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More articles on the perceived state of the arcade industry
It’s been a slow couple of days for arcade news but amongst the slowdown there are a few articles worth noting that deal with the “arcades are dead” consensus. As you know I personally
Read More »Arcade-in-a-box Tournament Center opens in Tuscon, AZ
If you are looking to open up an entertainment business, whether it is an arcade or something similar, one modern twist on the coin-op arcade center model is to open a place where people
Read More »Raw Thrills'/Play Mechanix unveil Big Buck Hunter: Open Season
While a vast majority of news about new arcade titles has been coming out of Japan lately, AMOA is almost here and that means some game news from outside Japan for a change. This
Read More »SFIV Vewlix cabinet on eBay – how "real" is it?
Not satisfied with building your own arcade cabinet for SFIV and you want the real, “official” thing? Then this auction on eBay is for you. The seller apparently won this through Gamestop/Capcom’s sweepstakes by
Read More »Brent Sales bringing Tank! Tank! Tank! and PUTT: Championship Golf to Europe
Good news for our European readers, in case you were wondering when Namco would be bringing Tank! Tank! Tank! to Europe. Brent Sales has sent out a press release stating that they will be
Read More »Catching up: Arcade Heroes Podcast #7
The podcast is back and apologies in advance about the delay with that – for the past few weeks I have been in a transition phase moving my arcade from one location to another.
Read More »Holy cow: Sega also doing a giant Tetris game (updated)
From Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report. The top game is Sega’s new Shining Force Cross RPG game. Beneath that – well it speaks for itself. This is obviously not the same thing as
Read More »Another 10th anniversary to remember – the NAOMI
While I missed yesterday’s celebrations around the net for the 10th anniversary of Sega’s Dreamcast console, Kevin Williams sends us a reminder of another 10th Sega-related and Dreamcast-related anniversary – the Sega NAOMI. I
Read More »KOF goes all shmup-y with KOF Sky Stage
KOF fan purists – brace yourselves. Or you might want to skip this post entirely but then again the damage is already done if you even noticed this. For everyone else – talk about
Read More »Aurcade.com gets a revamp
(Thanks to Doc @ Galloping Ghost for the tip) One of the websites that you can use to help find an arcade near you (in the US only, currently), Aurcade.com recently revamped it’s website
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