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KOF 98 to return to arcades

KOF 98 to return to arcades

Shaggy November 29, 2007 0

KOF 98 is the generally considered the best in the ‘King of Fighters’ series, defining what makes a 1-on-1 arcade fighter great. I happen to agree with the statements discussing how awesome KOF ’98

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Tekken 6 Officially Released In Japan

Tekken 6 Officially Released In Japan

Twisted Supreme November 28, 2007 1

 At last Namco has announced the start of the availability of Tekken 6. I’m impressed with how quickly this has come a long and also the ammount of videos of the location tests that having been

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Want in on The Act?

Want in on The Act?

Shaggy November 27, 2007 0

I have received word from Cecropia that a full cabinet as well as a kit are up on eBay for their cancelled coin-op title The Act. You have probably already seen the footage I’ve

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Dream Arcades launches their DreamCade Vision 120

Dream Arcades launches their DreamCade Vision 120

Shaggy November 27, 2007 0

Hot on the heels of the Voyager Arcade news comes this press release about Dream Arcades’ new DreamCade Vision 120 which packs 145 classic games onto a MAME PC along with a pre-built control

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Namco getting ready to sue the pants off Voyager Arcade

Namco getting ready to sue the pants off Voyager Arcade

Shaggy November 27, 2007 0

See this cabinet above? It probably won’t be around much longer. If you are into arcades at all, you can’t surf the internet without running into one of these MAME-enabled cabinets that someone decided

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Asteroids blasting its way to XBLA Wednesday

Asteroids blasting its way to XBLA Wednesday

Shaggy November 27, 2007 0

  (click to enlarge) We don’t mention arcade remakes coming to XBLA that often but I felt that this one is worth mentioning as it’s Asteroids. That’s right, Atari mighty classic makes it way

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What Have We Been Playing This Week….

What Have We Been Playing This Week….

Twisted Supreme November 26, 2007 1

Shaggy has gone back to the Wii classic Wii Sports and I have been playing, among other things, Sonic and Mario at the Olympic, which some are dubbing Wii Sports 2. Shaggy  -Warlords (Arcade)

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Location Review: Voyager Entertainment – Stansted Airport

Location Review: Voyager Entertainment – Stansted Airport

Twisted Supreme November 26, 2007 0

Now it’s always a bonus when you come across an arcade at the airport. Firstly it’s a great way to kill time and secondly stops me drinking too much at the airport bar and

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Horse Riders Location Test

Horse Riders Location Test

Shaggy November 25, 2007 0

(Click on the image to enlarge) I don’t know much about this game but while on the Konami site looking at information about Action Detective I caught that this other coin-op title from Konami

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Konami's Action Detective Heads to location test

Konami's Action Detective Heads to location test

Shaggy November 25, 2007 0

[Via The Stinger Report] (Click on the image above to enlarge) Since I first heard about this a month or two ago I have been eager to find out more about Konami’s new 3D

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SquareEnix heats up Japanese card game scene with The Lord of Vermillion

SquareEnix heats up Japanese card game scene with The Lord of Vermillion

Shaggy November 24, 2007 1

It looks like coin-operated trading card RPG titles are here to stay (at least in Japan – it still remains to be seen how well these games will catch on overseas although reports say

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Insert Coins To Continue – Edge Arcade Article – Nov '98

Insert Coins To Continue – Edge Arcade Article – Nov '98

Twisted Supreme November 23, 2007 1

  I was rooting through all my old issues of Edge’s this week and came across this great article about the arcade industry in the late nineties. This was also the period when Edge

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