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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 »
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 »
Hollywood Bowl Makes Striking Impression!
The main reason I picked up on this article by Clarion Gaming’s Laura Mountford is the quote; “It was clear that the arcade is central to the overall entertainment offering.” Now that’s definitely something I like to hear, and it got me thinking. Imagine a Hollywood Bowl, or any bowling alley for that matter, with no »
Taito teams up with LaForet Harajuku to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Space Invaders
[ITMedia] I’m not a fashion expert so when I first read about this news I had to look up what LaForet Harajuku was. According to this page: “ Since its phenomenally successful debut in 1978, Laforet Harajuku shopping center and museum has established itself as the preeminent source of new fashion and culture in »
Golden Tee LIVE 2009 goes on sale Aug. 4th, shipping in September
I’ve been hearing a lot of hints floating around that there are a lot of big announcements coming from arcade companies this fall (in particular at the AMOA show) and from what I can tell without getting into many details (as I can’t at the moment since I don’t actually know many of the »
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 »
SFIV & "The Battle of Destiny: Road to Evolution" Tournament in the UK
A big tournament, known as The Battle Of Destiny: Road to Evolution (the title almost sounds like something from an old rock album) recently took place in the UK, and The Stinger Report was there to scope out how things went. From The Stinger: The UK Capital played host to what must be the »
Incredible Technologies named One of Chicago's "101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work for"
Here’s some pretty good news for one arcade company to talk about, Incredible Technologies (makers of Golden Tee and Silver Strike Bowling) has been named by the National Association for Business Resources one of Chicago’s “101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For”. This is not an entity within the arcade industry so it’s »
PGA Tour Golf All-Access Pass unlocks more courses for offline machines
GlobalVR has announced an update for their EA Sports PGA Tour Golf arcade title called the All Access Pass. The Pass is for offline versions of the game which previously only had 11 courses to play on, whereas online enabled versions had 25 courses. The update lets the offline versions have the same courses »
Incredible Technologies & Betson form an alliance
It’s hard to keep track on distributor/manufacturer relations sometimes and if you visit distributor websites you sometimes find that they carry products from one company but not another. It’s obviously in the best interest for manufacturers to get their product distributed through as many avenues as possible and it’s in the interest of the »
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 »
Galaga Legions coming to XBLA so could there be an arcade version?
Back in March when I was at ASI I asked the guys at Namco about the possibility of bringing PacManCE or something like it to the arcade scene they said that they recently had been kicking the idea around but since then we haven’t heard anything about it. Today at the Microsoft e3 press »
