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Battle Fantasia Impressions from HDRL

Battle Fantasia Impressions from HDRL

Shaggy May 31, 2007 0

  Whoever it is that writes for the blog HDRL: Japanese Gaming for Gaijin has posted their impressions of the new Taito fighter known as Battle Fantasia. The RPG element to the game certainly sounds

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Spotlight: Unique Arcade games made in Taiwan by IGS

Spotlight: Unique Arcade games made in Taiwan by IGS

Shaggy May 31, 2007 0

IGS (International Games Systems) has been developing unique arcade video games since 1991 primarily for the Chinese game market which is understandably huge. They are in the news right now as they plan on

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Let’s Go Jungle Complete walkthrough

Let’s Go Jungle Complete walkthrough

Shaggy May 31, 2007 0

Youtube user ArcanaKick has posted four videos on youtube that show off the entire game of Sega Let’s Go Jungle. Here they are together for your enjoyment but if you’re concerned for any spoilers

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Play Mechanix on Game Head this Friday, June 1st

Play Mechanix on Game Head this Friday, June 1st

Twisted Supreme May 31, 2007 0

Play Mechanix will be featured on this week’s edition of Game Head on Spike TV! The show takes a look behind the scenes of game design and development. We’re excited to be part of

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Namco and Taito Sponsored Cars

Namco and Taito Sponsored Cars

Twisted Supreme May 31, 2007 0

Following up on the story about the arcade industry’s push to increase peoples awareness, here comes these photos of some of Namco and Taito’s activities. You could argue that these are mainly advertising consumer

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The Last Starfighter Arcade Final Version available (for PCs)

The Last Starfighter Arcade Final Version available (for PCs)

Shaggy May 31, 2007 0

It’s no secret that Atari had planned on creating an arcade game based on the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter. They were the ones who created the graphics for the arcade game people gawked

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Arcade Innovations

Arcade Innovations

Shaggy May 31, 2007 0

Kevin Williams has posted an interesting article over at SPoNG.com that discusses some of the innovations that the arcade industry brought to video games. From QWAKs! light-gun to Atari Footballs trackball, I, Robot’s 3D

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Shaggy's Weekly Game Review – Star Wars Arcade Trilogy by Sega

Shaggy's Weekly Game Review – Star Wars Arcade Trilogy by Sega

Shaggy May 30, 2007 0

This week I thought I’d review one arcade game that I spent a lot of time on a few years back: Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. Even today this game is still a lot of

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Ground Control Arcade Bar

Ground Control Arcade Bar

Twisted Supreme May 30, 2007 0

  Here’s another great arcade bar called Ground Control, will some please open one near me, thanks to Destructoid for this find….. For years, the traditional arcade has been dropping steadily off the map. Where

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Consumer Media's Arcade Coverage U-Turn!

Consumer Media's Arcade Coverage U-Turn!

Twisted Supreme May 30, 2007 0

  This was an interesting read, and some of the points raised have been bugging me for quite a while. Like when having a search on google for “arcade” all you get is Xbox

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Pop It For Gold

Pop It For Gold

Twisted Supreme May 30, 2007 0

Not really in my field of expertise, not that I have much of one anyway, but I can’t help but fall in love with this game. It sounds like great fun, a game that

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Twin Galaxies Official Video Game and Pinball Book of World Records available

Twin Galaxies Official Video Game and Pinball Book of World Records available

Shaggy May 29, 2007 0

In case you are unfamiliar with Twin Galaxies, they happen to be the standard setters for record high scores when it comes to not only console games but primarily coin-op video games. As such

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