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Underground Retrocade Opening Friday In East Dundee, IL
The State of Illinois continues to strengthen its foundation when it comes to arcade venues. It’s already home to several companies that create arcade titles and we’ve had news on various locations opening their
Read More »Atari Trivia # 2 and the Ultimate Atari History Timeline
Continuing our 40 years of Atari celebration comes another interactive trivia quiz game and a detailed history of Atari that has been compiled by Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report over years of his
Read More »Wreck-It Ralph Trailer Hearts Arcades plus Wizard of Oz Pinball Play @ E3
Self-explanatory but check out this trailer for this Disney’s upcoming Wreck-It Ralph film. For those of us who love arcades, I think this will be a big fan service to all of us as
Read More »Hands-on with Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix’s Big Buck HD
It’s E3 week and that means a lot of game news is out and about. Arcades are not dominating that news but they are there in a greater degree than seen previously, such as
Read More »Arcade Trivia Time #1
Being that it is a holiday in the US, I’m not expecting any news to come along but there is a new feature for the site which I figure now is a good time
Read More »Rhythm & Puzzle Blend Together with Magical Beat
Back in November we ran some news about a new rhythm and puzzle game being tested out in Japan by Arc System Works called Magical Beat. Today, we have news about the impending release
Read More »Wrapping up Dubai’s DEAL 2012
A couple of weeks ago the annual DEAL (Dubai Entertainment Amusement & Leisure Show) show took place, where at least one new game was unveiled for the international market, Sega’s new K.O. Drive. We
Read More »Newsbits: Arcade from 1968; Rocky Mountain Expo; Star Castle on the Atari 2600; more Gundam Pilot videos; Retrocade Magazine
Earlier this week the news was quite slow but this latter half has improved a bit, where I have enough to do yet another multi-story post. First off is something I did see a
Read More »Beercade Opens in Omaha, NE
The new location hits just keep on coming, today is news of a “barcade” style venue called Beercade, which has opened its doors in Omaha Nebraska. As one might assume from the name, the
Read More »The Belated Arcade Heroes Podcast – April 2012
It seems like it took place ages ago but we used to do podcasts on a semi-regular basis. Then life got too busy and that went to the wayside. Life is still quite busy
Read More »Dance Core Location Tests Spread Across Asia
A short time ago I had noticed that Wahlap Technologies -producers of such arcade titles seen in the US recently such as Storm Racer, Power Truck and a couple of others – had a
Read More »Videos of Real Steel and a few other Amusement Expo 2012 follow-ups
It looks like post-Amusement Expo discussion isn’t over quite yet. We’ve discussed it a few times but so far we’ve not seen the game in action – Play Mechanix/ICE’s new Real Steel Videmption game.
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