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Taking a Look At the Trocadero in London, UK Before The End
Newsfeed 1348 via It’s been a pretty slow news week, which I will chalk up to post trade show doldrums. In case anyone is interested, I just posted a new montage video of arcade games from 2011 here. I’ll be working on a 2014 video soon. We’ve always seen a bit of interest in »
UK Location News: Trocadero Finalizes Arcade Closures; Some Games Headed To Las Vegas Soho
Back in 2011 the sad news came about that a famous arcade location in central London were closing their doors. But that wasn’t the end of the story, some of the games continued in operation on the site which Kevin Williams followed up on a few months later. I haven’t really heard anything about »
Following up on the Trocadero closure – Where are some of the games now?
The unwelcome news of the Trocadero shutting it’s doors in London earlier this year continues to have repercussions as some other London locations pick up some of the games that used to occupy the Troc. Our partner Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report has followed up on what’s going on with the Troc and »
The Funland @ the Trocadero closes its doors, here’s why
The Trocadero is a well-known retail business center in London and one highlight of the location would certainly be the Funland facility there, home to many great arcade games as well as serving as a prime spot for many location tests of various upcoming coin-op game products. It’s one of the few locations we »
Rassen seeking to bring Vulcan-M and Shooting Star to the US UPDATE Vulcan now at Trocadero in London
Of all the light-gun games we have discussed in recent times, perhaps one of the most surprising setups we have seen is the new content coming from Korean company Rassen as they seek to break into the amusement/digital out-of-home entertainment market. They demonstrated Vulcan-M at EAG (which features a realistic looking chaingun that expels »
More Konami love at the Trocadero – GTi Club location testing in the UK
We’ve been waiting for some more news on Konami’s GTi Club and it’s finally here with a location test of the game at the Trocadero in London. The Stinger Report sent us some ‘spy’ shots of the game in action and from these you can tell that it’s certainly running in HD and the »
UBeat testing at the Trocadero, London
If you’re going to be dropping by the Trocadero in London anytime soon then here’s something to keep an eye out for – Konami’s UBeat. The Stinger Report sent us some pictures of the two units they have there but for how long they will be in place is anyone’s guess. The game should »
Location Review: Funland Trocadero, London
Finally! This is something I’ve been meaning to do for longer than i care to mention. Hit the jump at the bottom of this post for my Funland picture overload! Funland Trocadero is a big place, so big it’s hard to describe the layout of the place, but essentially there are 5 main floors (I think!). »
Sega Rally 3 now at Funland, London Trocadero
For those of you dying to play the new Sega Rally 3, well here’s your chance (and mine!). Our forum member RJAY36 spotted Sega’s latest racing title down at Funland at London Trocadero. I actually paid a visit to Funland a few weeks back with a friend of mine and it wasn’t there, so I must »
Wacky Races On Secret Location Test At London Trocadero
Received a great tip yesterday from site reader Jimmy Beech. Read on…. Yo arcade dudes! Thought you’d wanna know that I saw a new racing game at Funland today, some guy there said it was on secret testing and it was Wacky Races. You know with Dasterdly and Muttley and it looks pretty cool. »
More Trocadero Footage
Big thanks to Sara for this tip, after our request for some more old skool footage of the Trocadero. Sara writes…. “One of my friends made a video of Funland in the Trocadero in 1990, this was right before they got the 2 R360 machines and the Galaxy Force super deluxe was brand new. There is lots of »
Virtua Fighter 5 Video @ The Trocadero
Here is the first of the two videos I took at the Trocadero this week. First up I have Virtua Fighter 5, apologies for the lack of sound, it didnt come out well. So instead I substituted for a bit of mellow happy hardcore. If that isn’t your thing you can always mute it, enjoy! [Discuss »
