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Cool footage from an arcade convention in Chicago from 1982 (updated)
Long ago, arcade shows were much bigger than they are now, which was due to the arcade market itself being much bigger than it is today. What would it have been like to visit
Read More »Sega location testing Let's Go Island at Club Sega in Akihabara
The only disappointment I had at Amusement Expo this year was I went in expecting to see an actual cabinet of the new Sega shooter Let’s Go Island and instead they only had a
Read More »R3Play retro gaming expo coming in November to Blackpool, UK
Via If you live anywhere near Blackpool in the UK then heads-up – a classic gaming expo (which will include an arcade presence as well) is scheduled to be taking place there this coming
Read More »UNIS shows off Crazy Speed
Not long ago we found out about a new arcade racer by Taiwanese company UNIS (or Universal Space) called Crazy Speed Arcade but there were very few details on the game. We could assume
Read More »Arcade oddity of the day: Walk the Dog by Sega
(Thanks to Rjay on the forums for bringing this up) As news has been a tad slow, why not do a post about another arcade oddity again? Today I’ll cover something I have heard
Read More »Asteroids High Score World record broken
While we don’t report about every single world record that is broken on here, occasionally there are ones which are broken which are just too impressive to pass by. I heard about this on
Read More »Super Street Fighter 4 will get an arcade release UPDATED
(console version cover art) Via A couple of weeks ago we reported that Capcom would bring out Super Street Fighter IV (which had previously been announced as a console-only title) to arcades if the
Read More »More arcade goodness from PAX East (updated with Wil Wheaton)
As I had mentioned a few days ago, we had some more pictures from the PAX East (Boston) event coming up and here they are, thanks to Adam Pfeifer. Most of these are of
Read More »Konami prepping a Pop N' Music 19 with a 3D display
Music game fans, there’s some love for you out there too as Konami has announced a new Pop ‘n Music, called Pop N’ Music IIDXG, which takes elements from all of your favorite bemani
Read More »Spice up your Apple iPad with the new iCade from ThinkGeek
When a new gadget comes out that everyone has to have, that gadget only becomes cool when there is a way to turn it into a real arcade game. Such is the case with
Read More »Who is up for an Arcana Heart Vs. Blazblue game?
While Vs. Fighting games which bring two different licenses or fighters together are nothing new in the arcade industry, when a new one happens it usually causes a stir of excitement simply because it
Read More »Action buttons – a classic arcade tribute sculpture
Via When you think of sculptures, the likely thought to enter the mind is something carved out of stone. But that doesn’t always have to be the case, as we see here with this
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