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With economies under stress, are consumers spending on entertainment?
Newsfeed 1059 via It feels like forever now that economies around the world are in a state of recession/depression, with stagnant growth and worried consumers all around. It’s not the case in every country
Read More »TRON Legacy Pinball Game Features Video
Stern Pinball has released a video demonstrating all of the features to be found in their latest title, TRON Legacy Pinball. As we can see, the video game scoop shot is an important target
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Darius Burst Another Chronicle goes EX
What do you do with a popular game? You “sequelize” it of course. It’s no different for video games than books or movies since people enjoy the original so much. Yesterday we saw that
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Monday Variety Post: Reflect Beat goes Lime; Retro mini-cabs, New Arcade Book
“It’s all of your favorite hits with more variety”, variety being the radio code word for “you are going to hate most of the schlock we play with a few decent songs you actually
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Alterface’s 5Di Gamebox Attraction
Anyone who has been to the IAAPA Expo every November knows that there are an awful lot of products to see and there’s no way to experience them all. This past November I recall
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Gaming law struck down in Kansas
(Thanks to Jordan Fredrick for the tip) Way back in April 2010, word came along that the US state of Kansas adopted a new law banning “gray machines”, gaming devices like coin pushers that
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The Arcade Light Switch by AlephDesign
I’m not really up to speed on advancements in light-switch technology but everything I’ve seen at the hardware store shows that it hasn’t really changed much since it hasn’t really needed to. That’s ok
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TRON Pinball now out in the wild + flyer
One of the most popular news items we’ve had on the site recently would have to be Stern Pinball’s TRON Legacy Pinball. The TRON franchise has an interwoven relationship with arcades but since Discs
Read More »The few arcade games of E3 2011
(Thanks to Igo for the tip!) While this isn’t exactly what I was talking about recently, E3 did have a small selection of some great classic arcade games to play, as shown by ClassicGameRoom.
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Quirky cabs: SFIV 3D, Virtual Boy Arcade, King of Hunting
Newsfeeds 1055-1057 via Here are a few strange cabinets where the chances of coming across them are pretty slim. First is a cabinet we’ve seen before from a trade show in China – the
Read More »The Boy In The Claw Machine (Part XXIV)
Newsfeed 1054 via As a part of our infrequently running series, here is another video of a small agile child finding their way into the confines of a crane machine. You don’t have to
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