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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
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A Look At the Past, Present And Future of VR
Newsfeed 1190 & 1191 via As a kid I remember hearing news that a new facility had opened its doors that was all about Virtual Reality. I can’t remember the name of the place
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Get Inside Dragon’s Lair
Every arcade game has a story behind its release or the effects of its release years down the road but for the most part, those stories have only been told in brief interviews or
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Museum of Soviet Arcade Games Gets a New Location
For the past few years, we’ve occasionally heard about some retro and basically unknown arcade games that were made in Russia during the waning years of the Soviet Union. Back during the Golden Age
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Two Books About Atari’s Arcade Days Coming In June
Ever since I was a kid, I have had a little infatuation for Atari, starting with the discovery of the Atari 2600 and later on their many other systems and arcade games. So if
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News Round-Up: SpaceWar Turns 50, Namco changes, Capcom Restaurant
Time for yet another round-up of those sort of related news items that I just haven’t felt really needed a post all to themselves. All links brought to us by The Stinger Report. SpaceWar
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Arcade Games Turning 30 this year
For a little over a year we’ve had some talk about games reaching their 30th birthday, in particular with Pac-Man but as this marks the 30th year since 1982, I figure why not take
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And the All-Time favorite Arcade Game ever (at least for 843 people) is…
Newsfeed 1069 via Well this really isn’t hard to guess – it’s not only the best selling arcade game of all-time with somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 units sold, a song was written
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Arcade news you can abuse for the weekend
If you’re in the US then you are possibly travelling somewhere, or hosting visitors for the 4th of July weekend. If not, it’s still a 4-day weekend which is always great to take advantage
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Missing In Action: Run ‘N Gun Games
Given the recent slow news cycle, it’s given me some time to sit down and continue upon my editorial series I call “Missing In Action”. I take a look at a particular genre of
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