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Location Review – Galaxy World, Sydney
(More picture after the break) The second arcade I visited whilst I was in Australia, which was called Galaxy World, had a great selection of games. The most exciting for me had to be
Read More »Fighter poll results: King of Fighters XII or Street Fighter IV?
A few days ago I posted a poll via Survey Monkey asking a few questions about your thoughts on all of the new fighters coming out of Japan and I have to admit that
Read More »Street Fighter IV "definently" coming to US arcades
This is the kind of news that makes me happy. While I have speculated that SFIV would come to arcades in the US since the game was being developed by Capcom USA, it was
Read More »A look at arcade ports on retro consoles today
Ever since Atari released Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 console, arcade ports have been something of a standard in the console industry. It becomes something of a conundrum however as console releases have
Read More »Arcade Attack – Pinball Character vs. Space Invaders
The things I find on YouTube get weirder and weirder. It starts off as a documentary about pinball machines and the rise of the video game. Especially focused on the game ‘Defender’. A rockabilly
Read More »Big Buck Safari European Flyer
We first saw the latest installment of Big Buck Safari at ATEI this year and we even had some video and a picture or two of the game in action. As this is Raw
Read More »Taito expands their FEC business in Japan
The internet lit up last week when news came of Namco closing a bunch of their arcades and news sites were quick to jump on the news that between the Nintendo Wii and high
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It takes patience to start a new business (update on my arcade)
For those curious, here is another update on the very slow progress for my arcade business, The Game Grid Arcade. I submitted a request to the owners of the store I am looking to
Read More »Poll: Which new arcade Fighter are you most excited for?
I’ve mentioned before that 2008 would shape up to be an interesting year for arcades and so far it certain has become such. With recent game news coming out of AOU we see a
Read More »Location Review – Kingpin Bowling Lounge, Sydney
Some of you may remember that I was over in Sydney for Christmas and I mentioned that I visited a few arcades whilst I was out there. Well here is the first of two long
Read More »Would you wait 90 minutes in line to play SFIV? (AOU 2008)
Just a friendly reminder from us and The Stinger Report that if scenes like the one above means that the arcade scene is totally dead (even in Japan – my guess is Namco probably
Read More »Silver Strike Bowling Sweepstakes video
I really have to hand it to Incredible Technologies – since not every arcade or bar can be relied on to hold arcade game competitions, they’ve taken it upon themselves to run some great
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