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Man assaults Chuck E. Cheese mascot, gets slapped with a fine
Those crazy, overprotective adults who keep on showing up at Chuck E. Cheese locations around the country are at it again and this time, a man who assaulted a CEC mascot has been fined
Read More »Arcade Belgium's look at ATEI 2009
In case you are on the look out for some more ATEI goodness, Arcade Belgium has posted a plethora of very nice high-rez pictures of the event. I guess this will help tide us
Read More »We're going to ASI!
Just a brief note here, I have made all of the arrangements to go to ASI next week, so we’ll be out and about to take video of what’s going on and maybe do
Read More »Sega USA releases Clay Challenge and Bass Fishing Challenge kits
click on the image to enlarge Sega Amusements USA has updated their website with information on two new arcade releases for the US, Clay Challenge (which we revealed in our AMOA 2008 coverage) and
Read More »And the kid stuck in a crane machine today comes from…
While we don’t see these stories of toddlers getting stuck in toy crane machines terribly often, they do seem to show up with some moderate frequency and today the story comes to us from
Read More »Razing Storm gets a few more details with a press release
Namco’s latest light-gun shooter will soon land in arcades (release is listed for March 2009) and in advance of that, Namco America has issued a press release on the game. There isn’t a lot
Read More »Pics of "24" pinball now online
[Thanks to IcePagoda on the forums for the tip] Stern’s latest pinball game, “24” is soon going to hit the streets and with it, Pinball News has got their hands on a prototype of the game
Read More »Arcade games owned by Michael Jackson going up on the auction block
[Thanks to Phil on the forums for the tip] I’m a few days late on this but it’s still newsworthy. Michael Jackson will be auctioning off his rather impressive collection of arcade games on
Read More »Arcade game plots in reverse
On the increasingly popular site Twitter (I did set up an account once but I haven’t really bothered to use it), some people are having a little game of writing about movie plots if
Read More »Some proof that plenty of people still love arcades in Japan
Sorry about the lack of updates for the past few days, everyone is busy and there has been little internet time as of late. You might recall that over the past year or so,
Read More »Listen to sounds from an arcade circa 1982-1988
If you grew up playing games at arcades in the 1980’s then this is bound to bring back some nostaligic memories for you. My earliest arcade memory was from about 1987 or ’88 but
Read More »More people opting to play "arcade-style" games?
While the article we’re linking to on this one doesn’t really have much to do with real coin-op arcades – it treats them as though they don’t exist anymore while it discusses a new
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