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Spotlight: Unique Arcade games made in Taiwan by IGS
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
Read More »Let’s Go Jungle Complete walkthrough
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
Read More »Play Mechanix on Game Head this Friday, June 1st
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
Read More »Namco and Taito Sponsored Cars
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
Read More »The Last Starfighter Arcade Final Version available (for PCs)
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
Read More »Arcade Innovations
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
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Game Review – Star Wars Arcade Trilogy by Sega
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
Read More »Consumer Media's Arcade Coverage U-Turn!
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
Read More »Pop It For Gold
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
Read More »Twin Galaxies Official Video Game and Pinball Book of World Records available
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
Read More »Churches with arcades, what will they think of next?
I’m all for there being more arcades out there so more people can experience how great of an experience it is, but I am at a loss as to how to go about this
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