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City in California makes a loan for new arcade/FEC to open

City in California makes a loan for new arcade/FEC to open

Shaggy December 7, 2008 0

  When I saw this news it had me a little surprised since it always seems like many cities do things to make life harder for an arcade to open these days but that

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Happy (belated) 2nd birthday for Arcade Heroes

Happy (belated) 2nd birthday for Arcade Heroes

Shaggy December 5, 2008 0

This week Arcade Heroes reached it’s second year in existence and I feel bad for missing the actual day – I thought it was today but after some checking it was actually on the

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DJ Max Technika Location Test report

DJ Max Technika Location Test report

Shaggy December 5, 2008 1

[Thanks to Phil Ver 0 on our forums] The new game DJ Max Technika has been testing in California and thanks to one of our readers, we have information on how that has been

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More details on Smart Industries' Battle Stations

More details on Smart Industries' Battle Stations

Shaggy December 4, 2008 0

Among the many new games coming to the market that were shown at IAAPA was Battle Stations, a submarine action game that is coming to us from Smart Industries. Smart generally deals with redemption

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Three more videos from IAAPA with some arcade game footage

Three more videos from IAAPA with some arcade game footage

Shaggy December 4, 2008 0

While I had hoped for more videos of video arcades in action at IAAPA, I suppose that might have been hoping for too much since there is a lot more there than just arcades.

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Three Silver Strike Bowling players win big prizes in time for Thanksgiving

Three Silver Strike Bowling players win big prizes in time for Thanksgiving

Shaggy December 3, 2008 0

This was meant to have been posted on Thanksgiving (last Thursday for the US) but I overlooked the mail then but figured that even though I’m almost a week late, it’s still worth posting.

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Southend Council blocks arcade games on pier

Southend Council blocks arcade games on pier

HeavyElectricity December 3, 2008 1

Councillors in the UK seaside town of Southend are inviting regeneration proposals for the town’s famous pier – and have ruled out arcade games as a prospect. Current indications suggest that the new development

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DJ Max Technika location testing in the US

DJ Max Technika location testing in the US

Shaggy December 3, 2008 0

[Via Aaron Auzins of Bemanistyle.com] We heard that DJ Max Technika would be coming to the US a couple of weeks ago and we’re happy to pass along the news that the game is

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IAAPA Poll: What game are you most looking forward to?

IAAPA Poll: What game are you most looking forward to?

Shaggy December 2, 2008 3

Before we get too far away from IAAPA, I’d like to do a poll concerning games at the show that I meant to do sooner but forgot to. It’s straightforward – of all the

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King Of Fighters XII Japan site updates from teaser to full detail (updated with a translation)

King Of Fighters XII Japan site updates from teaser to full detail (updated with a translation)

Shaggy December 1, 2008 5

Today must be a day for fighters as here is some news on another highly anticipated arcade fighter, KOFXII. While I hadn’t been keeping tabs on the teaser site, what is there now is

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Rumor: Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom arcade release to be delayed by Nintendo?

Rumor: Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom arcade release to be delayed by Nintendo?

Shaggy December 1, 2008 0

A little while ago we received a rumor from several sources stating that the new Capcom arcade fighter Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom would be running on Nintendo Wii based hardware. While this was seemingly confirmed

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The Tetris and Breakout playable piggy banks

The Tetris and Breakout playable piggy banks

Shaggy November 29, 2008 0

  Way back in the early 80’s, at the height of the arcade craze, some companies produced some portable or table-top games based on popular arcade titles. The screens used weren’t anything close to

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