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Power Instinct returns this summer

Shaggy April 8, 2009 0

[Thanks to Brandon Jones for the tip!] Here is something we overlooked from AOU 2009 – Atlus is bringing one of their classic fighters back to arcades, Power Instinct. From the video below it

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Some King of Fighters XII news

Shaggy April 8, 2009 3

April is the month that King Of Fighters XII finally arrives and with that there are a couple of things that are worth mentioning.  First remember to check out the official Japanese website for the game for

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Own the fabulous "Game Carry" Model Car

Shaggy April 4, 2009 4

[Thanks to Oga Shi for the tip!] Kids everywhere can never get enough of the ice cream truck, assuming they have money for it. But what if someone made a car that offered other

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Japanese arcades to test new e-payment system

Shaggy March 28, 2009 3

JAMMA (also known as the Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers Association) announced today that testing will begin on April 1st, 2009 for the use of a universal cashless e-payment system. The test will last for

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Taito To Bring FPS To Arcades Again

Twisted Supreme March 27, 2009 0

Back in 2006 Taito brought out an arcade version of the legendary game Half Life 2. This game was fairly unique as it retained the FPS sytle game play of Valve’s flagship title. This

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Taito's Space Invaders 30th Anniversary Celebration to end with a bang

Shaggy March 24, 2009 0

I received this a couple of days ago but as it was all in Japanese in a form that the online translator could not do anything with it (I have noticed many Japanese sites

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Arc System Works wants you to go dragon hunting (in Japan)

Shaggy March 18, 2009 4

Another cool terminal game is hitting the arcades in Japan, this time it is Dragon Hunter by Arc System Works (same company that brought us BlazBlue). This title is not a fighter but a

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Konami already testing a sequel/update to uBeat

Shaggy March 17, 2009 0

One game I had hoped to see at ASI was Konami’s uBeat. There had been a US location test but since then we have heard pretty much nothing about the game here. Sadly, we

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And you thought you had seen everything when it came to claw machines…

Shaggy March 17, 2009 0

AH friend Kevin Williams is on the road but still is sending us newsfeeds (sorry I missed you at ASI BTW), this time of the strangest crane machine I have seen yet. I will

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A few more details on Taito's Elevator Action Death Parade

Shaggy March 7, 2009 1

A Japanese fan site that is dedicated to light-gun titles has posted a detailed preview of Taito’s upcoming game, Elevator Action: Death Parade and with it, a few more details on how the game

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Some proof that plenty of people still love arcades in Japan

Shaggy February 25, 2009 2

Sorry about the lack of updates for the past few days, everyone is busy and there has been little internet time as of late. You might recall that over the past year or so,

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AOU 2009 Video goodness

Shaggy February 21, 2009 0

The proverbial floodgates have opened on videos taken at AOU2009 and here is a collection of some of the video titles. We won’t know for a little while if any of these games will

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