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Pixelbox – Fantastic Micro MAME Cabinet by Vance Fry
This settles it, I am going to do the conversion on the Space Invaders Mini Cabinet. Vance Fry has done some amazing work building a micro sized cabinet from scratch using Sanwa arcade controls and a tiny LCD screen. The shell has been painstakingly assembled from acrylic with a great mirror finish…I want »
Raw Thrills’ Drift Released In Europe By Brent Sales/Namco
For our European readers, this may be of interest as Raw Thrills releases its answer to EA’s Need For Speed: “The hotly anticipated sequel to Raw Thrills’ AAA video driver, The Fast and the Furious, F&F Drift has been launched in Europe by exclusive distributors Brent Sales / Namco Europe. Linkable up to eight »
Paradise Lost Officially Released
“GLOBAL VR® today announced that it is beginning to ship production units of the highly anticipated “super-shooter,” Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost is inspired by Ubisoft’s hit game Far Cry Instincts®. Providing a completely new gaming experience, one which is designed with the arcade industry in mind, Paradise Lost takes players to a tropical island »
Dragon's Lair Could Be Headed To The Big Screen
You may recall Dragon’s Lairgetting a re-release on Blu-Raynot too long ago. Well now it seems that creator, Don Bluth, is hoping to realize his work on the big screen. IGN Movies says that there is an interview in the re-release with Bluth and producers that “mention that not only do they have »
Mini Arcade Cabinet Madness
Just look at this baby! A really great friend brought back this very cool mini arcade cabinet from Japan. It is actually an enclosure for a Playstation controller which I think was released for the Space Invaders Anniversary but the attention to detail is incredible, it even has metal legs. Lift up the lid and inside you can mount a »
Big Buck Hunter's Popularity Growing
I first discovered this game about a year and a half ago in one of my locals. I swear myself and about 3 of my friends went to no other pub and played no other games for about six month straight. Do you know why we stopped playing the game? Because they removed it »
Ebay Listing of the Week
Tempest Originally released in 1980 by Atari, this shooter involves you travelling around the edge of a 3-dimensional tunnel. Instead of using a joystick you controlled the ship with a roller ball. The cabinet is in good condition, and from the screen shots you can see it working. Shame I can’t afford it »
Game of the Week
Pac-Land This edition of Game of the Week I have chosen another game that I used to spend alot of my pocket money on. Looking back at it now, it’s not the greatest game in the world, and I’m sure there were alot of other great games that I could have been playing if »
Man Shows Up At Arcade With Own Set Of Skee Balls
As my first post on this blog, here’s a funny story from the satire site The Onion: Regulars at the Fun Time arcade were surprised to see newcomer Hank Carlton open a velvet-lined case containing a set of top of the line skee balls last night. Carlton explained that his regulation-play skee balls »
New In The Arcades – April '07
23 Apr 2007 By Kevin Williams One of the three formats of game genre that is ever-green for amusement – the driving format – benefits from the creation of a realistic driving cockpit to experience the thrills of high-speed action within. No matter how much console developers manufacturer force-feed-back steering wheels to play »
Streets of Rage 2 On VC
I know it’s not exactly an arcade game but is the sequel to one of the all time classic arcade side scrolling beat-em ups. [via The Last Boss] This has been one of the best weeksfor the Wii Virtual Console ever, with Punch Out being re-released earlier this week. It gets better though, »
The Evolving Amusement Dimension
Here is a very good article about the current state of the amusement industry by Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report. Some interesting news you will find is that GlobalVR is working on a Blazing Angels arcade as well as further developments with many other 3rd party developers starting to bring their IPs to »
