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Big Buck Hunter Pro Online Tourney News

August 9, 2008, 2 Comments on Big Buck Hunter Pro Online Tourney News

Here is some brief news about the Big Buck Hunter tournaments currently going on. The Regional Qualifiers began yesterday and as a reminder are going until Sep. 7th. To enter one simply needs to make an account on a BBHPro Online machine and play. They also have announced the winners for the RamJam competition, »

Silver Strike Bowling Winners for May & June

August 9, 2008, No Comments on Silver Strike Bowling Winners for May & June

There have been a lot of official competitions being run by arcade developers lately and with those, winners to gather the prizes. First off is Silver Strike Bowling, which continues to hold competitions with monthly prize giveaways. According to IT, it shouldn’t be too hard to find an SSB09 in the US as there »

Batman Dark Knight Review

August 7, 2008, No Comments on Batman Dark Knight Review

This insanely indepth review of Batman Dark Knight is absolutely worth checking out. As well as detailing every feature of the game, there’s also some great pictures, although I think we posted these a while back. One of the cool things about Batman is that it uses a variety of actual action figures on the »

New Raw Thrills' game, NickToons Nitro Now Available

August 6, 2008, No Comments on New Raw Thrills' game, NickToons Nitro Now Available

Raw Thrills’, Betson & Chicago Gaming have just announced the release of their latest racing game, NickToons Nitro, which is a game we mentioned some time ago when I got my hands on an early flier. Since then, they have changed the cabinet design (and the flyer – I saw an ad for this »

Hey look, another new book on arcades!

August 4, 2008, No Comments on Hey look, another new book on arcades!

Just the other day I was talking about how there aren’t hordes of books about arcades written these days so naturally I have to come across some news about another book where arcades are the primary subject. This is making me want to write my own book about arcades but I’m not sure what »

Samurai Spirits Sen and KOF98 Ultimate Match now available

August 4, 2008, No Comments on Samurai Spirits Sen and KOF98 Ultimate Match now available

Fighter fans can now rejoice – two new fighters are now available for purchase, through at least two importing companies that I know of (and probably more), Legend Trading Company (update: I just noticed that the link isn’t working although this is the one I got in the e-mail, maybe the site is down »

Modern Marvels episode focuses on coin-op games including pinball

August 4, 2008, 1 Comment on Modern Marvels episode focuses on coin-op games including pinball

I remember reporting about this some time ago but admittedly I forgot about it afterwards – fortunately my dad told me that he recorded it on TiVO as he came but I haven’t had a chance to go over to his place and check it out. Since I have not seen the episode yet »

More DDRX details

August 4, 2008, No Comments on More DDRX details

BemaniStyle.com has some extra details on Konami’s latest entry in the DDR series, DDRX. Some features the game will include are an eAmusement card reader it also has USB ports and a dial not unlike what you find on an iPod. The combo system works similar to DDR ITG2 and of course the game »

The Xbox Arcade Machine revealed

August 4, 2008, 6 Comments on The Xbox Arcade Machine revealed

We have heard of the latest attempt at an Xbox Arcade machine but until now, no one had seen it. Thanks to The Stinger Report, we have a first look at the “T2” arcade machine, which houses an Xbox 360 inside, along with two connected controllers and a coin mech. As you can see, »

Pinball in your area

July 29, 2008, 4 Comments on Pinball in your area

Thanks to Stern we still have a fairly decent flow of new tables being designed and manufactured. Whilst checking through my usual websites, which include other blogs, distributors and manufacturers I spotted that BHM Vending had given Sterns latest pinball tables top spot on the website. It’s nice to see this kind of thing »

Silver Strike Bowling Jeep Sweepstakes video

July 29, 2008, No Comments on Silver Strike Bowling Jeep Sweepstakes video

A while back I remember that we posted about a contest involving the arcade title Silver strike Bowling 2009 where they were giving away a jeep as the grand prize but I missed out on the details of how that turned out. Fortunately a video was recently posted to youtube that covers how that »

The Big Buck Hunter Pro 2008 World Championship Tournament (Updated)

July 28, 2008, 1 Comment on The Big Buck Hunter Pro 2008 World Championship Tournament (Updated)

Another tournament is on the way with Big Buck Hunter, which has been made easier to do with their online version of the game (I’m still looking forward to the online upgrade to BBS). The next tournament is called the Big Buck Hunter Pro 2008 World Championship Tournament. Starting on August 8th and ending »