
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While arcades in the US with some of the most desired fighters in one place might be rare, they are out there. Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report stopped by an arcade in New York that has Street Fighter IV and Tekken 6 along with a number of other games.  Called the Chinatown Fair (thanks for fubarduck in the comments for clearing that up), they have four SFIV cabinets on location, all of which appear to be homebrew cabinets although they don’t look bad. It looks like they did the same thing with Tekken 6 and we are also told that they have a BlazBlue cabinet there to boot.  Click on the thumbnails below to get a full view

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CSI Pinball in action

Posted November 27, 2008 by Shaggy
Categories: New games, Pinball, Stern
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I got a chance to play and film Stern’s new CSI pinball game today and overall I like the game - I wasn’t sure what to expect since I had never really watched the show before but the game has some cool features like the centrifuge that I really enjoy. Unfortunately the volume was quite low on the machine that I played on so I didn’t get the ‘full’ experience but I could check out the features at least. While it wasn’t shown in the video below, I did get the skull multiball on another round I played and it was nice, although it would have been better if they threw more pinballs onto the playfield for one of the multiballs.

Here’s the video I shot, at first I had to do it with one hand, then a friend grabbed the camera so I could go from there. Not that it helped me much. :P

UPDATED: Here’s a couple of extra CSI Pinball videos (thanks IcePagoda for the links)

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Footage from Initial D5

Posted November 26, 2008 by Shaggy
Categories: Arcade Video, Initial D, New games, Sega
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It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about Sega’s Intitial D5 - we first had news on this one back towards the end of June and have been waiting to hear something more since. Well here it is, footage of the game in action. There’s no doubt that it looks absolutely great, I wonder what hardware it is running on. The funny thing for me is that just yesterday I had a couple of people asking about getting an Initial D at my arcade but I have never seen one personally and I don’t know if my distributor carries it or not (although they probably could get one).

Here’s the embedded video, it does look like Youtube has added widescreen capability to the videos now but I have only seen that on the site and not on embedded material.

BTW- This is the 300th newsfeed we’ve received from The Stinger Report, time has sure flown by as we approach AH’s 2nd year in operation and again, thanks to the Stinger for the great news they send us.

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How about a little hypnosis with your arcade game? Try Waking Dead.

Posted November 26, 2008 by Shaggy
Categories: Arcade Games, Arcade Video
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Some of the things that ‘magicians’ get into these days are not close to what I’d call magic but endurance. Standing in ice for a couple of days or hanging upside from something outside in the cold? Big deal. At the very least try something that seems like magic. We all know it’s fake anyways but I find some forms of ‘magic’ far more entertaining than others. When it involves hypnosis and an arcade game then count me in. While this particular video is nothing new, it’s at least two and a half years old, it’s still fun to watch. Called Waking Dead by English magician Derren Brown, this is an arcade title that puts the subject into a hypnotic state and then they take him to a place where he ‘plays the game’ he was just playing but in real life. They have to go through a bit of trouble for just one person and perhaps it’s a bit morbid to laugh about how the guy acts in the ‘game’ while they show his friends all disturbed by his behavior but I know a couple of people who would love to participate in this sort of zombie apocalypse shooter and I could see them in it.

Be warned that there is a little bit of mature language in the video when the player starts fighting the zombies.

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Pinball Tournament @ GameWorks in Dec., more coming soon

Posted November 25, 2008 by Shaggy
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I have only been to a GameWorks once and that was recently in Vegas. I was quite impressed with their setup gameworksalong with the kind of games they had in there, it really seemed like it was top notch. I didn’t think about seeing if they ran any kind of tournaments or not but we did get an e-mail about an upcoming pinball tournament at the Gameworks in Chicago (Dec. 12th-14th on Ripley’s, Family Guy and NASCAR) and they said that more would be coming along soon. Tournaments are always a good thing in any arcade so hopefully this will help pull in a crowd.

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The SuperAuction that came and went in Brockton, MA

Posted November 24, 2008 by Shaggy
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If you’re an arcade collector then one of things you always keep an eye out for are arcade auctions. They goodtiemsalways can be a good place to find some cool games. If you live in or near Brockton, MA then you had a chance this weekend to attend a pretty big auction where the arcade inventory was valued at at least a million dollars. The inventory comes from Good Time, who is needing to close their doors after IKEA wanted in and they couldn’t get the financing to get into a $25 million complex. I hate it when things like this happen - I’m going to have to move my own arcade very soon because they are rushing to make way for a sidewalk so people can enter the mall without having to make the long trip of 100 feet to get to the other nearby entrance.

Anyways, the Good Time auction on Nov. 8th attracted between 300 to 400 people who could enjoy the games on free play prior to them going to the auction block. They had a large collection of “classic arcade games, go karts and skee-ball” but there were no pictures in the report of the auction or information on how much many of the games went for, except that I found out that a Pac-Man cocktail cabinet went for $1000.

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One Video from IAAPA shows Razing Storm, SR3

Posted November 22, 2008 by Shaggy
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It’s very brief but in the middle of this video showcasing a bunch of stuff at IAAPA, they do show a couple of arcade titles, including Namco’s Razing Storm. Of course there are plenty of other things you can see that we haven’t really discussed since we’ve just been focusing video titles.

I’ve also found videos of Tecway Developments Go Go Jockey and SkyJet - not from IAAPA but elsewhere. At least you can see these games which were at the show. GoGO Jockey is below and the footage is probably from GTI Expo 2008; Sky  Jet is off-site but the footage is definently from some other unknown event.

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Konami releases BeatmaniaIIDX Empress in Japan

Posted November 21, 2008 by Shaggy
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[Via BemaniStyle.com]

While most of our news the past few days has been about US arcade releases, they are still busy in Japan as well. Konami has released the latest addition to their Beatmania line-up, BeatmaniaIIDX Empress. As the name and banner above suggests, this title carries a bit more feminine theme to it than other Beatmania games in the mix, so I guess we’ll see how guys take to the game. It does feature quite a line-up of music that should be particularly pleasing to Beatmania fans, including music from an American bemani fan turned Konami artist. The playlist features over 40 songs and it also will use a number of e-amusement pass features. Check Bemanistyle for the full run-down on the title.

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