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Newsbytes: Oakland Pinball Ban Lifted; New Atari Arcade Prototype: Time Bomb
Welcome to another Newsbytes rounding up a couple of interesting pieces of arcade news. Neither of these concern fresh product on the market but should be cool to read about… Oakland Pinball Ban Lifted – It might be hard to believe, but Blue Laws banning certain types of games still exist out there. Today »
Jersey Jack Pinball Unveils Playfield Art For The Hobbit Pinball
With E3 week we usually don’t get a lot of arcade news but Jersey Jack Pinball has something for us – a look at the artwork which will grace the playfield on their upcoming The Hobbit Pinball game. This finally gives us a proper idea of how the game will play, check it out: »
World Cup 2014: Soccer Arcade Games Through The Years
Back in 2002, I was in Brazil when the World Cup was taking place. The Winter Olympics had already happened back home but being in Brazil, I barely heard that event being mentioned. For World Cup 2002, it just so happened that the Brazilian team won the Cup for the fifth time and it »
NGDEVTEAM Unveils Razion for NEOGEO MVS Arcade Machines
We are quite familiar with NGDEVTEAM here, where they have been keeping SNK’s NEO GEO MVS hardware alive and well with games like NEO XYX, Last Hope and Gunlord. When they had recently announced that they were planning on doing development for Nintendo platforms like the 3DS and WiiU, I wondered if that meant »
Barcade Opening in Manhattan NYC On June 3rd
I recall that when I was first researching data on my business plan, that I contacted a LAN center in NYC and they freaked out when I mentioned the term arcade. That was because of how the local laws/fees/taxes are handled with such a business and they didn’t want to fall under that category. »
Great Arcade Attract Modes That Don’t Drive You Crazy
Anyone who has worked at an arcade for more than 2 hours will know what I am talking about when it comes to irritating attract modes. I’ve wondered if some designers have really sat there and listed to their game repeat itself once every few minutes over an 8-hour day. Some attract modes really »
Kriss Sport Releases Catch The Light/Neuron Race For Arcades Worldwide
Kriss Sport, a Polish developer of reflex/physical games like boxing machines has released a new competitive reflex game to markets in Europe, Japan and North America called Catch The Light. This is similar to the premise behind LAI’s popular Speed of Light redemption game, although setup in a way that makes it easier to »
Now Chuck E Cheeses Is Testing Out Oculus Rift VR
(Thanks to Luis Canon for the tip) First it was Dave & Busters setting up a “VR Lab” where they tested out some VR concepts, now Chuck E. Cheeses is doing the same with “Chuck E cheeses Virtual Ticket Blaster”. This is a setup that is entwined with their birthday party feature of putting the »
Stern Offers Their Factory To Build Medieval Madness Pinball Remakes
It looks like the Medieval Madness Pinball remake is just around the corner. The announcement last October that Planetary Pinball Supply had acquired the rights to the game and would be remaking it was cause for a lot of excitement and they later announced a partnership with Chicago Gaming Company. Now Stern Pinball has »
California Venues: Ultimate Gaming Center Open; Powersurge Closes
Thanks to Edward Castillo for the tip, here is a little news regarding locations in California to discuss. First let’s talk about the closure. About 4 years ago I had a post here on AH about a venue that opened up in LA which attempted to do the arcade concept but without the coin-op »
Arcade Pics/Video From The 2014 GTI Taipei Trade Show
(Thanks to Rico Shen of Music Fantasia for the pics) It’s the time of year for GTI Taipei, which is a trade show for manufacturers and distributors in Taiwan to strut their latest arcade games and related-products. Unfortunately the name is shared with some car models, which makes finding media for the event a »
Unboxing: Star Trek Premium Pinball
It has been quite a while since I purchased a pinball machine. In fact, the first and only time I did was when I opened my arcade up back in 2008 where I grabbed an Indiana Jones (Stern) and Shrek. They have served as the only pinball games I have offered since, although I »
