Monthly Archives: August 2007 »
20 Difficult games by Gamasutra – a few arcades mentioned
[Via Joystiq] Arcade games are supposed to be hard. That is just something we all understand, accept and like as arcade gamers. They test your skills, endurance and will-power but hard games also don’t
Read More »Pac Man Carpet
[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
Read More »Stern Still Going Strong
The New York Times published a story that profiled small, entrepreneurial companies that are/have made changes to adapt to changing times and markets. One of these companies was the one and only Stern Pinball, read
Read More »An Epiphany, an End, and a Beginning.
Sad news in the arcade website world. Retro Blast has come to an end. Kevin Steele, the creator of the site has called it a day so he can put all his efforts in
Read More »Arcade's £1.8 million extension given all clear
Good to see the local councils are supporting the cause. [via ATE Online] KW Reader and Sons has been granted planning permission by South Tyneside Council for a £1.8 million, 16,000sq ft expansion at
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review: Super Bikes by Raw Thrills
Time is hard to find these days so I find myself remembering to do a review but with little time to write a new one up. Fortunately I have this one that I had
Read More »DDR Cosplay Fun
Now if only I lived in Rothschild, I could dig out one of my DDR costumes! [via Barcade] Livewire Fun Center in Rothschild, WI is having a few DDR events worth mentioning this upcoming
Read More »BeatmaniaIIDX15 DJ Troopers Dated
The only time I ever see these machines are at shows, and even then I won’t dare play them because I end up looking completely useless next to the pro players that they always have on the Konami
Read More »'Joust' coming to the big screen and comic books
[Via Gamedaily BIZ] Not long ago I was reading about upcoming movies for 2008 and the rest of 2007 on imdb and I noticed a disturbing trend of video game based movies that are
Read More »Raw Thrills issues service update for machines due to potential hazard
[Via Coinoptoday.com] Fresh on the heels of the recent recall in Japan of Atlus’ Arm Spirit comes an announcement from Raw Thrills about a “service update” for their Fast and Furious, Super Bikes and
Read More »Token Sign Project
I found this on a blog called NoiseLandArcade. They talk about arcades on occasio among other things but in a post today he put up an interesting token sign that he designed based upon
Read More »What Are We Playing This Week……
Shaggy -Liberator (Arcade) -Major Havoc (Arcade) -Resident Evil 4 (Wii) Twisted Supreme -Virtua Tennis 3 (360 & Arcade) -Guitar Hero 2 (PS2) -Puzzle League (DS) Nothing new, I’m just waiting for my Bioshock to
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