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Next Up In The Arcade High Score Wars – MAN VS SNAKE
Since the early days of arcade gaming and single player games started making their way onto the scene, the concept of “Man Vs. Machine” has been a challenge taken seriously by many gamers. That
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Soon To Open Ann Arbor Pinball Museum Reaches Funding Goal
(Thanks to Aaron Auzins for the tip) A new pinball museum will be opening its doors in Ann Arbor, MI in the next few months, thanks to 238 backers on Kickstarter. Pinball museums seem
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Project DIVA Arcade Future Tone To Feature New Sega Arcade Hardware “Nu”
I know for some Sega fans, hearing new hardware and Sega in a sentence may sound like link trolling. We’re not here to bait with fantasies of a Dreamcast 2 but in the world
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Polygon Looks at Behemoth’s PAX Arcade Cabs and The indie Killer Queen Game
(Pictured: Castle Crashers Arcade cabinet from a previous PAX event) The game news site Polygon.com is giving some love to arcades, albeit with a focus on some “indie” developments that have been going on
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16-Bit Bar+Arcade Opens In Columbus, OH; Asheville Pinball Musuem in Asheville, NC
Let’s keep the arcade location openings coming shall we? Once or twice a month is nice when that happens but with this post that will make three new locations opening their doors in August,
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Newsbag: Arcade Montage Videos, Winning Eleven 2014 loctest; Pixar Cars Arcade Release + More
UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM – GUNSLINGER STRATOS 2 ANNOUNCED Hello all and welcome to another weekend! In the Northern hemisphere now is the time we start looking towards the end of the summer and
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Route 66 Arcade Museum Now Open in Atlanta, IL
It’s been a little while since we had news of a new location opening the doors probably due to most places trying to get open at the beginning of the summer. For this location
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Andamiro’s Hit The Beat Combines Drumming & Slashing
In 2010 we ran a story about a game that combined elements of a fighting game with a rhythm one. If it ever was released then it was fairly limited to South Korea and
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Alterface Launches Vanguard For The 5Di Gamebox
In 2011 we ran a brief story about a “5D” multi-player theater called Alterface. They create interactive motion theaters and “dark rides” (usually interactive indoor roller coasters or rides). To try and summarize what
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Namco Holds Business Meetings in Japan, Sonic Storm Renamed to Mach Storm
The slow news period we’ve seen this summer may be starting to come to an end, at least where new game products are concerned. Japanese manufacturers are beginning to hold public “business meetings”, where
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Looking At Taito’s History As They Turn 60
This past Friday (the 24th) was a date that was important to arcade and video game history but I did not realize that until I saw a message on Facebook from Taito. Here is
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Monopoly Goes Videmption With Monopoly Arcade
The other day I was looking over the 2013 releases and upcoming list and one has to admit – it feels a little light compared to previous years. Given the time it takes to
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