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Sports car arcade cabinet add-ons make racers a little better

Shaggy January 30, 2008 2

I noticed this the other day when I was looking into the company behind the new arcade game out of Brazil called Senninha GP – sports car “add-ons” of a sort for arcade racer

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Scanida Grand Arcade California – Location Review

Shaggy January 30, 2008 0

Here’s another location review complete with pictures, this time from the Scandia Family Fun Center. In addition to a lot of fun activities they have on hand such as mini-golf, lazertag and more, they

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King of Kong now available on DVD

Shaggy January 30, 2008 0

Back in December we mentioned that the highly acclaimed documentary “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” was up for pre-order. As of today, it’s now available for everyone to go buy and

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Japan Arcade – Little Tokyo Los Angeles

Shaggy January 29, 2008 0

We haven’t had many location reviews to speak of lately as it’s difficult to go everywhere and write about all of the arcades. Fortunately we do come across information on some arcades out there

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Another arcade game from Brazil – Senninha GP

Shaggy January 26, 2008 9

It had been a while since I had checked out the Brazilian arcade scene as it seemed to be at a standstill. I couldn’t find the indication of any other developments beyond GP Brasil,

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How to discharge an arcade monitor (without killing yourself)

Shaggy January 26, 2008 1

I’m not sure how many of you like to work on arcades but if you’re new to the hobby you may be wondering “How do I discharge a monitor? Can that kill you?” Well

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Couple of new games in Japan – BlazBlue and Trouble Witches

Shaggy January 26, 2008 0

[Via Arcade Renaissance] Go ahead and put these under the “We’re not sure if they’ll ever be released outside of Japan” category. OK, you might see it as an import but it seems that

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Keeping the games clean

Shaggy January 26, 2008 1

It’s a slow news day and while we wait for Matt to post more pics and impressions of the ATEI show and all of the great stuff there, I figured it would be a

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Sea Wolf improved upon, released

Shaggy January 24, 2008 0

[Via Play Meter News] We’ve see the videos and the pictures of Sea Wolf by Coastal Amusements and it was quite a popular game at IAAPA 2007 so all we have been waiting for

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Stern's Shrek Pinball

Shaggy January 23, 2008 0

This came as a surprise – while looking around some arcade websites, I discovered some information on Stern’s next new pinball machine – Shrek. It appears that this will see a very limited release,

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GlobalVR website update – Blazing Angels

Shaggy January 23, 2008 2

  We should be seeing more of Blazing Angels Arcade from GlobalVR here soon as the game is debuting at ATEI, but until we get those pics we’ll settle for some information straight from

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Play Meter's State of the Industry Report for 2007

Shaggy January 23, 2008 0

We always hear the numbers for how good or bad the console industry is doing in terms of how much cash it pulls in or sales of total units, which is an awful lot

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