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IGS prepping Speed Rider for arcades

IGS prepping Speed Rider for arcades

Shaggy October 6, 2009 0

While Taiwanese company IGS is mostly known for their work with 2D games, they are slowly exploring the 3D realm with titles like their upcoming racer, Speed Rider. Some information on SR was seen

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Classic Arcade 3D pixel art

Classic Arcade 3D pixel art

Shaggy October 6, 2009 0

In the world of computer graphics, one idea that is starting to gain a lot of attention (even though the concept has been around for quite a while with some games using the technology)

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Super Street Fighter IV *might* get an arcade release

Super Street Fighter IV *might* get an arcade release

Shaggy October 3, 2009 10

Oh boy, here we go. I for one will not be putting a lot of faith into Capcom for this until we see it. For more perspectives, AH contributors Kevin Williams and Aaron Auzins

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Videos from the first DDR US championship qualifier in Dallas

Videos from the first DDR US championship qualifier in Dallas

Shaggy October 3, 2009 1

The headline says it all. Despite the fact that Konami didn’t give this a lot of hype, it looks like turnout was pretty good at the first qualifier wjhich was held in Dallas. [Discuss

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Game releases for this week: Twisted, BBH: Open Season, GT2010 and in Japan, Tank! Tank! Tank! (updated)

Game releases for this week: Twisted, BBH: Open Season, GT2010 and in Japan, Tank! Tank! Tank! (updated)

Shaggy October 3, 2009 0

UPDATE: I forgot to add Golden Tee 2010 which was also released this week It’s been a little while since I did a “releases this week” post since news has been a little slow

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More details on Namco's new pirate-themed light-gun game "Dead Storm Pirates"

More details on Namco's new pirate-themed light-gun game "Dead Storm Pirates"

Shaggy October 2, 2009 11

UPDATE: Thanks to Aaron Auzins for the correct translation of the game’s name. I knew pirates was at the end of that but wasn’t sure about the rest so it’s good to have a

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VecArcade – Vectrex in an arcade cabinet

VecArcade – Vectrex in an arcade cabinet

Shaggy October 2, 2009 0

One of the overlooked reasons for the “Great Game Crash” back in 1983 or so was the fact that you didn’t have three consoles competing with each other – you had several (up to

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Some links to end the day on, mostly regarding facility news

Some links to end the day on, mostly regarding facility news

Shaggy October 1, 2009 0

I have a bit of catching up to do so I am going to consolidate a couple of links that were sent to me by Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report into one post,

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Arcade Heroes Podcast #8 – Discussion and new details on Dark Presence  +more w/ Aaron Auzins

Arcade Heroes Podcast #8 – Discussion and new details on Dark Presence +more w/ Aaron Auzins

Shaggy September 30, 2009 8

Here is the next podcast and joining me this week was AH contributor Aaron Auzins. Aaron had the opportunity to visit a few arcade related sites in Chicago in August and in addition to

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SFIV update teaser website; called SFIV New Warrior

SFIV update teaser website; called SFIV New Warrior

Shaggy September 28, 2009 0

Capcom has launched a site which teases us with the new SFIV update and while details are scarce right now (like it was when the game was originally teased) we at least know what

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A developers diary on the canceled American Idol coin-op game

A developers diary on the canceled American Idol coin-op game

Shaggy September 26, 2009 6

It’s been about a year now but last October, we received a tip about an American Idol coin-op game that was being brought to market by Raw Thrills’. Not long after that, the game

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Videos from JAMMA including Shining Force Cross,KOF Sky Stage, Giant Tetris, taito's table flipping game and more

Videos from JAMMA including Shining Force Cross,KOF Sky Stage, Giant Tetris, taito's table flipping game and more

Shaggy September 26, 2009 11

Who wants just still photos of an event when you can have videos? Sega’s Shining Force Cross. This is less like Gauntlet than I imagined it might be but it’s still cool. I really

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