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Two Books About Atari’s Arcade Days Coming In June
Ever since I was a kid, I have had a little infatuation for Atari, starting with the discovery of the Atari 2600 and later on their many other systems and arcade games. So if
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Arcade Retro Throwback Cereal Boxes At Target
When I was a kid I enjoyed breakfast cereal just like anyone else and I have a couple of memories of the cereal boxes back then. I remember this E.T. cereal and these weird
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Coin-op alumni brought together to make new iPad games
Newsfeed 1165 via I can’t say I particularly care for this trend of news that deals with more with mobile devices lately than actual arcades, but the kind of news that we generally focus
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Steve Jobs’ brief time in the arcade industry
I am sure that by now you have heard the news of Steve Jobs’ passing and with that there have been a number of articles out there covering some part of his personal history.
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Arcade Related: Atari’s Arcade Duo for iPad; Arcade pin set
Newsfeeds 1106 & 1107 via While I work on an article for my visit to Specular Interactive yesterday, The Stinger Report sent us a few arcade related stuff that’s quick and easy to get
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Arcade news you can abuse for the weekend
If you’re in the US then you are possibly travelling somewhere, or hosting visitors for the 4th of July weekend. If not, it’s still a 4-day weekend which is always great to take advantage
Read More »SNK celebrates 20 years of Neo Geo with shirts and cups
Newsfeeds 922 & 923 via The Neo Geo MVS is undoubtedly one of the most important arcade hardware platforms created to this day. The system had support for over a decade and in that
Read More »Paperboy concept art and an MK9 arcade cabinet
The two subjects of our headline have nothing to do with each other except that I found them both on the KLOV forums today. Yes, it’s a slow news day. So here goes a
Read More »The wayback machine videos for today are…
It’s Sunday so in lieu of news, we have videos to point out. I’m not sure why it seems like we’re getting a lot of videos of arcades from the early 80’s showing up
Read More »Weekend videos: Atari' Hercules Pinball and Taito's Ice Cold Beer
What do you do when there’s not much news to discuss? Find some videos showcasing the stranger or cooler products found in arcade days past. here are two videos from TNT Amusements, who has
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 »Check out these Atari glasses
Most of the news regarding Atari over the past few years has been negative – of the company barely holding on, churning through CEO’s at an alarming pace and not releasing many games that
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