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Video interview with Fukio "MTJ" Mitsuji
You’ll have to chalk this up to “better late than never” but last year on Dec. 11th 2008 Fukio Mitsuji passed away. He created some very memorable arcade titles at Taito so it’s good
Read More »SFIV sequel in the works? Most likely
If you know anything about the history of Street Fighter then you come to expect that Capcom will release an update or two for the game which adds more characters, moves and other items
Read More »Videos of Sega’s Heat Up Hockey
[Via AM Net and Gigazine] One game I have really been wanting to see in action from the recent JAMMA trade show would be Sega’s new Heat Up Hockey. Fortunately after a short wait,
Read More »Round-up from the JAMMA show (updated)
Since I don’t have the opportunity to visit the JAMMA show in Japan, we have to rely on what other sites are showing us in regards to what is going on over there. Thanks
Read More »More articles on the perceived state of the arcade industry
It’s been a slow couple of days for arcade news but amongst the slowdown there are a few articles worth noting that deal with the “arcades are dead” consensus. As you know I personally
Read More »Raw Thrills'/Play Mechanix unveil Big Buck Hunter: Open Season
While a vast majority of news about new arcade titles has been coming out of Japan lately, AMOA is almost here and that means some game news from outside Japan for a change. This
Read More »SFIV Vewlix cabinet on eBay – how "real" is it?
Not satisfied with building your own arcade cabinet for SFIV and you want the real, “official” thing? Then this auction on eBay is for you. The seller apparently won this through Gamestop/Capcom’s sweepstakes by
Read More »Brent Sales bringing Tank! Tank! Tank! and PUTT: Championship Golf to Europe
Good news for our European readers, in case you were wondering when Namco would be bringing Tank! Tank! Tank! to Europe. Brent Sales has sent out a press release stating that they will be
Read More »Catching up: Arcade Heroes Podcast #7
The podcast is back and apologies in advance about the delay with that – for the past few weeks I have been in a transition phase moving my arcade from one location to another.
Read More »Holy cow: Sega also doing a giant Tetris game (updated)
From Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report. The top game is Sega’s new Shining Force Cross RPG game. Beneath that – well it speaks for itself. This is obviously not the same thing as
Read More »KOF goes all shmup-y with KOF Sky Stage
KOF fan purists – brace yourselves. Or you might want to skip this post entirely but then again the damage is already done if you even noticed this. For everyone else – talk about
Read More »Sega to release Tetris: The Grandmaster 4 The Masters of Round
In the past I have lamented about the fact that we don’t really see puzzle games made for arcades anymore, despite the fact that such titles are a perfect fit for the arcade gaming
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