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Arcade Heroes Impressions on i-Go's Panzer Elite
I visited my local distributor again and they had a few new games in stock. One of those games included something that I saw on the reports for London Preview 08 and that was
Read More »Panoramic Mech Simulator Arcades in Japan
(Click to enlarge) While these aren’t anything new (there is a review of these from sometime ago at insomnia.ac) they are always cool to look at and even cooler to play. Gizmodo takes a
Read More »More price drops on games
While looking around some distributor websites, I noticed some further price drops on games. For example the Deluxe version of Aliens: Extermination is now only $8975 where before it had been $11k. This probably
Read More »The Act Conversion Kit purchased!
Recently we mentioned that Cecropia, makers of the coin-op title called The Act had cancelled that game for the arcade market. I was pleased to find out however that a number of kits were
Read More »London Preview 08 – Stinger looks at Arcades in 08 – Part I – Sega
[Thanks to The Stinger Report] The London 08 Preview is over and with it information on what we can expect to see in arcades next year. Many thanks to Kevin Williams and The Stinger
Read More »The Stinger Report looks at upcoming Sega titles
[The Stinger Report] The latest Stinger Report takes a look at some Sega titles shown off at private shows in September, including Primeval Hunt that we posted about not long ago. The Stinger reveals
Read More »Video – Arcade Warehouse raid, 2001
Now this is arcade heaven – video of a warehouse ‘raid’ in March 2001 by JWC, SteveW and Exidy (screen names of course – I used to correspond with JWC back in 2001 or
Read More »Slikstiks, illuminated joysticks
While browsing the internet I came across something that I forgot about from a few years ago – SlikStik Illuminated Joysticks. It looks like the company behind these mostly specializes in control panels for
Read More »Another arcade acquisition – Tetris
Hot on the heels of the Warlords cocktail I ended up buying a Tetris cabinet today (Saturday on my time) for only $100. I was at work when someone who knows about my interest
Read More »My latest arcade purchase – Warlords Cocktail cabinet
Well I have just bought my first game using funds for my arcade and it’s not a new game, in fact it’s older than I am (by a year or so) – Warlords (Cocktail
Read More »Pics from this years California Extreme event!
(Photos Courtesy of Ataricade (www.ataricade.com)) The California Extreme(CAX) event has come and gone but with it are a ton of pics! Here we are reposting many pictures taken by user Ataricade (who runs an
Read More »Over 1,700 Arcade Game Manuals
Wow! Now this is a truly amazing resource, thanks to Kotaku for pointing this out. [ASCII by Jason Scott via Waxy.org] [Over 1,700 Arcade Game Manuals] [Discuss on the Forum
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