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Billy Mitchell opens the King of Kong Arcade
The quest for the high score to the Donkey Kong arcade machine was made famous by the documentary, The King of Kong, A Fistful of Quarters. Thanks to that film, the rivalry between Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe is now something of legend and also thanks to that film, there is now an arcade »
Adrenaline Amusement’s TouchFX now available
One of the nice surprises about IAAPA this past November was the appearance of a new product by Adrenaline Amusements, a company based out of Toronto, Canada. It was called TouchFX and it offered something different than most everything else on the show floor with a multi-touch 46″ screen along with the promise of »
The return of VR?
Newsfeed 990 via Technology has a funny way of working at times. Occasionally, ideas were too far ahead of their time or the technology didn’t live up to the ambition of the idea behind it all. In many instances, technology which is grabbing the spotlight once again was tried out at one point in »
Pac-Man Battle Royale now shipping
When Namco was revealing the different ways in which they celebrated Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary last year, no one product they revealed was more surprising than Pac-Man Battle Royale. We first got a chance to play the game at Amusement Expo 2010 in Las Vegas in March, and a few months later others in the »
REVIEW: Pac-Man Battle Royale by Namco
PAC-MAN BATTLE ROYALE DEVELOPER: Bandai Namco (Visit Namco America’s website) PUBLISHER: Bandai Namco RELEASE: January 2011 TYPE: Competitive maze PLAYERS: 1-4, simultaneous HARDWARE: “System 157”, custom board with specs unknown (also used in Namco’s Pac-Man’s Arcade Party) ARCADE EXCLUSIVE?: Yes RATING: Green Label – Suitable for All Ages REGION AVAILABILITY: Worldwide SYNOPSIS: From Namco »
REVIEW: Friction by Friction Game Studios
FRICTION Developer: Friction Game Studios Publisher: Coast-to-Coast Entertainment Release: April 2011 (kit) ; Summer 2011 (dedicated, Asia only) Type: Light-gun shooter Players: 1-2, simultaneous Hardware: PC with a custom I/O board ARCADE EXCLUSIVE?: Yes Rating: Optional – Yellow Label (Animated Violence) or Red Label (Life Like Violence) depending on setting by operator Synopsis: Fend »
Crazy Speed Arcade goes Super
At IAAPA 2010 I had a chance to check out Crazy Speed Arcade for the first time at the UNIS booth. They had four units setup there, two in English and two in Spanish. It appears that the company who developed the CSA software released an enhanced version of the game earlier last year »
How the year went at my own arcade
As long time readers of this site are aware, I own and operate my own arcade in Utah. I opened up back in June 2008 and it’s been a wild ride but I have managed to stay afloat despite the continually bad economic conditions. In lieu of recent negative news regarding the closure of »
More details on Namco’s Maximum Heat
Newsfeed 967 via We’ve already had some hands-on time with Namco’s latest racer, Dead Heat (see IAAPA coverage or search for Dead Heat here in case you missed it) but we haven’t seen much on the Japanese version of the game until now. Called Maximum Heat, the game itself is essentially the same as »
More content announced for Taito’s NESICAxLIVE arcade; Haunted Museum 2 announced
Since Taito announced their new NESiCAxLIVE system for arcades, we’ve been eagerly waiting to see how it will work out. The release date for the system hasn’t arrived just yet (it’s only a few weeks away) but there are some new content announcements for the platform worth talking about. If these continue and the »
