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A fundraiser to help the American Classic Arcade Museum

A fundraiser to help the American Classic Arcade Museum

February 23, 2011, 1 Comment on A fundraiser to help the American Classic Arcade Museum

(Thanks to Jon Lynch for the tip!) We’ve had some unpleasant news about a popular arcade in Southern California closing it’s doors, Arcade Infinity which is closing this week (BTW- They asked me to mention that the games from AI are for sale, if you are interested in picking something up from them, check »

Chinatown Fair Arcade closing Wednesday? + Ground Kontrol goes 3.0 (UPDATE)

Chinatown Fair Arcade closing Wednesday? + Ground Kontrol goes 3.0 (UPDATE)

February 21, 2011, 4 Comments on Chinatown Fair Arcade closing Wednesday? + Ground Kontrol goes 3.0 (UPDATE)

(From inside the Chinatown Fair arcade, GameSetWatch) UPDATE: Both Joystiq and Kotaku have ran stories about this and found out that the closure isn’t completely true – there are some issues with the landlord that they are having and if those aren’t resolved then they will move. If they are resolved, then they will »

AOU 2011 Day 2: More videos!

February 19, 2011, 2 Comments on AOU 2011 Day 2: More videos!

Here’s more follow-up on the AOU 2011 expo and today we have more to watch in terms of videos!click below for videos of Let’s Go Island 3D, Chaos Code, Taito’s booth, NESiCAXLIVE, Aquapazza, Tekken Tag 2, Koihime Dream and more! »

AOU 2011 Day 1

AOU 2011 Day 1

February 18, 2011, 10 Comments on AOU 2011 Day 1

Here’s a new batch of images to come out of AOU 2011 that is now taking place in Japan. We’re not able to be there personally but there is quite a bit of coverage from the event from the many game news sites located in Japan. Hit the post break for the images to »

New arcade opening in Las Vegas this April – Insert Coin(s)

New arcade opening in Las Vegas this April – Insert Coin(s)

February 15, 2011, 4 Comments on New arcade opening in Las Vegas this April – Insert Coin(s)

(Thanks to Chris LaPorte for the info) If you live in or near Las Vegas then this April you have a new arcade to look forward to visiting. Known as Insert Coin(s), this statement from their website sums up their business the best: A one of a kind experience, INSERT COIN(S) will electrify all »

Sega unveils Let’s Go Island 3D as a part of AOU2011 line-up

Sega unveils Let’s Go Island 3D as a part of AOU2011 line-up

February 10, 2011, 1 Comment on Sega unveils Let’s Go Island 3D as a part of AOU2011 line-up

As expected Sega has unveiled more games which will be making an appearance at their AOU2011 show next week. Among those games includes a 2D fighter that runs on Ringwide hardware called Chaos Code; a new Mahjong game, Sega Network Mahjong MJ5; and most surprisingly, Let’s Go Island 3D.  The most significant aspect Sega »

Videos of Elevator Action Death Parade & Sonic All-Stars Racing

February 6, 2011, No Comments on Videos of Elevator Action Death Parade & Sonic All-Stars Racing

If you were looking for even more footage of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Arcade then thanks to BMI Gaming, we’ve got you covered. If you wanted to see more of Taito’s Elevator Action: Death Parade, then BMI has also posted a video of this in action, with around 9 min. of footage (they »

Rolling Stones Pinball in action

February 1, 2011, 1 Comment on Rolling Stones Pinball in action

BMI Gaming has posted a 4 minute video of Stern’s latest pin, The Rolling Stone to their Youtube channel, along with some comments on how the game plays. One comment made on the videos by BMI sums up how it plays pretty well: …based on Stern’s “less than compelling” designs of late, we were »

AOU 2011 special sites starting to pop up

AOU 2011 special sites starting to pop up

January 31, 2011, 1 Comment on AOU 2011 special sites starting to pop up

Every year, we start out with a few months of arcade shows to look forward to as companies give us a look at what games they have to offer at the beginning of the year. We’ve got shows like EAG in the UK every January, AOU in Japan every February and in March there »

EAG 2011 Pictures from The Stinger Report

EAG 2011 Pictures from The Stinger Report

January 27, 2011, 2 Comments on EAG 2011 Pictures from The Stinger Report

It’s become tradition for us to share with you pictures of a trade show event provided to us by The Stinger Report and with this week’s EAG 2011, we’re happy to continue with that trend. If you haven’t already, make sure you read our full report by Nick Thorpe (Heavy Electricity) where you can »

EAG 2011 – Full report

EAG 2011 – Full report

January 26, 2011, 6 Comments on EAG 2011 – Full report

The January trade show season is always exciting, isn’t it? New games, lots of people, general excitement. For a few days, a part of London is all about the amusement trade. This year, however, was particularly exciting for me. Not just because of the games I was looking forward to, but in part due »

EAG 2011 video

January 25, 2011, 7 Comments on EAG 2011 video

HeavyElectricity went to EAG and brought back some video! It’s a little too late to write up my usual lengthy show report, so here’s the rather less usual highlight video to tide you over. It’s a little over 7 minutes long and features much joyful arcade action (and also a fairly loud start, so »