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Sega ATEi 2008 Impressions
(More pictures are after the break) Let’s start with the big guns, first up is Sega. The first thing that struck me was the variety of games on offer especially after the recent news that Sega had signed a distribution deal with Trio-Tech. This added some additional games to the blue hedgehog’s stand. Jett Rider and Mad »
Konami ATEi 2008 Videos: Wacky Races, Guitar Freaks V4 & Drummania V4
[Have now added Guitar Freaks & Drummania V4 videos submitted by You Tube user “bigaloo”] Guitar Freaks V4 Drummania V4 Wacky Races Now this one confused me. The game is made by Gamewax and Banpresto (Banpresto is owned by Namco, well that’s what I thought ?). However Wacky Races was on the Konami stand »
Global VR's ATEi 2008 Videos: Blazing Angels, Nascar & Americas Army
So after a hectic day at the ATEi yesterday I am now faced with the daunting task of sorting through 5gb worth of photos and videos. I decided the best thing to put up first would be the videos, because I figure that’s what all you guys want to see right? Once all the videos »
Sega Europe Sign Distribution Deal With TrioTech Amusement
I have been really looking forward to playing the UFO Stomper and seeing how it works. So I guess I’ll be heading towards Sega’s stand at ATEi to do so (as if I wasn’t heading that way anyway!). [via Highway Games] (again) Sega Amusements Europe have signed an exclusive deal with TrioTech Amusement for the exclusive distributor »
GlobalVR releases America's Army as a JAMMA kit
GlobalVR has released a conversion kit for America’s Army that will work in any JAMMA cabinet in response to operator and distributor requests. According to them, more conversion kits are needed to help rejuvenate the coin-op market. I think that is only part of the process of rejuvenating as lower prices all around and »
Another industry vet passes away – Steve Kaufman
This is the second death in the coin-op industry that I’m sad to report in the past couple of weeks. Steve Kaufman passed away last night after a two-year battle with cancer. He started out as an operator and worked at many different coin-op businesses including “Runyon Distributing, Rowe, Games of Nevada, Williams Pinball, »
GameWorks Announces Half Price Holidays
If you live anywhere near a GameWorks entertainment facility then this is good news for you. Gameworks has issued a press release detailing their half-off special for the holidays, where players can go and enjoy the games and simulators that Gameworks offers for half-off the normal price Monday-Friday. They also are offering a deal »
Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week: T-MEK vs. Tokyo Wars
Hello all and welcome to the Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week! This is a new idea I just had and I think it would be fun to pit two arcade games against each other that share some similarities and see how they do against your votes! For the first week we have T-MEK »
Black Spiderman pinball machine released
Stern Pinball issued a press release yesterday stating that the Black Spiderman pinball machine (that we first reported about in October) is now available in limited quantities. When they say limited, they really mean it – only 500 of these are being made. It’s the same game as other Spiderman pins – just with »
What Have We Been Playing This Week……
Sara -Spectrobes (DS) -Puzzle Quest (DS) -Lifesigns (DS) Shaggy -Tetris (Arcade) -King of Fighters 98 (Arcade) -Adventure 2 (Atari 5200) -The Orange Box: Half-Life 2 (Xbox 360) -Asteroids & Deluxe (XBLA) Twisted Supreme -Call of Duty 4 (360) -Halo 3 (360) -Virtua Tennis 3 (360 & Arcade) -Sega Rally (360) -And soon to be »
Incredible Technologies hires more employees, acquires State Street Games
[Via CoinOPToday.com] Golden Tee developer IT (Incredible Technologies) has just hired on 7 new employees for it’s development staff and they also acquired a game developer known as State Street Games (renamed to IT West). So why does this matter to you? More games from IT, that’s why. Here are a couple of quote »
The largest MMOG makes it's way to arcades with Audition
When I heard the term ‘largest MMOG on the internet’ I first thought ‘World of Warcraft’ but I also noticed that it didn’t say MMORPG. So no, World of Warcraft is NOT coming to arcades but a game that boasts more than 50 million registered players (the 50 million is from China alone) is »
