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Newsblender : A Danish Arcade Up For An Award; INJUSTICE Arcade cabinet; Interview with Roger Hector of Atari/Sente
Time for another blending of news items together into one post. It does a body good, every once in a while at least. About a year and a half ago an arcade opened up
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Retro Arcade Postmortems from GDC
(Image via g4tv.com) The Game Developers Conference is a great place for “postmortems”, or where a developer looks back at the development process for a title that they worked on. Insight is given as
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Book Review: Atari Inc. Business Is Fun
Well here is a rarity for us, a book review. It’s not that there aren’t any books about arcades out there, just that I have not got my hands on one until recently. The
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The Top 10 Posts At Arcade Heroes For 2012
Last year I took a look at the top 10 posts that we ran as a way to recap the news of the year and it doesn’t hurt to do it again – its
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Spacewar! Exhibit Opens At The Museum of the Moving Image In Astoria, NY
(Image above by Daniel Love, from the Exhibit website) As the year comes down to its final days, news in this sector tends to slow down as companies tend to close their doors for
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Meteors, The Prototype Arcade Game That Changed An Industry
(Thanks to DasBacon on Facebook for pointing me to this story, Eric Holniker for providing details) We’ve spoken plenty about prototype games this year since so many notable games turned 30, and Pong turned
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As Arcade Heroes Turns Six, A Look Back At Pong Variations
I am sure that you have heard by now that Atari’s Pong celebrated 40 years in existence this past Friday. I did not forget, I just figured it would be nice to do an
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Varied News of The Day: Atari Book Out Now; Rusty Quarters Month Long Event; Pac-Man Moons
Here are some various news bits that are related to arcades and interesting enough to talk about.
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Game Designing The Atari Way + Crazy Arcade Flyers
This would have been great to share last month but as the saying goes, “better late than never”. While I’ve been on the Starcade site before, I have never seen this series of behind-the-scenes
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40 Years of Arcade Games – Part 2(1990-2012)
So the 40 Years of Arcade Games post to celebrate Atari’s 40th anniversary had so much content on it that I had to split it up to keep the post from crashing. See Part
Read More »New Book: Atari Inc. – Business Is Fun
We mentioned this a while back but today being what it is, Atari’s birthday, the official announcement has come along from the writers that the new book, Atari Inc. – Business is Fun is
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40 Years Of Arcade Games – Part 1 (1972-1989)
Today is Atari’s 40th Anniversary which also marks a good time to look over 40 years of arcade games in general. What is your favorite arcade game and why? Here’s something that I find
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