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Leftover arcades wasting away at the Nara Dreamland
Newsfeed 1115 via and GameSetWatch When an amusement park or other large FEC goes out of business,they often leave some stuff behind. Perhaps there wasn’t enough interest from buyers at the time or the
Read More »Big Buck Hunter 2011 World Championship Starts Tomorrow
(Thanks to Kelly for the info) It’s that time again, time for the best Big Buck Hunters from around the world come together and duke it out – in a virtual sense – for
Read More »Sega releases RaceTV to R-Tuned conversion kit
It’s been a little while since we had a kit release to discuss but Sega Amusements sent out a release today for one. If you happen to have a Sega RaceTV unit, you can
Read More »Blazing Angels gets a new cabinet release
(Tip via The Stinger Report) In 2008 GlobalVR brought the popular console title Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII out to arcades in a deluxe sit-down cabinet. There haven’t been many entries in recent years
Read More »The Konami Arcade Championship 2011 coming to Japan next week
Newsfeed 1114 via One strength of arcade games is that their skill-based nature allows for great competitions, some of which are worthy of dramatized documentaries. Some games are more skill-based than others and when
Read More »The DIY Crane: NXT Claw Game
(Thanks to Joe for the Tip; via Makezine.com) Filed under the “Legos/Erector Sets/Etc., Is there Anything They Can’t Do?” category
Read More »Celebrate Donkey Kong’s Birthday this Weekend @ Star Worlds Arcade Classic Game Celebration
Many great games came out 30 years ago in 1981 and plenty of those games are iconic enough to hold players attention today. Among the more famous ’81 titles is Donkey Kong which has
Read More »Race Simulator Center opening in Montreal Canada in November
One part of the arcade experience that we occasionally touch on is the area of simulators. Simulating something from real life as closely as possible is something that can often be done pretty well
Read More »Ye Olde Coin-Op Games
(Thanks for the tip Imran!) While our primary obsession here has to do with either coin-op video games or pinball, there was a time before the video age where you still could get coin-op
Read More »JAMMA ’11: Operation GHOST; Taito TypeX3 specs; Block King
JAMMA is wrapping up and one thing that means is that more videos are now on te web of what was at the show. There was no big annoucement for some new Sega hardware
Read More »JAMMA ’11: Videos of Taito booth & Games; TypeX3 and Virtua Tennis 4 pics
Continuing the coverage of JAMMA 2011 in Japan (which is taking place along with the Tokyo Game Show in the hopes of improving attendance) we have some videos of the products to be seen
Read More »JAMMA ’11: Sega shows Virtua Tennis 4; Various Namco titles; Taito TypeX3 + more
The 49th Japanese Amusement Machine Show (better known as the JAMMA show) is upon us and as expected, new games are here to be seen. News will be trickling out in waves over the
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