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UBeat (known in Japan as Jubeat) USA location test info

Shaggy September 14, 2008 0

Konami has decided to test out their latest bemani title UBeat in the US and thanks to one of our readers and forum members, Phil Arrington, we have a look at this interesting new

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Highway Games cancels involvement with the T2 Xbox 360 arcade station

Shaggy September 14, 2008 0

After word came around that the “Arcade Station T2” was in fact not being endorsed by Microsoft, we see the dominoes falling fast as Highway Games, the site that was part of the promotion

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Last bit of AMOA stuff – Stern’s Spiderman redemption game and Jet Ball

Shaggy September 14, 2008 0

I’ve pretty much covered everything that I experienced at AMOA 2008 and overall I came away satisfied, much happier than I was with ASI (no offense to those who worked hard on bringing ASI

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Incredible Technologies @ AMOA 2008 – Power Putt Golf, Golden Tee LIVE 2009 & a new cabinet design

Shaggy September 13, 2008 2

Incredible Technologies was also at AMOA with a large and eye-catching booth where they were showcasing all of their games that are currently for sale in a new cabinet that features a smaller footprint

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GlobalVR @ AMOA 2008 – Need For Speed Carbon, NASCAR & talking with John Ray

Shaggy September 13, 2008 5

Sorry about the delay in completing my AMOA coverage – I just wasn’t at a proper computer to do so most of yesterday. But now getting back into it here is some information I

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Seen at Andamiro's booth – Arcana Heart 2 (AMOA 2008)

Shaggy September 12, 2008 4

This came as a surprise – I was wandering around the show near the GlobalVR booth and between two Pump It Up games I see two Japanese candy cabs housing a fighter in them.

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Sega @ AMOA 2008 – Rambo, Sega Rally 3 & Clay Challenge

Shaggy September 12, 2008 5

I was happy to see that Sega had a stonger presence at AMOA than they did at ASI and it was great to finally get a chance to play games like Rambo and Sega

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Raw Thrills' @ AMOA 08 – Nicktoons Nitro, Big Buck Safari Online & Eugene Jarvis!

Shaggy September 12, 2008 0

Continuing with our AMOA ’08 coverage we’ll start with the first video game booth I saw at the show, Betson/Raw Thrills’. They had a spacious booth that was spearheaded by six Nicktoons Nitro games

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Back from AMOA ’08 – some thoughts, impressions and a fire UPDATED

Shaggy September 12, 2008 1

I’m back from AMOA 2008 and it was fun. I got to see many new games that are coming to the States, talk with great people and come away with video and impressions of

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Say hello to Friction – a new arcade company and a new game UPDATED

Shaggy September 10, 2008 7

AMOA is here and with it plenty new stuff to talk about. But today we don’t have just any news to talk about – it’s not every day we get to introduce to you

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Before I leave for AMOA…

Shaggy September 10, 2008 0

This is likely to be one of my last posts for the next couple of days as tomorrow morning I will be headed out to AMOA in Las Vegas. I have co-ordinated the trip

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Article: The United States of Street Fighter IV

Shaggy September 10, 2008 1

Here is another take on what is going on with SFIV right now by Jared Rea and for those interested he also has some pictures of what some operators are doing with their kits,

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