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Coming to an arcade near you – plastic tokens?
A few days ago we reported about the use of e-payment for the coin-op gaming industry. But what if you’re not ready to switch to e-payments just yet but you wish to save money
Read More »Southern California Classic Collector's (SC3) Meeting on 5/12/07
Every time I hear about groups of arcade collectors coming together to play, it’s always far away from where I live. These events are always great fun though, allowing you to get together with
Read More »Review of the week – Blazing Star for NeoGeo
I’m a little late on this one, but it’s no big deal. I hope you enjoyed last week’s review of Balloon and Balloon. This week I am covering Blazing Star, for the NEO GEO
Read More »BattleGear 4 videos
Hey racing fans, Taito has a page up that shows a bunch of videos from their arcade racing game Battle Gear 4. The page is in Japanese but once you use the Google translator,
Read More »GuitarFreaks v3 and Drum Mania v3 Site; also GFv3 location testing
While I am not sure how long this has been up, I have found a Japanese site dedicated to two bemani games, Guitar Freaks v3 and Drum Mania v3. The site is ran by
Read More »GlobalVR completes testing on EA NASCAR Racing; gets great reviews
GlobalVR has announced that they have finished testing their latest racing title, EA Sports NASCAR Racing and it received “rave reviews” from people that tried it out. They tested the game in several locations
Read More »DreamArcades Cabaret model 2.0 now available
Not up to building your own MAME cabinet? As home arcade cabinets that bunch a lot of games into one cabinet are all the rage these days, there are plenty of companies willing to
Read More »First images of the next King of Fighters out!
The official SNKP Blog (Japanese) has released the first images of the next King of Fighters that will hit the arcades, KOF A Maximum Impact Regulation A (not a mouthful, is it?). The new
Read More »Arcade employee and woman file charges against each other over token fight
How’s this for teaching your kids how to act when you don’t get what you want? In Augusta, GA two women, an arcade employee and a mother, got into a fight over game tokens.
Read More »UK Arcade owners blasts new licensing fees
This is a sad bit of news out of Minehead UK, where a local government has taken it upon themselves to increase licensing fees for arcade operators and not just a little bit
Read More »Mario Kart GP 2 available, new features listed
Once again BHM Vending seems to have the leg up on other distributors (or they just happen to update their website more frequently) when it comes to the hot new arcade games that will
Read More »Look out DDR: LightSpace technology can bring other types of foot-controlled games to the arcade
For years Dance Dance Revolution (and similar clones) has reigned supreme in the video game world when it comes to foot-controlled video games. Well move over DDR because here comes LightSpace. Lightspace is an
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