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Gym uses arcade games to attract teens, train them
[Via KATU.com] In California, a new gym that is specifically designed for teens includes everything you would expect from any normal gym – minus one addition, arcade games. Out of these arcade games
Read More »Arcade Culture essay at insomnia.ac
[Via Insomnia.ac] ” [It] is the observation that games released in the arcades are of a much higher quality, on average, than games released for the home console market. In other words, if
Read More »Oriental Legend 2 website update
IGS has updated its website for the upcoming brawler Oriental Legends 2. It now contains character profiles, a new video and even a little flash game where you can fighter against one of
Read More »Tekken 6 kit listed on Coinopexpress
Coinopexpress has listed a Tekken 6 kit on the Coming Soon section of their website. They also have it listed for a release on November 30th 2007. Hopefully it will be available in arcades
Read More »DDR SuperNova 2 Location Test
Rithum News has a plethora of photos up of a location test for the next installment of DDR: DDR SuperNova 2. It definently is a good looking game and as always will probably attract
Read More »When a game room becomes an arcade
While I don’t often post about game rooms I think this one is worthy enough for it as this guy has so many games that it’s more of an arcade than a game room.
Read More »Getting the kids into the arcade and Mario Kart GP 3?
In our youth many of us played the classics such as Asteroids, Pac-Man or Defender. But what do the kids these days get out of the arcade? That is an interesting question that is
Read More »Updates at Coinopexpress, DDR and Battle Fantasia
The always interesting and popular distributor Coinopexpress has updated their website with a few new additions. First they have added Konami’s next DDR installment known as Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova 2 as a cab
Read More »No arcade love during e3
Here is something I would like to express my feelings about. The utterly barren wasteland that is news and attention when it comes to coin-operated video games during e3. It is true that there
Read More »Arm Spirit by Atlus
Physical games are becoming more and more popular, from games where you kick, punch or poke objects to test your strength. Well now you can test your muscles with of the another manly sport,
Read More »Sega's Summer Open Day
Sega just held their Summer Open day, showing off a number of interesting arcade titles that will mostly see Japanese releases with a few likely headed overseas. Derby Owner’s Club 2008 is looking pretty
Read More »Tron and Battlezone CG cabinets by Peter Hirschberg
This has been fairly slow week without a lot of news to post about but don’t worry, we’re still here. I’ll put this post into a ‘time waster’ category but a cool time waster
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