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The arcade goodness of Comic-Con
My brief hiatus is over now after I had been out in the wilderness camping. It was quite fun but with it over, back to the news of the arcade world. It doesn’t look
Read More »Sony makes a Ratchet & Clank arcade cabinet for Comic-Con
(Thanks to Aaron for the tip!) When you want to set your video game apart at a major event there are many ways to try and do that and in recent memory, the trend
Read More »Mini-cabinets for Space Invaders and Street Fighter II
Newsfeed 1072 via and also thanks to Andrew for a tip as well! Not every arcade cabinet has to take up a small room’s worth of space – although for them to actually
Read More »Monday Variety Post: Reflect Beat goes Lime; Retro mini-cabs, New Arcade Book
“It’s all of your favorite hits with more variety”, variety being the radio code word for “you are going to hate most of the schlock we play with a few decent songs you actually
Read More »Quirky cabs: SFIV 3D, Virtual Boy Arcade, King of Hunting
Newsfeeds 1055-1057 via Here are a few strange cabinets where the chances of coming across them are pretty slim. First is a cabinet we’ve seen before from a trade show in China – the
Read More »Hanging out at the arcade, 80’s style
(Pic by Conrado4; and Xybots is such an awesome game) I saw this on Kotaku this morning about a set of pictures on Flickr.com entitled “Growing Up In Arcades: 1979-1989“. I have a slightly
Read More »From The Floor Of The FER Interazar 2011 in Spain
There was an arcade expo in Spain this past week and thanks to Yerdito, we have pictures of the games seen at the show. There were a few familiar faces on hand, along with
Read More »Konami unveils Steel Chronicle in Japan
In the first new game announcement we’ve seen since the Great Kanto earthquake, Konami has unveiled a new mech battle game called Steel Chronicle. Not content to sit around while Namco and Sega have
Read More »Street Fighter IV 3D Arcade version? Plus many more games from China
Newsfeed 1024 via A few days ago we posted a couple of pictures from Wahlap Technologies, a distributor based out of Taiwan, showing a couple of new games from a trade event that they
Read More »Videos of the American Classic Arcade Museum Room at PAX East 2011
As I mentioned in the previous post, among the arcade love at PAX East, was a room dedicated to nothing but great classic games, provided by the American Classic Arcade Museum (ACAM). Thanks to
Read More »Battleblock Theater as an arcade @ PAX East
Newsfeed 1016 via If you follow news in the console world, then there is one event that has taken place this past weekend that is pretty much impossible to avoid – Penny Arcade Expo
Read More »TouchFX now in single and double screen models + special edition Fruit Ninja FX model
Since IAAPA 2010, we have only seen Adrenaline Amusements‘ new coin-op platform, the TouchFX, in a triple screen configuration. The company promised single and double screen models and now according to this page on
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