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Sega Announces Plants Vs. Zombies The Last Stand Arcade
UPDATE: Some new info has been released about this. It is NOT a touchscreen game. Details. Last year I heard a rumor that among the efforts to translate some popular home games to the arcade that an official effort was being made to include Plants Vs. Zombies onto that roster. In China, unauthorized efforts »
This Week In Arcades – Location Tests and Trade Shows
Well that was a sudden slowdown in news, after the spurt we had with Batman Arcade and Star Trek pinball. Admittedly I have been partially distracted by the arrival of a Nintendo WiiU into my household (which at first came with a bad disc drive so I had to get it replaced – despite »
Meet N’ Greet With Several Arcade Creators This Saturday At The General Chaos Arcade Party in Brookfield, IL
If you ever wanted to meet up with a creator or designer of a classic arcade game then the opportunities are often infrequent. Aside from an occasional classic game expo you might get lucky with an arcade trade show although those aren’t always open to the public. An event this Saturday at the Galloping »
Atlus’ Brief History In Arcades
This evening (or morning, if you are in Japan), news broke out that Sega has purchased video game development company Atlus (well to be specific, the parent company that now goes by Index) for only 14 Billion Yen ($141 million USD). I kid with the ‘only’ part but the news had me thinking about »
First Pic of Raw Thrills’ BATMAN Arcade Cabinet
(Please note, a couple of updates have been added below) UPDATE (11/5/13): An interview with Steven Ranck of Specular Interactive about Batman is up now with many more details including new videos! Some weeks ago we ran a story about a new arcade title coming from Raw Thrills and Specular Interactive (creators of H2Overdrive »
Star Trek Pinball Now In Production, Different Game Versions Detailed
The other day Stern Pinball announced that their next pinball machine, Star Trek Pinball, was coming soon and just now they have announced it as in production. They also have published pictures of the three different models and playfields, which you can check out below. In case you missed news on this one up »
Next Up In The Arcade High Score Wars – MAN VS SNAKE
Since the early days of arcade gaming and single player games started making their way onto the scene, the concept of “Man Vs. Machine” has been a challenge taken seriously by many gamers. That seriousness was documented in the famous The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, which set the standard for visually »
Project DIVA Arcade Future Tone To Feature New Sega Arcade Hardware “Nu”
I know for some Sega fans, hearing new hardware and Sega in a sentence may sound like link trolling. We’re not here to bait with fantasies of a Dreamcast 2 but in the world of arcades, Sega still needs something to power their arcade games with, topped off with fancy names for the configurations »
16-Bit Bar+Arcade Opens In Columbus, OH; Asheville Pinball Musuem in Asheville, NC
Let’s keep the arcade location openings coming shall we? Once or twice a month is nice when that happens but with this post that will make three new locations opening their doors in August, that we know of. The other was discussed in this story yesterday. For the first of the two, here is »
Looking At Taito’s History As They Turn 60
This past Friday (the 24th) was a date that was important to arcade and video game history but I did not realize that until I saw a message on Facebook from Taito. Here is what they had to say: “It’s our birthday!! 60 years ago today, in 1953, TAITO (then the Taito Trading Company) »
Midway’s Unreleased Arcade Prototypes of the Past (Part 2)
When I did the research for Midway’s unreleased arcade prototypes of the past, I had a feeling that there should have been more. Perhaps that is a tainted view as a company like Atari is pretty well documented in that regard, however the reality is that many game companies of the past don’t seem »
Late Saturday News: Gamers Go Crazy for Guilty Gear Xrd in Japan; Galaxy Collision Air Hockey, Transformers at AAMA in US
Happy Saturday everyone. Just a couple of news blurbs here to share as everyone experiences the weekend. Some big location test news out of Japan for the new Guilty Gear Xrd Sign by Arc System Works. I do not believe that a lot of advance notice was given of the test but either way »
