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Action Deka on test in the UK

Shaggy April 14, 2008 0

One game that Konami has been working on that I have been interested in is Action Deka (or Action Cop), which uses some controls that reminds one of the Wii for driving, beat ’em

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Midwest Gaming Classic 2008 – Arcades & Pins video

Shaggy April 13, 2008 0

Here is a video of a walk through the pinball and arcade area of the Midwest Gaming Classic. The pins definently outnumber the arcades from the looks of it but either way I’m certain

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Atari Star Wars on an oscilloscope

Shaggy April 13, 2008 0

It’s been a long weekend for me (working, not playing) so I haven’t had a lot of opportunities to scour for news but I did come across this youtube video of someone running the

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"Post ASI Seminars & Spotlight show" at Betson

Shaggy April 12, 2008 0

(Click on the image above to enlarge) If you live in or near Bensenville Illinois and you wanted to check out ASI, Betson is giving people a chance to get a taste of what

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It's fun to ignore facts (or how not to mention SFIV arcade in the US if you write for a game mag)

Shaggy April 11, 2008 0

To readers of this site, it’s no news that Capcom is looking to bring Street Fighter IV to the US. But this established fact seems to evade the mainstream gaming media, in particular GameInformer.

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Hundreds attend the public opening of ASI

Shaggy April 11, 2008 0

One new aspect of this year’s ASI convention was that they opened the show up on the last day of the event to the public. While I wasn’t there on the Saturday when this

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Update on Sega Rally Arcade – not cancelled

Shaggy April 10, 2008 3

(Click on the images to enlarge) Despite the closure of the Sega studio in charge of creating racing titles for consoles, this title is still on track and is going through testing. To prove

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Go Go Golf from Sega – junk the Wiimote, play with a real club!

Shaggy April 9, 2008 1

I remember not too long ago when Bill Gates was asked about the motion-sensing controls of the Wii he mentioned that he saw the day when you could do something like pick up a

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Konami's HorseRiders – an interesting twist on the card-based video game

Shaggy April 9, 2008 0

Of the games I had been hoping to catch at ASI this year was Sanguozhi War 3 by Sega. It had been tested in Chicago but had since disappeared on the US scene. The

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Sega Rally Arcade cancelled already? UPDATE: No it is not

Shaggy April 9, 2008 0

Just a little over a month ago we had received a tip that Sega was testing a new racer in a UK arcade that happened to be Sega Rally, a racer that appeared on

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Incredible Technologies gearing up for their largest coin-op sweepstakes ever

Shaggy April 9, 2008 0

One aspect about coin-op game creator Incredible Technologies that I have always liked are the sweepstakes that they run with their various games, from Golden Tee to Silver Strike Bowling and even to Bags.

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A Spy Hunter Homecoming

Shaggy April 8, 2008 0

For many of us that have played arcade games for years and years, there is probably a couple of machines that we created an attachment to as we would play them all the time.

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