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The world of arcades, shown in quarters
Newsfeed 1095 via In lieu of real news, some entertainment that is arcade related both with quarters and in content. This is some great animation work and has a very strong “demo scene” vibe
Read More »New documentary: Star Worlds: A pocket Full of Tokens and I’m Heading to the Arcade
Since The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters made it’s popular debut, we’ve been seeing an increase in documentaries about our industry, although so far they have only focused on classic arcade gaming
Read More »First video of Wizard of Oz pinball whitewood
Jersey Jack Pinball has released the first video of the upcoming Wizard of Oz pinball’s whitewood (aka, early prototype) and while it lacks all of the artwork, toys, rules and scoring which will ultimately
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How to Spice Up your Wedding & Reception: Have an Arcade Gameroom!
I’ve been to plenty of wedding receptions (including my own) but here is something I have never seen done, although it’s crossed my mind – setting up some arcade games for guests to play.
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LED Walls for gaming coming to Sziget Festival in Hungary
Newsfeed 1094 via Here’s an out-of-home entertainment technology that doesn’t really have much to do with our primary focus of arcades admittedly but I could see something like being installed at amusement parks at
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Chuck E. Cheese sees income increase in Q2
Newsfeed 1093 via Following the news of profits up at Bandai Namco is another amusement company seeing increased earnings in Q2 – Chuck E. Cheese, or CEC Entertainment Inc. Net income was up 36%
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Terminator Salvation’s Postmortem in Game Developer Magazine
I’ve been getting Game Developer Magazine for some time now – it’s not your typical game magazine since it’s made for developers in the industry and not so much the gamers. But if you
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Konami testing GuitarFreaks & DrumMania XG3 in Japan
It’s that time of year again – the time for Konami to test out the latest version of their GuitarFreaks and DrumMania arcade music games. I’m sure it will include a variety of new
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Bloggers visit Mike’s CarnEvil arcade in Iowa
Newsfeed 1084 via I wasn’t sure at first how to approach this article on 1up.com entitled “Where Did Arcades Go?”. When I see stuff like the first thought I have is to once again
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Bandai Namco profits up
Newsfeed 1083 via Good news for the people at Namco – despite economic turmoil this year, profits are up for the company (see the 162nd Ferengi Rule of Acquisition for our obligatory geek reference
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