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Newsbytes: Stern’s Insider Connected; Prototype Atari Basketball Game; Frogger Game Show & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts that curates some quick news from around the world of arcades & pinball. We’re a bit heavier on the pinball this week, which is no problem at
Read More »The World’s Largest Frogger Spotted On Test
(Thanks to the anonymous tipster who sent this in!) It’s time for another new game to talk about, although all we have to go on is one photo. That hasn’t stopped us before, as
Read More »Newsbytes: House Of The Dead Prototype; CART; Beat Saber; Star Trek Day & More
As you can tell, arcade news has continued to be slow for September, which is pretty normal. As school starts up, there are many projects in the works that will be headed to IAAPA,
Read More »Newsbytes: Silverball City, 1996, Space Invaders Skill Slots, NTG#73
Happy weekend arcaders! News has begun to pile up finally so perhaps we are out of the doldrums of Winter…in that regard. Let’s get to it: Silverball City Coming To Johnson City, TN In April
Read More »5th Avenue Frogger
(Thanks to Adam Coate for the Tip) How do you make a classic game like Frogger more exciting? By using augmented reality and getting real time road traffic input for the game of course.
Read More »EAG 2011 – Full report
The January trade show season is always exciting, isn’t it? New games, lots of people, general excitement. For a few days, a part of London is all about the amusement trade. This year, however,
Read More »Stinger feeds: Real-life Frogger, Sonic’s 20th birthday, arcade art
Newsfeeds 980-982 via I’ve got a little catching up to do with Stinger newsfeeds once again as we have a few minor stories to look at. First is something that has been making the
Read More »IAAPA 2010: Betson/Raw Thrills booth
Continuing with the IAAPA gravy train here, we have the Betson booth, which featured products from Raw Thrills, Play Mechanix, Konami and Chicago Gaming. Here are some of the new games they had on-hand:
Read More »Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix/Betson IAAPA line-up announced with Big Buck World, new Frogger
The Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix/Betson group has unveiled their line-up of games for IAAPA and for anyone planning on heading to the show, you’ll have plenty to check out. While most of the games on
Read More »Pat Laffaye smashes the "Costanza Score" on Frogger
We have spoken of the Costanza Score before – the mythical score on the arcade game Frogger that was shown in an episode of the comedy TV show Seinfield back in the 90’s. When
Read More »A challenge towards the George Castanza Frogger high score happening now
If you have ever watched the sitcom Seinfield, chances are good if you are an arcade fan that you have seen the episode where George Castanza comes across an old Frogger arcade machine at
Read More »The unofficial Frogger DDR game
I’m not sure who the owner of Frogger is right now, if it’s Konami or someone else but this would be a great idea for a new DDR game. At the Newport Aquarium in
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