April Trade Shows: GTI Southeast Asia (Malaysia); ARE (UK); TAGE Expo (Taiwan)
In the recent past, April hasn’t always been home to many (if any) amusement trade »
SNK Announces The King Of Fighters ’98 Is Returning To Arcades Via exA-Arcadia
SNK has been busy as of late, announcing a new Metal Slug and the AES+ »
Sega Tests New Sonic The Hedgehog Coin Pusher “Sonic Balloon Carnival” With Round1USA
This year marks the 35th birthday of Sonic the Hedgehog, with Sega just beginning to »
Incredible Technologies Aims For A 300 With Silver Strike: League Night
Sixteen years since they released Silver Strike Live, Incredible Technologies has followed up with their »
Newsbytes: Stranger Things Arcade Hits Dave & Buster’s, StepManiaX In Japan, Wild Gunman Restored & More
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Another arcade opens up near me
This was a little surprising to me, but welcome as I find news that a new arcade is opening up in a city not too far from where I live. This makes about 9
Read More »Coin-Op TV DVD Collection for 3rd year Anniversary
It’s been a little while since I saw something new from Coin-Op TV to the point where I nearly forgot about them, but that is most likely because I didn’t look into it
Read More »Pinball machines finally legal in Los Altos Hills, CA
If you are unfamiliar with pinball history, the headline to this post might not make a lot of sense. Why on earth would anyone criminalize innocent ol’ pinball? Well back in the 50’s,
Read More »Update: Capcom Confirms Street Fighter 4
Another Update: Looks like Street Fighter 4 was the big news after-all. The only catch? No news on whether the arcade will see any love from Capcom or if all we can look forward
Read More »Become Pac-Man
For anyone out there who dreamt of jumping through the TV screen and being in a video game, now you have your chance… well sort of. On the 17-21 October 2007 the International Design Expo 2007
Read More »Otomedius launched in Japan
I almost missed this earlier today. Konami’s latest well-endowed anime girl shooter is now available in Japan, bringing with it side-scrolling shmup action – along with a touch screen. The chances of seeing
Read More »What Have We Been Playing This Week….
Shaggy -Warlords (Arcade) -Halo 3 (360) -Pac-Man CE (360) -Quake 1 (PC) -Jill of the Jungle (PC) and The Act soon! Twisted Supreme -Animal Crossing (DS) -Sonic Rush Adventure (DS) -Tetris (DS) -Super Tennis
Read More »LightSpace Features New Pricing, More Games
I can’t believe that I overlooked this as I have been quite interested in the idea of LightSpace in the arcade, I have even talked with the company about purchasing one. There is a
Read More »The Act Conversion Kit purchased!
Recently we mentioned that Cecropia, makers of the coin-op title called The Act had cancelled that game for the arcade market. I was pleased to find out however that a number of kits were
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