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Happy (belated) 2nd birthday for Arcade Heroes
This week Arcade Heroes reached it’s second year in existence and I feel bad for missing the actual day – I thought it was today but after some checking it was actually on the
Read More »DJ Max Technika Location Test report
[Thanks to Phil Ver 0 on our forums] The new game DJ Max Technika has been testing in California and thanks to one of our readers, we have information on how that has been
Read More »More details on Smart Industries' Battle Stations
Among the many new games coming to the market that were shown at IAAPA was Battle Stations, a submarine action game that is coming to us from Smart Industries. Smart generally deals with redemption
Read More »Three more videos from IAAPA with some arcade game footage
While I had hoped for more videos of video arcades in action at IAAPA, I suppose that might have been hoping for too much since there is a lot more there than just arcades.
Read More »Three Silver Strike Bowling players win big prizes in time for Thanksgiving
This was meant to have been posted on Thanksgiving (last Thursday for the US) but I overlooked the mail then but figured that even though I’m almost a week late, it’s still worth posting.
Read More »DJ Max Technika location testing in the US
[Via Aaron Auzins of Bemanistyle.com] We heard that DJ Max Technika would be coming to the US a couple of weeks ago and we’re happy to pass along the news that the game is
Read More »IAAPA Poll: What game are you most looking forward to?
Before we get too far away from IAAPA, I’d like to do a poll concerning games at the show that I meant to do sooner but forgot to. It’s straightforward – of all the
Read More »King Of Fighters XII Japan site updates from teaser to full detail (updated with a translation)
Today must be a day for fighters as here is some news on another highly anticipated arcade fighter, KOFXII. While I hadn’t been keeping tabs on the teaser site, what is there now is
Read More »Rumor: Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom arcade release to be delayed by Nintendo?
A little while ago we received a rumor from several sources stating that the new Capcom arcade fighter Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom would be running on Nintendo Wii based hardware. While this was seemingly confirmed
Read More »The Tetris and Breakout playable piggy banks
Way back in the early 80’s, at the height of the arcade craze, some companies produced some portable or table-top games based on popular arcade titles. The screens used weren’t anything close to
Read More »IAAPA 2008: Final Round-up (now with some release dates)
We’ve received a final batch of pictures from the IAAPA show in Florida (thanks again to Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report)and it’s only fitting to ‘finalize’ our coverage of the event. Overall I
Read More »How much would you pay for an arcade poster? Would you pay $1400+?
[Thanks to Oga Shi for the tip] One cool thing I miss about arcades is that they use to produce a poster for every game that the operator could put up as advertising for
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