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Listen to sounds from an arcade circa 1982-1988
If you grew up playing games at arcades in the 1980’s then this is bound to bring back some nostaligic memories for you. My earliest arcade memory was from about 1987 or ’88 but
Read More »More people opting to play "arcade-style" games?
While the article we’re linking to on this one doesn’t really have much to do with real coin-op arcades – it treats them as though they don’t exist anymore while it discusses a new
Read More »AOU 2009 Video goodness
The proverbial floodgates have opened on videos taken at AOU 2009 and here is a collection of some of the video titles. We won’t know for a little while if any of these games
Read More »AOU 2009 news: Border Break unveiled
At AOU 2009, Sega has fully revealed their new mech game Border Break. This will be made by their arcade division crown jewel AM2, and powered by their new RingEdge hardware. They also have
Read More »Sega reveals specs on its new arcade hardware, RingEdge and RingWide
(image via AM-Net) The hardware which caused some to erroneously think that Sega was jumping back into the console business has been revealed and we now see that there are actually two configurations, thus
Read More »Justice League: Heroes United now available
According to my local distributor, GlobalVR’s Justice League arcade title should now be available at a variety of distributors across the country and that means that it won’t be long before it will start
Read More »More AOU 2009 news: Castlevania Arcade released, Border Break details, new hardware from SIE
There’s more to talk about from AOU 2009, with plenty of exciting new Japanese arcade game news… Konami: Castlevania: The Arcade is now available in Japan. I have checked with Konami to see when
Read More »AOU 2009 stuff : Yea for more games!
The arcade scene in Japan is starting to get a taste of what’s to come, and while the show has not officially started yet, several different Japanese manufacturers’ AOU 2009 websites have been updated
Read More »How's this for an air hockey table?
What would you do if you had a 103″ plasma screen laying around? Why turn it into a touch screen air hockey game of course! At least that’s what they did in Amsterdam for
Read More »Storm-G, Sega’s latest amusement attraction game ride
If there is one thing Sega loves, it’s making arcade titles that are also amusement rides in and of themselves. They are continuing this trend with their latest offering called Storm-G, a bobsledding game
Read More »A tour of the Game On show in Brisbane Australia
This past weekend marked the end of the Game On show in Brisbane Australia. If you have not heard of Game On, it is a “travelling, playable, history of videogames launched in 2002, at
Read More »Some more details on H2Overdrive (including a release date)
We saw Raw Thrills’ and Specuilar Interactive’s new H2Overdrive at ATEI a few weeks ago (and we even captured some video of the game in action) but it’s hard not to want to see
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