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AOU Pamphlets of Street Fighter IV, Blazblue, Jubeat, more

AOU Pamphlets of Street Fighter IV, Blazblue, Jubeat, more

Shaggy February 15, 2008 1

One site has posted scans of some pamphlets of several games being showcased at AOU. All the text is in Japanese of course but you still can get an idea of what’s going on.

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No Country for Old Arcades Video – Arcade Infinity

No Country for Old Arcades Video – Arcade Infinity

Shaggy February 14, 2008 0

We have mentioned Jared Rea of Gametap a couple of times already – he is going around the country visiting arcades and giving them some mainstream coverage, proving that arcades aren’t “totally dead”  as

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Arcade Exhibit to run in Arizona later this year

Arcade Exhibit to run in Arizona later this year

Shaggy February 14, 2008 0

If you live in Arizona (particularly in a city called Chandler) and spent some time playing classic arcade and home console games of the 70’s and 80’s, then a historian Jean Reynolds is looking

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More positive arcade coverage

More positive arcade coverage

Shaggy February 14, 2008 0

Today I have come across two positive arcade articles, one from Forbes magazine and the other from a blog discussing the state of arcades in the Philippines.  The Forbes article focuses primarily on the

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Missing in Action: Puzzle Games

Missing in Action: Puzzle Games

Shaggy February 14, 2008 7

Missing in Action is an editorial mini-series we are running discussing genres that have all but disappeared in today’s arcade releases, taking a backseat to light-gun shooters or racers. We do not think that

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Street Fighter IV Hi-Res Picture Overload

Street Fighter IV Hi-Res Picture Overload

Twisted Supreme February 12, 2008 0

Just checks out these latest Hi-Res pictures of Street Fighter IV and I dare you not to drawl! I have to saw the more and more I see of this game, the more and

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The Cool Hunters Space Invader Hoodies (and Arcade Table)

The Cool Hunters Space Invader Hoodies (and Arcade Table)

Shaggy February 12, 2008 0

At a site called “The Cool Hunters”, they have a retro arcade cocktail cabinet for sale that comes loaded with a number of classics on it that seems to fit the typical MAME fare.

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Konami's Action Cop cabinet on location test

Konami's Action Cop cabinet on location test

Shaggy February 10, 2008 0

(Click on the image above to enlarge) Thanks to the Stinger Report we have a first look at the cabinet Konami’s new motion-based controller arcade title Action Cop ‘in the wild’. It is currently

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Happy Belated Birthday Nolan Bushnell

Happy Belated Birthday Nolan Bushnell

Shaggy February 9, 2008 0

I feel bad for missing this the other day but on February 5th the founder of our industry (practically the entire video game industry – yeah I know aobut Ralph Baer but Nolan is

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Galactic Front – Freeware coin-op arcade game

Galactic Front – Freeware coin-op arcade game

Shaggy February 9, 2008 0

I came across this on Youtube and have to say that it’s cool to see someone making a new game themselves that’s intended to go into an arcade cabinet as this game is, if

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Preview of Taito's AOU booth

Preview of Taito's AOU booth

Shaggy February 9, 2008 0

(Click on the image above to enlarge) Japanese arcades might be suffering a little at the moment but that won’t cancel the upcoming AOU 2008 show in Japan next week. Thanks to the Stinger

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Street Fighter IV on Viewlix cabinet – uses Taito Type X2 hardware

Street Fighter IV on Viewlix cabinet – uses Taito Type X2 hardware

Shaggy February 8, 2008 4

So I was poking around the Famitsu site a little more to see if there was anything more on SFIV and I had overlooked this article where the editors of that magazine had a

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