Monthly Archives: July 2009 »
Another look at why beach arcades are awesome
One additional indicator that summer is in full swing in the northern hemisphere (in case you didn’t know already) are the number of articles highlighting beach arcades. I posted about one recently and here
Read More »DDR X at Japan Expo 2009 in Paris
In case you were wondering what players would think of the new DDR X in Europe, then the recent appearance of the title at the Japan Expo 2009 in Paris France should answer that
Read More »Take a virtual tour of Michael Jackson's private arcade
Remember all of those awesome arcade games Michael Jackson owned that were in excellent condition and a few months back were going to be put up on the auction block? Now you can see
Read More »The unofficial Nintendo DS arcade cabinet
There are a lot of cool things you can do with arcade cabinet mods but I have to admit that the idea of hacking apart a Nintendo DS so that an arcade cabinet could
Read More »The making of Defender
Defender is a well-known arcade classic and if you have ever wondered about some of the details involved in how the game came about, one site has interviewed Eugene Jarvis to get the rundown
Read More »Arcade Heroes Week-in-review podcast #4
Another week another podcast, I did this one solo and in addition to discussing the news we saw this week on AH, I also discuss the Midway purchase by Warner and the release of
Read More »ParkR!, the amusement park finder
I never get tired of spreading word of websites like Aurcade.com or ArcadeFly.com, where people can find an arcade near them. I bring it up often simply because too many people don’t know where
Read More »Tekken chief says unlockable characters are outdated
Some interesting news related to the Tekken franchise – the guy in charge of Tekken stated in a recent interview that “unlockables are outdated”, primarily due to the nature of online play. Unlockable content
Read More »Who wants a Michael Jackson's Moonwalker arcade for several thousand dollars?
When someone famous dies, you can expect to see sites like eBay flooded with memorabilia that carries the deceased person’s name/image/autograph etc. on it. And naturally, some people hope to milk their item for
Read More »Raw Thrills releases H2Overdrive to arcades
Hydro Thunder fans, the day you have been waiting for has finally arrived as Raw Thrills’/Specular Interactive’s new take on Hydro Thunder, H2Overdrive is arriving at distributors around the country and then they are
Read More »New trailer for Elevator Action Death Parade
Taito’s modern update to Elevator Action now has an official trailer and it looks pretty exciting. In our previous coverage of the game, we saw that it is not like the original game in
Read More »Time to cringe, Asteroids to be made into a feature film
When Hollywood studios set their sights on adapting a video game into a film, you sadly have to worry about how badly the game will be butchered on screen. Hollywood has a terrible track
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