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New Features To The Site
I’ll keep this post short and sweet, but just thought I’d let you know of a couple of new features to the site. RSS Feed – (About time too) we can keep you up to date with the latest arcade news without you ever having to visit the site again! Location Reviews – Currently this includes »
Hellcade – A Collection of Horrid Arcade Conversions
One bad thing you occasionally run into in the world of arcade gaming are conversions – when someone takes one game cabinet and modifies it so it can play a different game. This usually happens where operators aren’t making much money off of the old game so they convert into something else in the »
What We Are Playing This Week……
I just beat my Pac-Man CE highscore which is now 281,000. Anyone got higher than that? Shaggy -Metroid 3 (Wii) -Ms. Pac-Man (arcade) -Gone Fishin’ (arcade) -Simpson’s Party Pinball -Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift (arcade) Twisted Supreme -Bioshock (360) -Virtua Tennis 3 (360) -Pac-Man CE (360) -Geometry Wars (360) [Discuss on the Forum »
Make A Preview Date – Big Response To Gaming Act!
Not long to go now until we get to see some of the industries latest offerings. [via Coin-Op News] Once again, there has been record-breaking pre-registration take-up from all over the world for this year’s London Preview show on 10/11 October. Italian visitors lead the board, closely followed by Germany, Ireland, Spain and »
Sega News Follow-Up
[via Inter Play] “Video games on show at the distributor day included Primeval Hunt, a two-player dinosaur hunt and shooting game, Shoot This Win This, which will be showcased at UK show Preview, Let’s Go Jungle Special, an adaptation of the original game, and Race TV, which will launch at ATEI 2008.” I am »
Sega News
This is officially the best day so far for the Arcade Heroes. Justin Burke, the Marketing and Promotions Manager for Sega Amusements Europe got in contact with me today to tell me about thier Distributors Day which they recently held and also to tell me of a few new Sega products to look out for »
What Are We Playing This Week……
As you can see our games playing is dedicated to one game only each. Bioshock is currently averaging 95% in reviews, so it goes without saying this is a hell of a game and deserves all my attention. As for Metroid…. well it’s Metroid for Christ’s sake! Shaggy -Metroid 3: Corruption (Wii) Twisted »
What Are We Playing This Week……
Shaggy -Liberator (Arcade) -Major Havoc (Arcade) -Resident Evil 4 (Wii) Twisted Supreme -Virtua Tennis 3 (360 & Arcade) -Guitar Hero 2 (PS2) -Puzzle League (DS) Nothing new, I’m just waiting for my Bioshock to arrive and for Halo 3 to come out! [Discuss on the Forum »
Mid-Atlantic Coin Op Show 2007
If anything is an indication of the popularity of arcades being on an upswing, it should be the amount of arcade shows that are occurring this year. There was the Funspot tournament, California Extreme, the Classic Gaming Expo and a few others. Now I stumbled across another event that is going to take place »
This week The Stinger Report takes a look at how the smoking ban in the UK is affecting the industry…… “Chaos and destruction were predicted for the British brewery and hospitality industry with the UK’s adoption of a Smoking Ban in public spaces. If this grim prediction were accurate, its impact should have been felt by »
Now Hiring…
For any of you arcade heads out there that want to get into the industry, and live in the Glen Ellyn IL area, then why not head over to Play Mechanix and check out the jobs section. Play Mechanix is seeking to fill the following positions: Online Arcade Game System Manager Linux System Administrator »
State of Amusement Coverage – Arcade Heroes Exclusive Commentary
Well the question has been posed on a number of forums and emails following the Play Value “The Death of Arcades” shambolic video, “Why do consumer game journalists hate arcade so much?” I have had to write a number of rebuttals to inaccurate or plain wrong features about the amusement industry and have noticed »
