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Kawasaki Warehouse – Location Report, Japan
Wow, I have just got back from Japan and made a fabulous discovery whilst I was there: Kawasaki Warehouse This incredible arcade has been built from the ground up to look like a disused,
Read More »Free Rice: A Word Game With Heart
Ok, it’s not really arcade and it’s not much of a game but it will help you increase your vocabulary and will help feed the hungry of the world. Go on give it a
Read More »Crazy: VF2 Simpsons Vs Family Guy
Some crazy people took the parts of the VF2 PC game and using a “Make Your Own Fighting Game” engine called M.U.G.E.N. threw in Homer and Peter Griffin! Also note the Sega mascots in the
Read More »"The Act" – In the News
As a taster for Shaggy’s up coming review here is a quick news story I found on “The Act” on youtube. Features a little gameplay, cabinet on test and some interviews with key Cecropia staff. Sadly they
Read More »SEGA Rally Demo on XBox Live!!!!
Just spotted on Major Nelson Blog that the demo for SEGA Rally is now available on XBox live……downloading now…………2% complete…………………..Grrrrr…………must….. get…… faster….. Internet……. connection!!! Updated: Well worth the wait. Only single player, two
Read More »Whatever Happened to: Psy-Phi
Psy-Phi was announced by SEGA as a new Lindbergh based arcade game . The project was being headed by legend Yu Suzuki and featured two player touch screen fighting/shooting gameplay based on 1-on-1 combat with players floating up in the
Read More »Surface Tension Arcade Tables
Well, this kind of makes my conversion project seem even more of a joke (I still haven’t progressed beyond ordering a tiny TFT screen). A welcome forum visitor has pointed us to their site, Surface Tension from which they
Read More »Polybius – Urban Myth or CIA Plot ?
I had completely forgotten about this old story until a friend reminded me today. As some of you may know this story has been floating around for a very long time. Reputedly back
Read More »Pixelbox – Fantastic Micro MAME Cabinet by Vance Fry
This settles it, I am going to do the conversion on the Space Invaders Mini Cabinet. Vance Fry has done some amazing work building a micro sized cabinet from scratch using Sanwa arcade
Read More »Mini Arcade Cabinet Madness
Just look at this baby! A really great friend brought back this very cool mini arcade cabinet from Japan. It is actually an enclosure for a Playstation controller which I think was released for the Space Invaders Anniversary but the
Read More »Mario & Sonic together at last!!!
Wow what a historic day, Nintendo and SEGA have announced that Mario & Sonic will appear in a game together for the first time. Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games is coming for
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