Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World
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Earthion EXA LABEL Blasts Its Way Into Arcades
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New Arcade Releases From East To West – UNIS, Ace, Superwing & More
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Indie Arcade Focus: Speglar
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Taking A Close Look At Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot On Test
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Initial D4 in the spotlight
Gizmodo has a video up of Sega’s Initial D4 Special which we have reported on a few times in the past. It looks like people are certainly interested in it as the page
Read More »Update on my arcade business progress
Well I figure it’s been a while since I wrote about my progress with getting my arcade started and now is as good a time as any. At the moment I am still in
Read More »Pac Gentleman impresses with arcade action from the 1880's
OK so it really isn’t from the 1880’s but this sculpted piece of art by an artist known as Doktor A makes one wonder if this is what arcade games would have been like
Read More »Tekken: The Movie – Poster
I should really pay attention more to upcoming movie releases because this one completely caught me unaware. As long as it’s as good as Mortal Kombat (sorry, but I liked it), and not as
Read More »Arcade Heroes Impressions on i-Go's Panzer Elite
I visited my local distributor again and they had a few new games in stock. One of those games included something that I saw on the reports for London Preview 08 and that was
Read More »Global VR Updates NASCAR to allow for linking up to 10 cabinets
[Via The Stinger Report] It’s not often you find a game that will link more than four cabinets together, much less 10. Too bad I wouldn’t be able to afford that many cabs for
Read More »Virtua Fighter Pachislot
This reminds me of the HOTD slot machine I saw at the ATEi this year. I don’t think I took a picture of it, but it was there, I swear. [via Kotaku] The granddaddy
Read More »Sea Wolf returns to arcades – as a redemption title
Probably not many people remember Sea Wolf – an arcade title by Midway from 1976 that put players in the position of a submarine launching torpedoes at ships through a periscope control. A more
Read More »First thoughts on The Act (my review for the week)
The reason why I am calling this my first thoughts and not my final review is because I am having a little issue with the sound – nothing comes through the on-board PC sound
Read More »Crazy: VF2 Simpsons Vs Family Guy
Some crazy people took the parts of the VF2 PC game and using a “Make Your Own Fighting Game” engine called M.U.G.E.N. threw in Homer and Peter Griffin! Also note the Sega mascots in the
Read More »"The Act" – In the News
As a taster for Shaggy’s up coming review here is a quick news story I found on “The Act” on youtube. Features a little gameplay, cabinet on test and some interviews with key Cecropia staff. Sadly they
Read More »The Act Has Arrived!
I received my conversion kit for The Act today and I can hardly wait to spend some real time with the game. I hope to play it enough that I can write a
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