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Next from Stern Pinball: Dark Knight
While I was at my distributor the other day I heard some interesting news on the pinball front as to what is next from Stern, but with my busy schedule lately I haven’t had
Read More »Marketing the arcade
One thing that some arcades seem to have trouble with is getting the word out about their business. This is something that any small business can have trouble with as it takes money to
Read More »First footage of Taito's new Space Invaders: Beat The Attackers
We first saw Taito’s new Space Invader’s based redemption game at the Park Avenue Open Day in the UK a short time ago and now it has been seen on location at the Funland
Read More »My first impressions on Oriental Legend 2
I have to keep this fairly brief as I don’t have a lot of time but Oriental Legend 2 by IGS arrived the other day and I had a chance to set it up
Read More »Immersion Copr. invests into new startup called NanoTech Entertainment
You might be wondering why I am bringing this up as the names of these companies don’t sound familiar, but it is arcade related. Some time ago a company called Immersion Corporation signed an
Read More »Lord of Vermilion Release Ceremony at a Taito Game Station in Japan
We have known about Square Enix’s latest entry into the arcade market, The Lord of Vermilion for some time now and finally the game has been released in Japan. For those out of the
Read More »Atari's Sprint8/Indy 800 sort of returns with Konami's Motor X
(Click to enlarge) So there are quite a number of new arcade games in development this year and for whatever reason quite a few of them are racing games. Now the racer has been
Read More »Blazblue mentioned in GameInformer; Primeval Hunt in Hardcore Gamer Magazine and Gamepro joins the fray
I have been critical of the lack of arcade coverage in GameInformer in the past so when they do give some coverage to arcades it’s only fair that I point that out as well.
Read More »Surprise, people still play arcade games (my arcade update)
Well day one for my arcade (Tuesday) was slow. Slow enough that no one came! That was expected really as I don’t have much in the front to indicate what it is other than
Read More »Raw Thrills' finally updates their website
Well everyone else was doing it and finally after more than a year with nothing new Raw Thrills’ has done it too – updated their website. There isn’t anything new on the site that
Read More »The horror: Asteroids meets the shredder
No not THE Shredder, villainous foe of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but an actual industrial shredder that is good at well, shredding things. Unfortunately this is not the first time I have seen
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