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The Max Experience
Here is another early motion simulator, the Max Experience. It was produced around 1984 or 1985 by a company called Amusement Technology (Amtech) out of Asbury Park, NJ. This strange device designed for both
Read More »The Hot Seat Arcade system of the 1980s
Here is another obscure simulator to ponder. The Hot Seat was a motion based simulator produced in the mid 1980’s. This simulator did not come with any dedicated game, its intention was to be
Read More »The Zamperla Telecombat – The ultimate Game/Ride simulator
In continuing with my efforts to inform the public about different simulator games today I will discuss an unusual piece, the Zamperla Telecombat. This machine is an unusual combination of Amusement Ride crosses arcade
Read More »A detailed history of Atari 1971-1977
Gamasutra has posted a detailed and accurate history of Atari from 1971-1977, a period which covers Atari’s early coin-op days where their coin-op division was primary to any home division at the time. It
Read More »Arcade Flyer Archives up for sale in 2008
Found something interesting while looking through one of my news site scanners – the curator of The Arcade Flyer Archive is going to be selling off a huge portion of his collection to continue
Read More »A look back at Preview '04
It is interesting to take a look back at earlier arcade events and see what has changed and what has stayed the same. Via Kevin Williams of the Stinger Report, he points out an
Read More »Space Ace HD coming this fall to PC, coming next year to HD-DVD and Blu-Ray
Digital Leisure has announced the release of Space Ace HD for PCs, with a release set for sometime in 2008 to the new optical formats HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Thanks to modern technologies the game
Read More »1984 Arcade – Video
Sometimes finding all of the classic arcade games from the 80’s in one place is quite a pain. I’m lucky to have one arcade in my local area that has a good number of
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 »20 Difficult games by Gamasutra – a few arcades mentioned
[Via Joystiq] Arcade games are supposed to be hard. That is just something we all understand, accept and like as arcade gamers. They test your skills, endurance and will-power but hard games also don’t
Read More »Defender Prototype
It’s another slow news day in the arcade world so I thought I would bring up this interesting Defender prototype. One of the things that makes it interesting is the slightly inspired by Star
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