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Be "the Pac-Man" with the Pac-Man Plush Head
Do you love Pac-Man so much that you will make your own costumes or items to appear like the world’s most famous yellow eating machine? Well now you don’t have to – simply buy
Read More »Highway Games Update – Target Toss, Tekken 6 & Sonic Spinner
Here’s another three games added over at Highway Games. Target Toss Pro Bags Target Toss Pro Bags is a new product based on the popular game of beanbag toss, otherwise known as “Bags” or
Read More »Getting the kids into the arcade and Mario Kart GP 3?
In our youth many of us played the classics such as Asteroids, Pac-Man or Defender. But what do the kids these days get out of the arcade? That is an interesting question that is
Read More »Founder of Namco Receives Prestigious Award
[via Barcade] Masaya Nakamura, founder of Namco, was given one of the highest awards one can receive from the Japanese government. Nakamura received the “Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette” in
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review: Crisis Zone by Namco
I apologize about missing this yesterday, I guess I got caught up in the holiday. I thought Transformers was excellent BTW, not a perfect movie but it certainly was worth it. I think before
Read More »Tekken 6 location test in Japan
Tekken 6 will be location testing in Japan this weekend, according to AM-net.Here’s what we can get from the translator about where the location testing will happen. : 7/6 (gold) ~7/8 (day) [namukorando]
Read More »Namco and Taito Sponsored Cars
Following up on the story about the arcade industry’s push to increase peoples awareness, here comes these photos of some of Namco and Taito’s activities. You could argue that these are mainly advertising consumer
Read More »Arcade Innovations
Kevin Williams has posted an interesting article over at SPoNG.com that discusses some of the innovations that the arcade industry brought to video games. From QWAKs! light-gun to Atari Footballs trackball, I, Robot’s 3D
Read More »New Tekken 6 character revealed – Miguel
A new Tekken 6 character has been revealed via Famitsu magazine in Japan. The site Tekken Zaibatsu has a blurry scan of the magazine article and from what we know, the new character’s name
Read More »Shoot The Moon from Namco
[via Coin-Op Today] Within our market there is never a shortage of themed redemption titles, but how many of them are actually fun? With ticket-spitting on the rise, Namco went back to the
Read More »Donkey Kong wants you to JUMP! MAMEJUMP!
This is the funniest thing I have come across in a while. Donkey Kong sings to Van Halen’s Jump while you see a plethora of arcade games that involve jumping (as well as plenty
Read More »New Space Order – another game that probably won't be seen outside of Japan
It’s hard not to be envious of arcade fans in Japan. When it comes to arcades, they get everything including plenty of games that we will never see in the UK or the States.
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