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Celebrate Donkey Kong’s Birthday this Weekend @ Star Worlds Arcade Classic Game Celebration

Celebrate Donkey Kong’s Birthday this Weekend @ Star Worlds Arcade Classic Game Celebration

arcadehero September 19, 2011 0

Many great games came out 30 years ago in 1981 and plenty of those games are iconic enough to hold players attention today. Among the more famous ’81 titles is Donkey Kong which has

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Ye Olde Coin-Op Games

Ye Olde Coin-Op Games

arcadehero September 17, 2011 5

(Thanks for the tip Imran!) While our primary obsession here has to do with either coin-op video games or pinball, there was a time before the video age where you still could get coin-op

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JAMMA ’11: Operation GHOST; Taito TypeX3 specs; Block King

JAMMA ’11: Operation GHOST; Taito TypeX3 specs; Block King

arcadehero September 16, 2011 2

JAMMA is wrapping up and one thing that means is that more videos are now on te web of what was at the show. There was no big annoucement for some new Sega hardware

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JAMMA ’11: Videos of Taito booth & Games; TypeX3 and Virtua Tennis 4 pics

arcadehero September 15, 2011 0

Continuing the coverage of JAMMA 2011 in Japan (which is taking place along with the Tokyo Game Show in the hopes of improving attendance) we have some videos of the products to be seen

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Taito’s iCade clone: iNVADERCADE

Taito’s iCade clone: iNVADERCADE

arcadehero September 14, 2011 1

Newsfeed 1113 via One thing I would use a time machine for right now, if they existed, would be to go a short ways down the road to get all of these iCade clones

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Getting to know Dirty Drivin’ and Specular Interactive

Getting to know Dirty Drivin’ and Specular Interactive

arcadehero September 8, 2011 10

Earlier this year we learned about a new arcade title in development by Specular Interactive called Dirty Drivin’.  In 2009 they created a spiritual successor to Hydro Thunder called H2Overdrive. Some of the team

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Sega’s Operation G.H.O.S.T. in motion

Sega’s Operation G.H.O.S.T. in motion

arcadehero September 7, 2011 14

(Via ) We’ve seen pictures and talked about it a bit already but now, we finally get to see the game briefly in action – Sega’s follow-up to GHOST Squad, Operation GHOST. It’s a

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ArcSystem Works Releasing Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka to arcades in 2012

ArcSystem Works Releasing Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka to arcades in 2012

arcadehero August 31, 2011 6

(Via a tweet and forum post at ArcadeOtaku) ArcSystem Works, makers of fighting games like BlazBlue has another 2D fighter in the works for arcades and this one is called Persona 4: The Ultimate

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Namco considering location testing Tekken Tag 2 in the US

Namco considering location testing Tekken Tag 2 in the US

arcadehero August 30, 2011 11

(Thanks to ArcadeBelgium for retweeting this!) In an answer to a question from a fan today, Tekken producer Harada gave us some arcade news to talk about. The latest Tekken coming to market, Tekken

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Incredible Technologies Details Golden Tee LIVE 2012

Incredible Technologies Details Golden Tee LIVE 2012

arcadehero August 25, 2011 1

We’ve known about the next installment of Golden Tee for a while now  – not that it’s hard to guess about since Incredible Technologies has kept pace with releasing a new version of the

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Electric Theater Arcade Grand Opening Event Next Week in Independence, MO

Electric Theater Arcade Grand Opening Event Next Week in Independence, MO

arcadehero August 24, 2011 2

(Thanks to DasBacon for the tip) If you live in or near Independence Missouri, then a new arcade is about to open it’s doors, one that we have discussed in the past called The

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The Taiwanese Arcade where Tetris is King

arcadehero August 17, 2011 7

(Thanks to Shinichi on our Facebook page for the tip!) Any good restaurant has a signature dish that attracts locals in to enjoy it and in turn they give patronage to that restaurant, usually

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