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Finding ReRave
Every modern arcade game should have an online game finder. Now that sounds like an obvious thing to say but it still is not common to find with games these days. Now part of
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Chinatown Fair Re-opens; Sega supports Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Arcade with tournament
Here are two bits of news from opposite sides of the US that I am sure will be of interest to you all, so let’s get to it. It was reported a short time
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Article: What’s Happening With Western Arcades – My Thoughts
Through the day I’ve been following a popular article that was published by Ars Technica, “Whatever Happened To the American Arcade?“. I was contemplating commenting on it and Kevin Williams then sent me the
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Timezone Eyes Further Expansion in 2012 After A Great 2011
(Thanks to Kieran for the tip!) We’ve had a slew of reports of small arcades opening their doors in the US recently but what about news from some larger arcade chains? One chain of
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No Limit Arcade Comes to Algonquin, IL
If you live in or near Algonquin, Illinois then there is a new arcade near you to check out. Called No Limit Arcade, they are following a pattern similar to what Galloping Ghost Arcade
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New documentary: Star Worlds: A pocket Full of Tokens and I’m Heading to the Arcade
Since The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters made it’s popular debut, we’ve been seeing an increase in documentaries about our industry, although so far they have only focused on classic arcade gaming
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Gameworks Entertainment LLC Acquires Gameworks chain
Newsfeed 1049 via Gameworks locations have been through a bumpy ride in recent times. When the news broke that they were going bankrupt and began liquidating locations, it did causea bit of a stir
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The Arcade business of Vegas casinos
Newsfeed 1041 via (Image of the New York-New York Casino arcade via Dragonslairfans.com) The US economy continues to stagnate along with unemployment rising again and one place that is still trying to
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New site for finding arcades (and more): GamerSpots.com
I like to talk up the existence of websites dedicated to finding arcade locations, so I often point out two prominent sites for just that: Aurcade.com and ArcadeFly.com. Now we can add a third
Read More »How to train for Street Fighter IV
Newsfeed 1014 via How does one train to become a master Street FIghter IV player? By running around various parts of Japan carrying an arcade stick to practice your moves in your mind. This
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Chinatown Fair Arcade closing Wednesday? + Ground Kontrol goes 3.0 (UPDATE)
(From inside the Chinatown Fair arcade, GameSetWatch) UPDATE: Both Joystiq and Kotaku have ran stories about this and found out that the closure isn’t completely true – there are some issues with the landlord
Read More »Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade wins Stride's Save The Arcades 2 competition
And by the final tally, it wasn’t even close, with Ground Kontrol pulling in 624,871,000 total points, which were donated to them by players via the Cowbots flash game. Arcade Infinity came in second
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