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With Midway bankrupt, where will that leave their arcade stuff?
You have probably heard by now that Midway has gone bankrupt and they owe millions of dollars to different companies for various reasons. While Midway stopped making arcade games several years ago (and many
Read More »Namco Bandai’s AOU 2009 website
A few days ago we reported that Sega and Konami had setup websites for AOU 2009 and now Namco Bandai has a page dedicated to what they will be showing off at the event.
Read More »Article: "When the arcades lost their fire"
One great thing about arcades are the memories they create. I think that all of us has a story or two from times we spent at the arcade ‘back in the day’ and the
Read More »Namco talks about arcades, future titles
Highway Games has posted an interview they had with Casey Utsunomiya of Namco Bandai Japan and they discuss Namco’s stance in the arcade industry, their thoughts on it, and future titles. It’s good to
Read More »Dream Arcades releases the Dreamcade Impact cabinet just for fighter games
Street Fighter IV will be out for the consoles in just a few short days and while you could go and buy the Mad Catz sticks to get that supposedly authentic arcade experience, the company
Read More »Sega to scale back operations in Japan, arcades to be affected
Many companies are scaling back in their operations right now and with some arcade companies are being affected as well. That includes Sega, which has announced that they will be “soliciting voluntary retirements” (aka trying to lay off)
Read More »Beck's "Bad Cartridge" grooves to violent arcade games
In a new music video for a song entitled “Bad Cartridge” by the band Beck, they have a tribute to 8-bit gaming – and in a way to arcades as well. I don’t want to
Read More »Want to own an arcade? Get one on eBay!
(Thanks to Jarett Waite for the tip) I get e-mails fairly often from people looking into starting their own arcade business and I think that it’s great that so many people want to get
Read More »Missed news: Cecropia shuts it's doors
(Thanks to Jarett Waite for the tip) I should have been on top of this a while back but somehow it missed my radar until now. Cecropia, the company responsible for creating the coin-op
Read More »Review: War Final Assault by Atari Games
I know that I posted a review not that long ago (of another Atari title, Asteroids Deluxe) but I haven’t had a lot of time to spend on researching news but I did have
Read More »Insert Coin 2009 – UK public arcade expo launches!
It’s a great day for arcade gamers in the UK, as the Insert Coin 2009 expo has been announced! The show will run on July 18th and 19th at the Northampton Saints Conference CentreThe
Read More »Exercise-based arcade opens in Rockford, IL
Video games often come under fire from health police for being a sedentary activity, most recently in a UK television advert for a government backed health campaign which caused a bit of controversy. However,
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