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Anti-violent video game laws brewing in state legislatures – what effect on coin-op?
In the world of video games, we’ve always had to battle negative and usually erroneous opinions regarding our hobby, especially when it comes to violent video games. There was a time when arcades were
Read More »Missing in Action: Scrolling Fighters
Missing In Action is a column where we take a look at genres that have all but disappeared in the arcade industry as light-gun games, racers and dancers have primarily replaced other types of
Read More »Tank Adventure and Drum Party
Here are a couple of new games that I discovered via Highway Games, called Tank Adventure and Drum Party respectively. Both games are in development by Tecway Development which is based out of Taiwan.
Read More »LightSpace at IHRSA 2008
LightSpace, the interactive floor LED coin-op game that we have mentioned a few times on this site is going to make an appearance as the IHRSA 2008 show that will take place on March
Read More »Play Value Redeems itself with new arcade video
Way back in August of last year, ON Networks’ Play Value show ran a video discussing the “Death of the Arcade” and after misrepresenting the industry and putting forth some ridiculous “facts” (such as
Read More »Pricing for Blazing Angels and UFO Stomper
We have more price ranges for two new arcade titles, GlobalVR’s Blazing Angels and Trio-Tech’s UFO Stomper. Keep in mind that these are prices according to one distributor and different distributors will carry these
Read More »Sega testing new Sega Rally racer in UK arcades?
[Thanks to tipster JimmyB!] A poster at the NTSC-UK forums found something interesting when they dropped by a place known as the Birmingham Five Ways Bowlplex. While the poster went there to play 2Spicy,
Read More »Tekken 6 – Artificial Shortage by Namco?
Here’s another feature article from our friends at The Stinger Report. Enjoy! Tekken 6 – Artificial Shortage? Players in the US and UK accuse Namco of creating an artificial shortage of Tekken 6 machines.
Read More »Golden Tee to be featured at all Chicago Rush home games
Before I get started I should point out that this article discusses American-football and not soccer (or what is called football everywhere else 🙂 ). In particular it discusses Arena Football, which is a
Read More »King of Fighters XII English Trailer
It looks like KOF 12 was shown off at GDC and with it an English translation of the Japanese trailer (I couldn’t find any other differences). Video via youtube user ikarileo which is via
Read More »76 "Mom and Pop" Japanese Game Centers
If you enjoy checking out the many arcades that are out there(or have been in the past), this may be of interest. Oga from Japan pointed us to a site that covers information on
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