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DJ Max Technica coming to the US
(Thanks to Phil on the forums for the tip!) We first talked about DJ MAx Technica a few months ago but we had not heard anything about it since so I wasn’t sure what
Read More »9 year old drives familiy car after some practice on an arcade racer
Are racers more realistic in the arcade than at home? Usually, thanks to the built in steering wheels and pedals that are far more realistic and less clumsy to handle then you generally see
Read More »Castlevania Arcade – Video & Photos
As promised, above the video I got of Castlevania Arcade and below the pictures that I took of Konami’s new game as well as the rest of the Hollywood Bowl arcade, which is a
Read More »Castlevania Arcade – UK Location Test
I doesn’t get any better than this I tell you. I thought I’d swing by the Finchley Hollywood Bowl to play a few games and was extremely pleased to see Castlevania Arcade on test there!
Read More »Konami testing GuitarFreaks V6 & DrumMania V6 "Blazing" in Japan
Konami is location testing the next version of their GuitarFreaks and DrumMania games in Japan (the original use-a-music-instrument-as-a-controller games) and it seems like it wasn’t long ago that they were doing the same with
Read More »Poll Time – Your Favourites?
This weeks question is… On to the last poll results. Nothing particularly radical revealed, but nice to know all same what our readers get up to; I’ll try and make this a weekly thing,
Read More »Mini Football Table
Oh my god, I may have said this before but this is by far the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Your partner won’t let you have a football table in the house because they take
Read More »Namco demonstrates a modded version of MaxiTune 3 that lets users play in a wheelchair
Now this is really cool – we’ve discussed how arcades have been made to be user-friendly for someone with a physical disability, and at least since SF Rush 2049 a lot of racers in
Read More »Location Review: Funland Trocadero, London
Finally! This is something I’ve been meaning to do for longer than i care to mention. Hit the jump at the bottom of this post for my Funland picture overload! Funland Trocadero is a big place,
Read More »Cool arcade badges
When it comes to fashionable wear and design that involves something arcade related, usually you get something based upon iconic arcade characters like Space Invaders or Pac-Man. But that’s not the only place where
Read More »Stern releases CSI pinball image; also faces downsizing
We’ve known about the next game to come along in Stern’s line-up of pins for sometime now and finally we have a prototype image of the cabinet. While at first I personally wondered how
Read More »Sequel to Sea Wolf at IAAPA – Sea Wolf: The Next Mission
When I was at ASI earlier this year, there wasn’t a lot of new content around but there were a few pleasant surprises. The video/redemption game Sea Wolf was one of them as it’s
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