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Another update on my arcade (5/28)
The city inspector came by today and unfortunately we didn’t pass – we have to fix a couple of minor things and get it rescheduled. I hope that it won’t take long to get
Read More »Beat The Pro heads to the Midwest this summer.
Via Betson & Raw Thrills/Play Mechnix’s Beat The Pro Tour continues to bring the latest version of Big Buck Hunter Pro Online to players across the US and this June between the 2nd and
Read More »Father & daughter trapped inside a coin-op flight simulator for 20 min.
The headline basically says it all – in Long Island New York at an FEC called Fun Zone Amusements(link to a video of the arcade on youtube) a father and daughter were trapped in
Read More »Location Review : Phoenix Arcade @ The Summit
Here in Niagara Falls, NY there is a mall called The Summit and in addition to the Krow’s Nest with the bowling machines there is another arcade called Phoenix arcade. They have 2 storefronts
Read More »Poll: Would you rather play Street Fighter IV in arcades or on a console @ home?
It’s pretty straight-forward – where would you like to play Street Fighter IV? At the arcade where you can show off your mad skillz for people to gawk at or at home by yourself
Read More »My Arcade Update 5/26 (w/video)
Even though it was a holiday in the US today that didn’t keep me from going in and working on the arcade. This week is the final push to get everything ready and I
Read More »Rambo UK location test: video, impressions
Please note that this article refers to an unfinished version of Rambo – content may substantially change before the game receives a general release! It was only a couple of days ago that I
Read More »Robot Boxing returns to Japan with "GearRobo"
I never played with a Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em robots game as a kid, it seemed ok but too static for my tastes. Now here is an arcade game coming out this summer in
Read More »A New JVS multicabinet – the GBalance
I wish we would see more cabinets (that aren’t for MAME projects) being sold in the US. Perhaps I’m out of the loop on the subject of cabinets and I can’t speak for abroad
Read More »Need For Speed Carbon kit & video
I logged onto youtube tonight and I checked my subscriptions and to my surprise a video of the upcoming Need For Speed Carbon Arcade was on there, by Birmingham Vending. They have been posting
Read More »MTV takes a look at SF's best arcade that "isn't in San Fransisco"
While most mainstream media outlets have been going through a heyday with the erroneous Reuters report that we commented on recently that was focusing on the “dying arcade industry”, one took the time to
Read More »Sega Rally 3 videos
As promised, here’s some of the video footage from the game. I’m putting two videos after the break so as not to slow down the main page with lots of flash stuff. Attract mode
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