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Editorial: 1 step to improve your arcade – Fix the games!
Have you ever walked into an arcade, looking for your favorite game that you always play and once you find it plop in some quarters/tokens to find that one of the buttons don’t work? Or The joystick doesn’t work when pushed in a certain direction? Or maybe the sound doesn’t work? Sometimes you can »
Only One Week To Go! Vote Now For Your Game Of The Year!
So seeing as we are coming up to our first birthday and as we creep closer and closer to have achieved 100,000 hits we thought what better way to celebrate than to hold a poll on your game of the year (released in the UK and/or North America). Granted it’s not the most original »
The Stinger Report #599 – IAAPA 07 coverage part I
The Stinger Report has released the first part of their IAAPA coverage and it is loaded with information pertaining to arcades and what the future holds for our industry. Certainly this is shaping up to be the best year we’ll see in amusement this decade. The report itself is quite long so I’ll work »
What Have We Been Playing This Week….
Shaggy has gone back to the Wii classic Wii Sports and I have been playing, among other things, Sonic and Mario at the Olympic, which some are dubbing Wii Sports 2. Shaggy -Warlords (Arcade) -Rock Band (Xbox 360) -Orange Box: Portal (Xbox 360) -Orange Box: Team Fortress 2 (Xbox 360) -BattleZone 2000 (Atari Lynx) »
Shaggy's Weekly Review – Rockin' Bowl-a-Rama by Namco
I had a chance to play a bowling arcade game this past week and I figured it would be nice to check it out. Since bowling games have had a surge in popularity as of late, it’s only appropriate to see what the arcade side of the genre has to offer. Unfortunately I cannot »
Fate: Unlimited Gods Website update
(Click to Enlarge) It certainly didn’t take long for the Fate: Unlimited Codes website to be updated(we reported about this new 3D fighter by Capcom a couple of days ago). Just the other day it was a simple teaser site, now they have a plethora of info (mostly in Japanese of course) up about »
What Have We Been Playing This Week……
TOO. MANY. GOOD. GAMES! Shaggy EDIT: Added a couple of games I forgot -Rockin’ Bowl-a-rama (arcade) – Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift (arcade) -Big Buck Hunter Pro (arcade) -The Act (Arcade) -Warlords (Arcade) -Carcassone (XBLA) -Pac-Man CE (XBLA) -Battalion Wars 2 (Nintendo Wii) Twisted Supreme -Sonic Rush Adventure (DS) -Tetris (DS) -Assassins Creed (360) »
House of the Dead 2 & 3 Confirmed for Wii
Now this one we all saw coming a mile off. I can picture it now in the Sega boardroom… So we’ve done Ghost Squad for Wii, what other lightgun arcade games can we port over to the Wii….. hmmmmmmmm? A bit of a no brainer really. Personally I’m really looking forward to this »
UFO Stomper by Trio-Tech – foot controlled action on a new level
We have previously discussed “Interactive Floor” arcade games such as LightSpace but this new system from Trio-Tech takes the cake. While I have seen projected game systems before in malls, I have not seen something like this available just for the coin-op sector. Called UFO Stomper, this interactive foot controlled game is sure to »
TAB Austria's Virtual Pinball
First there was Ultrapin by GlobalVR and now a company called TAB Austria has created their own electronic pinball game called “Virtual Pinball” and at least one distributor in the US has picked it up, BMI Gaming. It’s specs include a 42″ plasma screen (admittedly I’d like to see how these hold up under »
What Have We Been Playing This Week….
This week Shaggy has been hitting the Atari 800XL hard just like I’ve been hitting the 360. I will happily admit my Achievement addiction is back in full swing mainly due to the abundance of great games coming out at the moment. Roll on Assasins Creed, Mass Effect, Rockband and Mario Galaxy! Shaggy »
Raw Thrills Signs Specular Interactive for New Arcade Game
SKOKIE, IL – November 9, 2007 – Raw Thrills, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of coin-operated arcade videogames, announced an agreement with premier development studio Specular Interactive, Inc. to create a premium coin-operated videogame for arcade. “Like Raw Thrills, Specular Interactive, led by arcade game design legend Steve Ranck, has a proven team »
