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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 »
Another review double feature: Chase HQ2 & 1942
I’ve got another couple of reviews uploaded to the internet, this time Chase HQ2 by Taito and 1942 by Romstar/Capcom. I uploaded the CHQ2 video to Vimeo and 1942 to youtube for the time being and when I get a chance (i.e. more time as it takes a while to upload a 200MB file) »
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 »
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 »
Nanotech adds three more boards to it's MultiPin system
It looks like Nanotech wasn’t satisfied with adding just Gottlieb tables to their new video pinball game called MultiPin, they now have worked out a deal with Blindmankind pinball to add their tables to the system as well. I wasn’t really familiar with them so with some checking I see that they have the »
Next victim of robotic takeover – foosball
Again I kid with the robotic takeover but after we brought up the air hockey playing robot last week now we have news of a robotic foosball table that allows one human player to pit their skills against an electronic foe. Designed by a group of engineering students at the University of Adelaide in »
GlobalVR to bring DC Comic's Justice League to arcades
A little while back you might recall that we posted a press release from Signature Devices that referred to some sort of arcade game that would be featuring licensed characters from a DC comic franchise. We didn’t hear anything about it afterwards as apparently they jumped the gun way ahead of time and GlobalVR »
Nanotech has a distributor, so what's next?
We’ve had a few posts recently on a new company that is joining the coin-op scene and once again they have another press release to share with the world. After revealing the licensing of Gottlieb pinball tables for their new MultiPin system, Nanotech is announcing that they have partnered up with Too Fun Inc., »
Haunted Ms. Pac-Man machine returns to Craigslist
[Thanks to reader Adam for the tip!, image via random search on flickr] I’m not sure how many times this has shown up on a classifieds website before but once again the haunted Ms. Pac-Man arcade machine is up for grabs on Craigslist Boston. There is no witty commentary to go along with it, »
