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What Have We Been Playing This Week……

What Have We Been Playing This Week……

Twisted Supreme November 20, 2007 0

TOO. MANY. GOOD. GAMES! Shaggy EDIT: Added a couple of games I forgot -Rockin’ Bowl-a-rama (arcade) – Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift (arcade) -Big Buck Hunter Pro (arcade) -The Act (Arcade) -Warlords (Arcade) -Carcassone

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Square Enix 1st-half Net Profit up 32% thanks to arcades

Square Enix 1st-half Net Profit up 32% thanks to arcades

Shaggy November 20, 2007 0

Software giant Square-Enix has announced that it’s net profit for April-September jumped up 32.5% and it’s not thanks so much to console games but arcade titles. As quoted by an article found on @

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IKEA MAME Table

IKEA MAME Table

Twisted Supreme November 20, 2007 0

  Eat or play games? One of life’s many tough decisions. Now thanks to this creation, that problem is solved! Unfortunately this is a one off and not for sale. 🙁 [via Boing Boing]

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House of the Dead 2 & 3 Confirmed for Wii

House of the Dead 2 & 3 Confirmed for Wii

Twisted Supreme November 18, 2007 0

  Now this one we all saw coming a mile off. I can picture it now in the Sega boardroom… So we’ve done Ghost Squad for Wii, what other lightgun arcade games can we

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King of Kong Coming To DVD

King of Kong Coming To DVD

Twisted Supreme November 18, 2007 0

I have been away for a few days and this was a nice bit of news to hear on my return home (along with all the great news coming from IAAPA). According to GoNintendo,

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Article: "Evolving Arcade Culture"

Article: "Evolving Arcade Culture"

Shaggy November 17, 2007 1

[Via Argus Leader, Sioux Fall SD] Here is another news article that discusses the current state of arcades as well as the culture of arcades. While it misses the target on a few points(such

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The Act Part 2 – Physical movement sequence

The Act Part 2 – Physical movement sequence

Shaggy November 17, 2007 0

OK here is the next part of The Act that I promised to record for everyone, a part where you control the main character Edgar and his movement through the hospital hallways. It is

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UFO Stomper in action

UFO Stomper in action

Shaggy November 16, 2007 0

Here is a video from Trio-tech’s website showing their new UFO Stomper platform in action at IAAPA 2007. It certainly is attracting a lot of attention at the show. [Trio-Tech website] [Discuss on the

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Another new arcade fighter from Capcom – Fate: Unlimited Codes

Another new arcade fighter from Capcom – Fate: Unlimited Codes

Shaggy November 16, 2007 0

Just a day or two after hearing Capcom was going to increase it’s focus on it’s arcade locations comes news of a new fighter coming out of the the company known as Fate: Unlimited

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Exclusive – First Tekken 6 test location shots in US

Exclusive – First Tekken 6 test location shots in US

Shaggy November 16, 2007 0

[Via The Stinger Report] Namco has begun testing Tekken 6 in the US and we have an exclusive look at the test cabinets which are at the IAAPA 2007 event, thanks to our friends

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Arcade Heroes – 100,000 hits and rising

Arcade Heroes – 100,000 hits and rising

Shaggy November 16, 2007 0

We’ve just hit a milestone and it’s all thanks to you, the readers of Arcade Heroes. While 100,000 hits may not be impressive for certain websites or blogs that get that number of people

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UFO Stomper by Trio-Tech – foot controlled action on a new level

UFO Stomper by Trio-Tech – foot controlled action on a new level

Shaggy November 15, 2007 4

We have previously discussed “Interactive Floor” arcade games such as LightSpace but this new system from Trio-Tech takes the cake. While I have seen projected game systems before in malls, I have not seen

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