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Hell’s Kitchen’s Pinball Intro
Each season of the TV reality competition show Hell’s Kitchen has a different opening sequence. With the season that just started yesterday they actually have a pretty nice nod to pinball on there as Chef Gordon Ramsey enjoys a game of Hell’s Kitchen Pinball as the ball goes around to bash the different contestants »
The Funland @ the Trocadero closes its doors, here’s why
The Trocadero is a well-known retail business center in London and one highlight of the location would certainly be the Funland facility there, home to many great arcade games as well as serving as a prime spot for many location tests of various upcoming coin-op game products. It’s one of the few locations we »
Videos for TRON LE Pinball; Konami’s Steel Chronicle
Here are two arcade-related videos to share with you today, first off the highly anticipated TRON Legacy Limited Edition Pinball in action. Since hearing about the modifications like the light-tubes, we’ve been waiting to see how it would turn out. They also made the Recognizer toy move around so it’s more interesting. I wonder »
Namco’s Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 coming in December to Japan
Newsfeed 1075 via UPDATE: For the latest on the international reach on this game, check out our post here. The next installment of Namco’s hardcore driving series, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune has a release date, for Japan at least. Expect to see the game showing up in certain venues this coming December 2011/January 2012. »
Retro Pinball/Gottlieb’s King of Diamonds Pinball shipping at the end of July
Video arcade news has been slow this month but pinball sure has been busy. This product has been quite a while in the making – we first reported that Retro Pinball LLC was working on the King of Diamonds remake back in September of 2007; I got a chance to play the game at »
Sega News: Bowlplex signs deal with Sega AM Europe; Operation Ghost seen
Newsfeed 1071 via Two bits of Sega goodness for you today. Let’s start with one of their upcoming games which if you live outside of Japan, there is a very good chance you’ll come across it before too long, depending upon when Sega decides to release it. The last time we posted about the »
Arcades from Asian Attractions Expo 2011
Newsfeed 1066 via Last week the IAAPA organization held their most recent event, the Asian Attractions Expo 2011 in Singapore. IAAPA Expos are an opportunity for pretty much any out-of-home entertainment company to showcase their latest ideas they have or will have for sale for venues to get their hands on (provided they have »
Sega Japan holds its annual private arcade show
Newsfeed 1060 via In Japan, Sega has been holding a “private” show today and we have a small idea of what is coming out of there but it isn’t much to go over so far. AM-Net is reporting that WCCF IC 2010-2011 (latest in Sega’s line of soccer/football games) and a new UFO »
With economies under stress, are consumers spending on entertainment?
Newsfeed 1059 via It feels like forever now that economies around the world are in a state of recession/depression, with stagnant growth and worried consumers all around. It’s not the case in every country but for many it seems to have become the unfortunate norm. This makes it a tougher environment for business to »
TRON Legacy Pinball Game Features Video
Stern Pinball has released a video demonstrating all of the features to be found in their latest title, TRON Legacy Pinball. As we can see, the video game scoop shot is an important target that is the finishing touch on many of the features. Hopefully they make a similar video for the Limited Edition »
Monday Variety Post: Reflect Beat goes Lime; Retro mini-cabs, New Arcade Book
“It’s all of your favorite hits with more variety”, variety being the radio code word for “you are going to hate most of the schlock we play with a few decent songs you actually like filling in the gaps”. But that’s for music on the radio which is not our specialty. Here’s what’s going »
Missing In Action: Run ‘N Gun Games
Given the recent slow news cycle, it’s given me some time to sit down and continue upon my editorial series I call “Missing In Action”. I take a look at a particular genre of games that used to have a strong presence in arcades but in recent times have gone to the wayside for »
