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Closure of A Few Japanese Arcades does not signal that the end is near
I can’t help but feel somewhat amused at all the attention online news sources are giving to the news that Namco Bandai will be closing 50-60 of their arcades in Japan due to “high
Read More »More Atarigames.com updates
I know I just mentioned some updates to the Atarigames website not too long ago but it looks like just a few days later they posted some more stuff that to anyone that enjoys
Read More »Original Street Fighter IV characters in action
First we had scans and now we have full screen shots of the original Street Fighter characters of how they will appear in the the upcoming arcade game Street Fighter IV. Japanese magazine Famitsu
Read More »Celebrating Space Invader's 30th anniversary
Cometh the Invader! The 30th Anniversary of ‘Space Invaders’ will play a major part in promoting the Taito empire over the coming months – the AOU show in Japan will be awash with celebrations.
Read More »More positive ATEI and arcade coverage
It’s good to know that not everyone who visited ATEI thought that it meant that the arcade scene was just months away from certain doom. Between us and The Stinger Report, it seemed that
Read More »Space Ace heads to HD-DVD and Blu-Ray this April
When Dragon’s Lair was released on the new high-definition formats several months ago, we already knew about the development of Space Ace as well as Dragon’s Lair 2 for these same formats but we
Read More »So very close to opening my arcade
I finally got some good news on my arcade this morning and because of it the ball will really start rolling now. Kmart, the owners of the strip mall I am going to open
Read More »Stinger's ATEI review @ SPoNG.com
The Stinger Report has pointed us to their ATEI review at SPoNG.com which includes some more photos and a nice overall review of what went on at ATEI. As long as an arcade event
Read More »Weird Wednesday: English of the Dead & Pirates in Virtua Fighter 5
It’s been a funny old day today. Found both of these of the gaming blog machine that is Kotaku. First up we have a new DS game from Sega. There was House of the
Read More »Missing in Action: Space Games
Over the next little while I am going to run a feature every now and then where I discuss genres which have been “lost” to arcades. Where these genres were once a proud part
Read More »AOU Build Up – Action Cop by Konami
Thanks to the Stinger Report here’s one up and coming look for something to expect at AOU 2008 (among many other games): Action Cop by Konami. We have reported about this game several times
Read More »Passing through Vegas and need an arcade to go to?
When most people think of gaming in Vegas, only gambling comes to mind but even in large casinos the chances of finding an arcade game room there are pretty good. In fact there are
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