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Heat activated arcade mugs

Shaggy February 4, 2010 0

You know it’s always a little slow when we start posting arcade-related merchandise for posts. So here we go: I think of these as psuedo-arcade mugs as these don’t use licensed content – just

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Capcom posting profits, Namco losses; where do their arcade divisions stand?

Shaggy February 3, 2010 12

It’s that time where we start to receive news about different public companies and their profit or loss over a certain period of time. These glimpes generally mention the arcade division of said companies

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Arcade Heroes Podcast #12 – New games at EAG and more

Shaggy February 3, 2010 1

Here’s our 12th podcast – I know I haven’t been keeping up with these on a weekly basis as I had wanted to originally but we’re still getting them done when there is enough

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Check out these Atari glasses

Shaggy February 2, 2010 1

Most of the news regarding Atari over the past few years has been negative – of the company barely holding on, churning through CEO’s at an alarming pace and not releasing many games that

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See EAG in 3D!

Shaggy February 2, 2010 0

I must have missed the announcement that Youtube has special options for 3D videos now, but here’s some evidence of that. It’s a small tour of EAG 2010 in glorious 3D, and according to

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Sega announces Hummer Standard availability

Shaggy February 1, 2010 0

We don’t normally see press releases come along on a Sunday but sometimes, they just happen. Sega Amusements USA has announced the availability of HUMMER Standard edition, which was seen at both IAAPA and

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The Big Buck Hunter Pro Pinball promotional video

Shaggy January 29, 2010 0

(Thanks for the tip igo!) Stern is living up to the promise of improving the marketing behind new pinball machines, as we see here with a new promotional video for Big Buck Hunter Pro

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Konami details their AOU 2010 line-up

Shaggy January 29, 2010 1

Thanks to and Aaron Auzins for the info. EAG and ATEI aren’t the only shows to talk about in the arcade world these days as AOU 2010 in Japan is coming up before too

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Brief video of Sega’s Let’s Go Island UPDATED

Shaggy January 28, 2010 4

I don’t have a lot of time to post at the moment but figured I should get to this now. It’s a video from EAG 2010 of Let’s Go Island by Sega. The framerate

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First pics from the big arcade show in London called EAG 2010 by Kevin Williams UPDATED

Shaggy January 27, 2010 7

Thanks to Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report, we have a first look at the European Amusement and Gaming Expo 2010. To give you an idea of some of the games you’ll see by

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Sega partners with Alton Towers Resort in the UK

Shaggy January 26, 2010 4

One great thing about theme parks around the world is that they are still homes to significant arcades. Sega Europe announced today that they are partnering with the Alton Towers Resort (located in Staffordshire,

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Sega testing UFO Balance Catcher in Japan

Shaggy January 23, 2010 2

We usually only post about cranes when they do something interesting or feature a weird product inside and while the latest version of Sega’s UFO Catcher doesn’t feature anything weird to catch by it’s

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