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KOF 98 to return to arcades

Shaggy November 29, 2007 0

KOF 98 is the generally considered the best in the ‘King of Fighters’ series, defining what makes a 1-on-1 arcade fighter great. I happen to agree with the statements discussing how awesome KOF ’98

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Want in on The Act?

Shaggy November 27, 2007 0

I have received word from Cecropia that a full cabinet as well as a kit are up on eBay for their cancelled coin-op title The Act. You have probably already seen the footage I’ve

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Dream Arcades launches their DreamCade Vision 120

Shaggy November 27, 2007 0

Hot on the heels of the Voyager Arcade news comes this press release about Dream Arcades’ new DreamCade Vision 120 which packs 145 classic games onto a MAME PC along with a pre-built control

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Namco getting ready to sue the pants off Voyager Arcade

Shaggy November 27, 2007 0

See this cabinet above? It probably won’t be around much longer. If you are into arcades at all, you can’t surf the internet without running into one of these MAME-enabled cabinets that someone decided

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Asteroids blasting its way to XBLA Wednesday

Shaggy November 27, 2007 0

  (click to enlarge) We don’t mention arcade remakes coming to XBLA that often but I felt that this one is worth mentioning as it’s Asteroids. That’s right, Atari mighty classic makes it way

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Horse Riders Location Test

Shaggy November 25, 2007 0

(Click on the image to enlarge) I don’t know much about this game but while on the Konami site looking at information about Action Detective I caught that this other coin-op title from Konami

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Konami's Action Detective Heads to location test

Shaggy November 25, 2007 0

[Via The Stinger Report] (Click on the image above to enlarge) Since I first heard about this a month or two ago I have been eager to find out more about Konami’s new 3D

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SquareEnix heats up Japanese card game scene with The Lord of Vermillion

Shaggy November 24, 2007 1

It looks like coin-operated trading card RPG titles are here to stay (at least in Japan – it still remains to be seen how well these games will catch on overseas although reports say

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Some brief IAAPA 2007 coverage

Shaggy November 23, 2007 0

[Via Barcade.com] Barcade has posted two articles on their experience at this year’s IAAPA event. There are some descriptions of games we’ve discussed here including the new Sea Wolf, TrioTech’s UFO Stomper, Sega’s RaceTV

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Derby Owners Club 2008 testing in Japan

Shaggy November 22, 2007 0

The Derby Owner’s Club 2008 website has been updated to show that the game is currently testing in Japan at three different locations. While there is no information on an international release of this

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Castle Golf Video Tour by PressStartComic

Shaggy November 22, 2007 0

What’s better than reading a location review? Seeing a location review! Nick from PressStartComic takes us on a tour of Castle Golf Video on Long Island. They have a nice arcade setup there with

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Sea Wolf price and release

Shaggy November 22, 2007 3

If you checked out the videos below from IAAPA 2007 thanks to Justin from Sega, you would have seen the first footage of the new video redemption game called Sea Wolf, based upon a

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