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Silver Strike Bowling Championship results
One way to get players out to the arcade is to hold a tournament of sorts – get several people signed up, offer a cash prize, etc. While operators can only do this on a limited basis, some manufacturers are holding national tournaments with big prizes to get people out and play. A fine »
AMOA denounces direct sales
From: http://www.replaymag.com/instant.htm (COMMENT FROM WEB PAGE) AMOA DENOUNCES DIRECT SALES – (posted Friday, July 11, 2008 — 8:30PM) In a stinging editorial published in the AMOA’s weekly email newsletter Off-The-Top, the association decried reports of “direct sales solicitations to location customers” by manufacturers. “Since the beginning of time, factories have been compelled to sell »
Next up on the Big Buck Hunter tournies – RAM JAM
Big Buck Safari has been one of my best earning games at my arcade recently (although last week it was beat by (brace yourselves) Indiana Jones Pinball which was the best earning game for that period) and I can hardly wait for the online update that it should have later this year which should »
What is coming for The Stinger Report over the next year
Those of you who read the site regularly know that we get a lot of tips and news from our friends at The Stinger Report. They get a lot of fascinating and important news and I think that it has helped us provide better coverage on the arcade industry as we have progressed. The »
A look at BlazBlue from AnimeExpo
One of our forum members, PhilVer 0 had the opportunity to go to AnimeExpo in LA last weekend and check out the location test of the new arcade fighter BlazBlue by Arc System Works. They weren’t allowing pictures to be taken but he managed to get a couple taken without getting kicked out. The »
Sega Rally 3 screens & video
Over on the Sega Amusements website I came across these screens from Sega Rally 3, more of which can be found if you head over there yourself. Also there’s a video for download, which I also found on YouTube as well, which is below for your viewing pleasure. There’s been a few location videos popping up on »
Konami finally update the website
As someone who frequents a lot of website each day, looking for the latest bits of news, I found it increasingly frustrating that Konami let thier European website go without an update for what seems like a year now. That was until today when I thought I’d have a check just in case they had »
More info on House of The Dead EX
As expected a little more information on Sega’s latest entry into the House of the Dead series is out although you’ll have to bear with me as we have to rely upon a very crude translation via the internet translator. In what the translator calls a “Zombie husband” and a “Zombie Child” (who are »
Coin-Op TV looks at a new uWink opening in Hollywood
It’s always interesting to take a look at what the founder of the video arcade industry, Nolan Bushnell is up to these days and if you have followed his latest efforts in recent years then you probably know that he has been working on a new chain of restaurants called uWink. I believe that »
House of the Dead EX revealed at Sega's Summer Conference
(Click on the images for the full view) So House of the Dead fans have been wondering for a while now if there would be a HOTD5 and at the latest Sega event in Japan, that idea has been given some attention with the revelation of a new House of the Dead title – »
R-Tuned Ultimate Street Racing by Sega
(click on the image to enlarge it, via Aries Small Rooms) First there was Tokyo Drift, then Need For Speed Carbon and now Sega is throwing it’s hat into the street racing arena with another new racing game called R-Tuned Ultimate Street Racing. There is very little information on the game at the moment »
Fighter mania continues with BlazBlue
The notion that no one wants to play fighters in the arcade anymore is silly. Apparently Capcom and Namco thinks so when it comes to the US but I have noticed a very interesting trend in my two weeks of running the arcade – there are a lot of fighting fans out there who »
