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It's fun to ignore facts (or how not to mention SFIV arcade in the US if you write for a game mag)
To readers of this site, it’s no news that Capcom is looking to bring Street Fighter IV to the US. But this established fact seems to evade the mainstream gaming media, in particular GameInformer.
Read More »Hundreds attend the public opening of ASI
One new aspect of this year’s ASI convention was that they opened the show up on the last day of the event to the public. While I wasn’t there on the Saturday when this
Read More »Where did we use to play arcade games?
One of our forum members RJAY63 started an interesting new topic the other day; Where did we use to play arcade games. Now I’m really going to have think hard to remember all the places I’ve
Read More »What have we been playing…. or not in my case
As you can see Shaggy’s been a busy playing all sorts of great games at ASI, unfortunately I have had very little time to play games or do any posts for the website for
Read More »Reminder – Rochester Game Room Show this weekend
This is just a friendly reminder that the Rochester, NY Game Room Show will be happening this weekend. I have been busy getting ready for the show! I will be there and will have
Read More »Update on Sega Rally Arcade – not cancelled
(Click on the images to enlarge) Despite the closure of the Sega studio in charge of creating racing titles for consoles, this title is still on track and is going through testing. To prove
Read More »Go Go Golf from Sega – junk the Wiimote, play with a real club!
I remember not too long ago when Bill Gates was asked about the motion-sensing controls of the Wii he mentioned that he saw the day when you could do something like pick up a
Read More »Konami's HorseRiders – an interesting twist on the card-based video game
Of the games I had been hoping to catch at ASI this year was Sanguozhi War 3 by Sega. It had been tested in Chicago but had since disappeared on the US scene. The
Read More »Sega Rally Arcade cancelled already? UPDATE: No it is not
Just a little over a month ago we had received a tip that Sega was testing a new racer in a UK arcade that happened to be Sega Rally, a racer that appeared on
Read More »Incredible Technologies gearing up for their largest coin-op sweepstakes ever
One aspect about coin-op game creator Incredible Technologies that I have always liked are the sweepstakes that they run with their various games, from Golden Tee to Silver Strike Bowling and even to Bags.
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