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Enjoy 30 Minutes of AOU/AM Show Footage from 1991 & ’92
These days we all expect to see footage of arcade games from trade shows or venues since cameras are found everywhere. But that wasn’t the case from the earlier days of arcade gaming when footage would have only been gathered by a news organization and then broadcast once, perhaps. Fortunately thanks to interest in »
Newsbytes: From Kung Fury To Color Metallica and Skycurser
Happy May everyone. Here’s hoping it will bring us some more awesome arcade news – for April the most popular post was definitely the news on the Kung Fu Master 2 discovery. For what I have been able to gather today: Kung Fury Cabinet – Speaking of Kung Fu Master is this concept Kung Fury »
Kung Fu Master 2 Arcade Prototype Discovered
I recently ran a poll asking which genres you would like to see return to the arcade. While it wasn’t voted on by thousands (or even hundreds) the #1 genre you the readers would like to see comeback is the Beat ‘Em Up/Brawler. If you are into those kind of games then the arcade »
Crossbeats REV Arcade Coming To The US?
Former Dance Dance Revolution designer Naoki Maeda celebrated his birthday yesterday and took the opportunity to thank his fans on Facebook while sharing this nugget about his latest arcade project for Capcom, Crossbeats. REV (which we have discussed on AH previously): Today is my birthday. Also support thank you this year! !! By the »
Missing In Action: Maze Games
This week has been super slow for arcade news so this has given me some time to work on an article I’ve had floating in the queue for a while now. A few years ago I wrote some articles entitled “Missing In Action”, which focused on game genre that used to be popular in »
Pinball Innovations: FlipPaper; 8-player Pinball and King Pin Video Pinball
Here’s a quick update on a few items from the wonderful world of pinball that I have come across today: UPDATE: Added info on VPCabs below 8-player Pinball game, Gamelan Wizard – The country of Indonesia is not a place you might think of when it comes to pinball and likewise the name Lucas Abela »
Newsbits: MGC 2015; WrestleMania and Full Throttle Pin vids; Genre Poll
It has been a busy, busy week for me, I hope it has been great for you readers out there. Not really arcade related but I got a chance to see that Atari: Game Over documentary that popped up on Netflix. My review is… mixed, leaning only just on the positive side. Midwest Gaming »
Article: What Really Happened To Arcades
Thanks to ‘Venumspyders’ for the tip. I was just going to briefly mention this in addition to something else but then I started writing and it became its own thing (cue, “It’s aliiiiive!” here). Here is a blog article posted to Gamasutra by Eric Yockey entitled What Really Happened To Arcades? Eric’s work has »
No Fooling: Jurassic Park Arcade Unboxing
A month ago we received word that Raw Thrills’ latest arcade game Jurassic Park Arcade was beginning to ship out to distributors so that arcade venues could begin carrying the game. That said, how many shipped out and where was unknown and I only have been able to verify a couple of distributors getting »
Amusement Expo 2015 Preview
It is Vegas week, thanks to the start of Amusement Expo 2015 in Las Vegas, NV starting Wednesday. Since I started my arcade in 2008 I have attended this event annually, with one exception. It is a much smaller event than IAAPA but there is usually at least one new product we weren’t expecting »
Newsbag: Videmption, Pinball, New Locations and More
In North America, our winter nightmare has come to a close with Spring finally here. For the arcade business, in my particular situation, that has seen the typical slowdown that occurs when people can go out and do activities they were not able to do for the past several months. For news, I suddenly »
Big Buck HD Wild Unveiled
UPDATE: Fixed the official trailer link at the bottom of the post During the Big Buck HD 2014 World Championship online stream, they showed off a promotion for an update that would be made available to online arcade units in 2015. Since December, I have had the opportunity to participate in the location tests »
