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Editorial: Should Coin-Op Arcade Games be a part of E3?
E3 (i.e. Electronic Entertainment Expo) is upon us once again this next week, where gamers, journalists, developers, publishers and their “booth babes” come together to show off the latest, greatest video games people will enjoy later in the year for home consoles and PC – all minus arcade games. The event is described by »
Street Fighter IV 3D Arcade version? Plus many more games from China
Newsfeed 1024 via A few days ago we posted a couple of pictures from Wahlap Technologies, a distributor based out of Taiwan, showing a couple of new games from a trade event that they attended in China. Here are the rest of the pictures from that particular trade show where we see that Sega, »
Amusement Expo ’11 Preview
It’s March and that means it’s time for Amusement Expo (formerly ASI). Last year there were a few announcements to talk about before the show but so far this year has been a little more low key. Still, there are some games to look forward to, here is what we know for sure will »
Initial D6 Arcade Stage and Super Monkey Ball Ticket Blitz Promo trailers
Sega has a new arcade racer coming out next on the 3rd but for some strange reason, they didn’t give the game any booth space at AOU2011. That game is Initial D Arcade Stage 6 AA, and today they have released a new promotional trailer for the game. They also have indicated that players »
TouchFX now in single and double screen models + special edition Fruit Ninja FX model
Since IAAPA 2010, we have only seen Adrenaline Amusements‘ new coin-op platform, the TouchFX, in a triple screen configuration. The company promised single and double screen models and now according to this page on BMIGaming.com, those models are now available for venues to purchase. With this news, we also have a list of launch »
Billy Mitchell opens the King of Kong Arcade
The quest for the high score to the Donkey Kong arcade machine was made famous by the documentary, The King of Kong, A Fistful of Quarters. Thanks to that film, the rivalry between Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe is now something of legend and also thanks to that film, there is now an arcade »
Adrenaline Amusement’s TouchFX now available
One of the nice surprises about IAAPA this past November was the appearance of a new product by Adrenaline Amusements, a company based out of Toronto, Canada. It was called TouchFX and it offered something different than most everything else on the show floor with a multi-touch 46″ screen along with the promise of »
The return of VR?
Newsfeed 990 via Technology has a funny way of working at times. Occasionally, ideas were too far ahead of their time or the technology didn’t live up to the ambition of the idea behind it all. In many instances, technology which is grabbing the spotlight once again was tried out at one point in »
Pac-Man Battle Royale now shipping
When Namco was revealing the different ways in which they celebrated Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary last year, no one product they revealed was more surprising than Pac-Man Battle Royale. We first got a chance to play the game at Amusement Expo 2010 in Las Vegas in March, and a few months later others in the »
REVIEW: Pac-Man Battle Royale by Namco
PAC-MAN BATTLE ROYALE DEVELOPER: Bandai Namco (Visit Namco America’s website) PUBLISHER: Bandai Namco RELEASE: January 2011 TYPE: Competitive maze PLAYERS: 1-4, simultaneous HARDWARE: “System 157”, custom board with specs unknown (also used in Namco’s Pac-Man’s Arcade Party) ARCADE EXCLUSIVE?: Yes RATING: Green Label – Suitable for All Ages REGION AVAILABILITY: Worldwide SYNOPSIS: From Namco »
REVIEW: Friction by Friction Game Studios
FRICTION Developer: Friction Game Studios Publisher: Coast-to-Coast Entertainment Release: April 2011 (kit) ; Summer 2011 (dedicated, Asia only) Type: Light-gun shooter Players: 1-2, simultaneous Hardware: PC with a custom I/O board ARCADE EXCLUSIVE?: Yes Rating: Optional – Yellow Label (Animated Violence) or Red Label (Life Like Violence) depending on setting by operator Synopsis: Fend »
Crazy Speed Arcade goes Super
At IAAPA 2010 I had a chance to check out Crazy Speed Arcade for the first time at the UNIS booth. They had four units setup there, two in English and two in Spanish. It appears that the company who developed the CSA software released an enhanced version of the game earlier last year »
