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The NBA Jam Pitch Video
When you have an idea and you are seeking a goal like funding or further approval, the pitch is an important part of the development process. A bad pitch can sink a project early,
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Halloween special: Zombies at the arcade!
(Updated: I ran this story back in 2010 but have given it some brushing up in 2013) If you are into video games at all, then you have likely noticed the big fad these
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Exclusive: The last coin-op project at Midway Chicago, RIP SQUAD: Raids Against the Reich
Back in 2001, Midway made a decision to dump their long standing coin-op division in favor of focusing developments on console gaming. When that decision came down, there were still some arcade games floating
Read More »Rochester Game Room Show Coverage
I am sorry I am a little late with the coverage but here’s some videos from last week’s Rochester Game Room Show: Overview Part 1 Overview Part 2 Some of the parts that were
Read More »Midway turns to Out-of-Home to secure line of credit
The National Amusement Inc., operation has replaced the previous Wells Fargo Foothill agreement, to secure credit facilities for the crippled Midway consumer game operation. The $97.4 million loss during 2007 the worse admittance of
Read More »'Joust' coming to the big screen and comic books
[Via Gamedaily BIZ] Not long ago I was reading about upcoming movies for 2008 and the rest of 2007 on imdb and I noticed a disturbing trend of video game based movies that are
Read More »When a game room becomes an arcade
While I don’t often post about game rooms I think this one is worthy enough for it as this guy has so many games that it’s more of an arcade than a game room.
Read More »Tron and Battlezone CG cabinets by Peter Hirschberg
This has been fairly slow week without a lot of news to post about but don’t worry, we’re still here. I’ll put this post into a ‘time waster’ category but a cool time waster
Read More »Defender Prototype
It’s another slow news day in the arcade world so I thought I would bring up this interesting Defender prototype. One of the things that makes it interesting is the slightly inspired by Star
Read More »Southern California Classic Collector's (SC3) Meeting on 5/12/07
Every time I hear about groups of arcade collectors coming together to play, it’s always far away from where I live. These events are always great fun though, allowing you to get together with
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