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The home-made Dreamcast Arcade machine
Of consoles in recent memory, the Sega Dreamcast perhaps has the most arcade-to-console ports of any console in the past decade. In part this comes from the fact that Sega used Dreamcast based hardware
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While I never have been anywhere close to Myrtle Beach, this small bit of news discussing how the city council there has eased up on zoning rules so that an amusement park can go
Read More »Move over Wii Sports – here comes Mocap Sports
While it might seem that Konami is a little late to the motion controller party, you also might recall that Konami pioneered the motion controller prior to the release of the Nintendo Wii (which has
Read More »More details on Shining Force Cross revealed
Game Watch has revealed some more juicy details on Sega’s new arcade RPG Shining Force Cross and with it my interest in the game is up but at the same time it looks like
Read More »Welcome to the wonderful world of arcade coin buckets
If you have worked at an arcade before or if you own a few cabinets then you have probably come across some interesting coin buckets before. Some are rather irritating as they can be
Read More »Check out the Game Boom
Some arcade cabinets are sturdier than others and I think that this Game Boom takes the cake. Of course it’s not really a game cabinet although I’m sure that with a little extra work
Read More »One place getting rid of an arcade machine does not mean that all games are seeing hard times
When it comes to the economy, you can’t base the performance of one game to demonstrate how it must be for all arcade games. Especially if said game is two years old and has
Read More »Terminator Salvation pinball to compliment TS Arcade?
In the very latest Stinger Report e-newsletter (which came to my e-mail after I had finished posting yesterday), we have word that Stern will create a pinball based upon Terminator Salvation later this year.
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Ever since I discovered vector games I have been a bit of a vector-junkie. I have an Asteroids Deluxe and would love to own more vectors but it seems that I never have the
Read More »A couple of new flyers: DDRX, DJ Max Technika and Putt Championship Edition
I dropped by my local distributor yesterday and as I was browsing their collection of flyers, I noticed that they had some new ones in stock. I grabbed a few and decided to scan
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