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R-Tuned Ultimate Street Racing by Sega
(click on the image to enlarge it, via Aries Small Rooms) First there was Tokyo Drift, then Need For Speed Carbon and now Sega is throwing it’s hat into the street racing arena with
Read More »Another look at arcades by Forbes, this time the Boardwalk
Forbes has another arcade-related article up again, this time discussing trends seen in Boardwalk arcades located in California, New Jersey and other places. They do write saying that you should get out and go
Read More »Gottlieb 'virtually' returns to pinball through Nanotech Entertainment
Among the old pinball manufacturers one name that enthusiasts will easily recall is that of Gottlieb. Gottlieb got started in 1927 making early pinballs and created many different kinds of tables all the way
Read More »Peruvian authorities destroy 1,000 illegal Peruvian pinball machines.
Dang those blasted video games and pinball machines, corrupting our youth more than jazz music ever could. Such an attitude is the case in Peru where authorities as part of the National Tourist Board
Read More »Wii gets a hospital kiosk; Xbox Arcade machine still AWOL
Not long ago we reported that Microsoft designed some specialized kiosks with an Xbox 360 into hospitals and now Nintendo is doing the same thing with the Wii. I’m a little surprised that Nintendo
Read More »Initial D5 on location test in Japan
Yep, add another racer to the slate of arcade releases this year. Sega is now testing the latest iteration of the Initial D series, Initial D5 in arcades in Japan, reports AM-Net. Since my
Read More »New Xbox 360 Coin-Op Arcade Machine just a day away?
For a while on Highwaygames.com they have had a banner sitting there with a countdown towards an “Xbox Arcade Machine” for sometime now and according to the countdown, tomorrow is the day that it
Read More »Next step in the robot take over – now they can play air hockey!
I jest with the headline about the robot takeover but if you really are concerned about the evolution of robots in the world then here’s another thing for you to worry about. If not
Read More »ExerGaming with Expresso Fitness
We’ve discussed ExerGaming in relation to the coin-op scene before – it’s from the coin-op scene that exergaming really started to take off thanks to Dance Dance Revolution and now you will find that
Read More »Pinball on TV
Stern has been on a roll lately. Indiana Jones seems to be doing well (it has been earning quite well at my place, I even had one person play it for 3 hours straight
Read More »Fighter mania continues with BlazBlue
The notion that no one wants to play fighters in the arcade anymore is silly. Apparently Capcom and Namco thinks so when it comes to the US but I have noticed a very interesting
Read More »New arcade in France focuses on fighters
Despite what you might hear in the media at times, there are still many people out there who enjoy arcade fighters. I have seen that myself over the past week of running my arcade,
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