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Specular Interactive/Raw Thrills Officially Unveils Dirty Drivin’

Specular Interactive/Raw Thrills Officially Unveils Dirty Drivin’

Shaggy August 18, 2011 0

Be sure to check out our in-depth behind-the-scenes look at Dirty Drivin’ if you haven’t already! While we got information about this ahead of time, jumping the gun a little bit as it was

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The Change Machine T-Shirt

The Change Machine T-Shirt

Shaggy August 16, 2011 1

Newsfeed 1097 via It’s near impossible to track down all of the clever T-Shirts that have been made over the years to feature something arcade-related. But I can’t say I’ve ever come across a

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The world of arcades, shown in quarters

Shaggy August 12, 2011 2

Newsfeed 1095 via In lieu of real news, some entertainment that is arcade related both with quarters and in content. This is some great animation work and has a very strong “demo scene” vibe

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New documentary: Star Worlds: A pocket Full of Tokens and I’m Heading to the Arcade

Shaggy August 10, 2011 2

Since The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters made it’s popular debut, we’ve been seeing an increase in documentaries about our industry, although so far they have only focused on classic arcade gaming

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How to Spice Up your Wedding & Reception: Have an Arcade Gameroom!

How to Spice Up your Wedding & Reception: Have an Arcade Gameroom!

Shaggy August 5, 2011 2

I’ve been to plenty of wedding receptions (including my own) but here is something I have never seen done, although it’s crossed my mind – setting up some arcade games for guests to play.

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Terminator Salvation’s Postmortem in Game Developer Magazine

Terminator Salvation’s Postmortem in Game Developer Magazine

Shaggy August 5, 2011 1

I’ve been getting Game Developer Magazine for some time now – it’s not your typical game magazine since it’s made for developers in the industry and not so much the gamers. But if you

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Konami testing GuitarFreaks & DrumMania XG3 in Japan

Konami testing GuitarFreaks & DrumMania XG3 in Japan

Shaggy August 4, 2011 3

It’s that time of year again – the time for Konami to test out the latest version of their GuitarFreaks and DrumMania arcade music games. I’m sure it will include a variety of new

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Bloggers visit Mike’s CarnEvil arcade in Iowa

Bloggers visit Mike’s CarnEvil arcade in Iowa

Shaggy August 4, 2011 1

Newsfeed 1084 via I wasn’t sure at first how to approach this article on 1up.com entitled “Where Did Arcades Go?”. When I see stuff like the first thought I have is to once again

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Plaza Theatre in Atlanta, GA classic arcade setup confiscated by The Man (aka, state of Georgia)

Plaza Theatre in Atlanta, GA classic arcade setup confiscated by The Man (aka, state of Georgia)

Shaggy August 3, 2011 5

(Thanks to Mark Arson for the tip) UPDATE: Since this story broke, it looks like some fans of Plaza have come to the rescue, covering the fees and allowing Plaza to keep the games.

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New Deal or No Deal coming + Aquarace Extreme 3D

Shaggy August 2, 2011 4

Everyone’s favorite videmption game ever is getting a sequel. We don’t have any pics of it yet but Play Mechanix has revealed that the new version of the game is out there somewhere with

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More CAX coverage + new documentary called ARCADE

More CAX coverage + new documentary called ARCADE

Shaggy July 28, 2011 1

One nice thing about the annual California Extreme (CAX) annual event is that it generates a bit of media coverage for arcade and pinball machines. The latest outlet to do so is Wired.com, who

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Darius Burst Another Chronicle EX and new BlazBlue unveiled

Darius Burst Another Chronicle EX and new BlazBlue unveiled

Shaggy July 27, 2011 2

Darius Burst Another Chronicle has certainly stirred some attention around the world, it has had a solid release in Japan, and it was shown in Europe a short time ago as well. It should

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