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Konami Location Tests Reflec Beat in South Korea

September 1, 2010, No Comments on Konami Location Tests Reflec Beat in South Korea

Newsfeed 916 via Alternate headline: “Konami strikes back in DJ Max Technika’s hometown”. The location test is actually over at this moment after Konami was able to gather player input over the period of a few weeks. Fortunately we have some extensive videos of the game in action now, it’s like a chaotic version »

DDRX2 location testing in East Hanover, NJ; Southend,UK

August 25, 2010, 5 Comments on DDRX2 location testing in East Hanover, NJ; Southend,UK

I was starting to get a little anxious as it’s a much slower news cycle at the moment than usual but there is some welcome news coming our way via Bemanistyle.com with a report that Konami has begun their first location test of the new Dance Dance Revolution X2 arcade game in North America. »

Konami testing Space Agent in Japan, a new shooter that uses Augmented Reality

Konami testing Space Agent in Japan, a new shooter that uses Augmented Reality

August 20, 2010, No Comments on Konami testing Space Agent in Japan, a new shooter that uses Augmented Reality

The Am-Net Blog has pictures of the marketing materials for a new Konami light-gun game testing in Japan called Space Agent. The only info we have about it comes from the posted media, which shows a mostly enclosed cabinet,  e-Amusement features and mounted guns which add an element of “Augmented Reality” to the experience. »

Test your tablecloth pulling skills with The Tablecloth Hour

August 15, 2010, No Comments on Test your tablecloth pulling skills with The Tablecloth Hour

Last year Taito contributed a new game to the often quirky world of Japanese arcade games called Ultra Low Dining Table(scroll almost halfway down on the link for videos; it’s also pictured to the right in the photo above), where the object of the game was to pound on a small table controller until »

More Japanese location tests reports: Darius Burst and Chaos Code

August 11, 2010, 3 Comments on More Japanese location tests reports: Darius Burst and Chaos Code

(Thanks to ECM for the tip on Darius) When it comes to public location tests Japan rarely disappoints and we’ve got two to talk about today. First, popular game site Famitsu weighs in on the Darius Burst Another Chronicle location test with more pictures of how that went down. They get into more details »

Darius Burst Another Chronicle location test reports

August 7, 2010, 4 Comments on Darius Burst Another Chronicle location test reports

Taito began the first public test of the new Darius Burst Another Chronicle in Akihabara yesterday and already the test is considered a great success. Between 140-200 showed up early to get a chance to play the new game for 200 yen each. There are a couple of location test reports on the web, »

Super Street Fighter IV Arcade on location test

August 6, 2010, No Comments on Super Street Fighter IV Arcade on location test

Newsfeed 895 via Super Street Fighter IV Arcade is out testing and 4Gamer.net has pictures to prove it. The article mentions some fine tuning in the game with the health but beyond that there isn’t much else to report. Too bad they don’t try it out the Darius Burst cabinet since they insist on »

Links for the weekend: New test for Metal Gear, Arcade Propaganda Posters + more

July 31, 2010, No Comments on Links for the weekend: New test for Metal Gear, Arcade Propaganda Posters + more

I am needing to catch up on some newsfeeds from the Stinger and in the interest of time I will combine what I can into one post. Before that though AM.Net has some good links this morning, first with Famitsu’s pics from the most recent location test on Konami’s Metal Gear Arcade. They have »

World's Fastest Drummer Arcade @ WAMO

July 30, 2010, 1 Comment on World's Fastest Drummer Arcade @ WAMO

The World’s Fastest Drummer Arcade is on it’s way to seeing a full release as the company behind the game, McAfee Enterprises Inc. (not to be confused with McAfee, makers of anti-virus software) has obtained a cabinet manufacturer to build the needed cabinets. While no final design has been seen for the game at »

Fighterpalooza: Super Street Fighter IV loctest vids; Street Fighter X Tekken shuns arcades (for now)

July 25, 2010, No Comments on Fighterpalooza: Super Street Fighter IV loctest vids; Street Fighter X Tekken shuns arcades (for now)

Newsfeed 882 & 883 via Plenty of Street Fighter news has come along. First, videos showing Super Street Fighter IV Arcade are online (via Versuscity). Andriasang also has a pic showing some extra character slots on the arcade version indicating more characters to be revealed soon. In further Street Fighter related news, I am »

Videos from the Akai Katana (aka Red Sword) location test

July 25, 2010, No Comments on Videos from the Akai Katana (aka Red Sword) location test

(Thanks to ECM for the tip) Interested in seeing CAVE’s new shooter Akai Katana? Then here are some of the first videos of the game in action, as seen recently on location test. I’m used to seeing CAVE use vertical perspectives in their games so this is a little different (like DeathSmiles) but if »

One Super Street Fighter IV location test down, at least two more to go

July 23, 2010, No Comments on One Super Street Fighter IV location test down, at least two more to go

Newsfeed 879 via There really isn’t anything new to report on the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV after it’s most recent location test but at least some in Japan have had a chance to play it now. That and we know that the arcade version will be getting new characters but I’m »