Monthly Archives: August 2008 »
Update on my arcade, The Game Grid (8/29/08)
It’s been a little while since I did an update on how my arcade, The Game Grid Arcade, is going and I’ve had a few people ask about it so here we go. We
Read More »ArcadeUFO opens today
I have to admit that I have never seen so many people excited for one arcade to open before but we have mentioned ArcadeUFO before and as of today they are officially open. They
Read More »The Retro Remakes 2008 Big Compo looks to make a 'Game For Helen'
One area where arcade titles have tread before is that of making a game that can be played by people who may have a disability that prevents them from enjoying games otherwise. Atari Games
Read More »Coin-Op TV interviews SFIV producer Yoshinori Ono
Coin-Op TV has an interview up with SFIV producer Yoshinori Ono taken from Comic-Con 2008. In it he discusses the effect that the fans had on making the game come together in the first
Read More »Man assaulted over high score on arcade game
Sometimes people need to learn how to chill out, as is the case with this story out of Lancashire, UK. Here’s the story from This Is Lancashire: TWO thugs brutally attacked a young man
Read More »The Xbox 360 Arcade Station T2 is legit UPDATED with Microsoft's response
We’ve been looking at the T2 Arcade Station for a while now, it turns an Xbox 360 into a coin-operated device and while there have been questions about it’s legality that had gone unanswered,
Read More »Hip Hop Scotch – Namco's foot controlled redemption game
First there was Taito’s Space Invaders ‘Beat The Attackers’, then someone made an unauthorized foot-controlled Frogger game and now Namco is joining the foot-controlled redemption/video mix with this new title called Hip Hop Scotch.
Read More »MTV brings us Capcom's advice on buying SFIV
The MTV game blog (yeah, they haven’t been just about the music for years) has some advice on buying SFIV if you’re in the market for the game, which boils down to ‘wait for
Read More »Gamespot segment about arcades
Here’s something you don’t see everyday but it does relate to what Editor of The Stinger Report has been telling us about the consumer game media – that the appeal of Street Fighter IV
Read More »A preview of what Sega is showing at next months JAMMA event
The Amusement Machine Show (also known as JAMMA) will soon be here and thanks to The Stinger Report we have a preview of what we can expect to see from Sega at the
Read More »A Street Fighter IV Players Guide
If you live within the distance of an arcade that happens to have a Street Fighter IV arcade setup and you want to go in knowing what you’re doing already, then this guide is
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