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Our Japanese Arcade Friend
We received an email the other day from a fan of ours who comes all the way from Japan. He sent us a few links to some strange looking arcade games as well as
Read More »Taito expands their FEC business in Japan
The internet lit up last week when news came of Namco closing a bunch of their arcades and news sites were quick to jump on the news that between the Nintendo Wii and high
Read More »AOU 2008 ends on a high note and AOU Booth Babes
(Image via Famitsu) AOU 2008 is over now and one thing is certain – there is still plenty of interest in arcades despite the presence of the Nintendo Wii in people’s homes. The lines
Read More »Would you wait 90 minutes in line to play SFIV? (AOU 2008)
Just a friendly reminder from us and The Stinger Report that if scenes like the one above means that the arcade scene is totally dead (even in Japan – my guess is Namco probably
Read More »AOU 2008 Famitsu report – arcades bringing new innovations to the scene
With the flurry of news coming around with AOU, it’s hard to post about all of them on the current schedule I have (although Arcade Renaissance is doing an excellent job at that) but
Read More »AOU 2008 – Videos of Jubeat, Action Cop, BlazBlue, Gundam and KOF XII
From youtube user Gigazine comes some videos from AOU 2008. I have to say that it’s nice that so much attention is being given to arcades right now because of AOU but at the
Read More »AOU Pamphlets of Street Fighter IV, Blazblue, Jubeat, more
One site has posted scans of some pamphlets of several games being showcased at AOU. All the text is in Japanese of course but you still can get an idea of what’s going on.
Read More »Delta32 – new generic cabinet out of Japan (AOU 2008)
Among the many new things we’ll be seeing out of Japan over the next few days, here is a new generic cabinet that is making it’s debut. Arcade cabinets in Japan have their own
Read More »Couple of new games in Japan – BlazBlue and Trouble Witches
[Via Arcade Renaissance] Go ahead and put these under the “We’re not sure if they’ll ever be released outside of Japan” category. OK, you might see it as an import but it seems that
Read More »AOU 2008 info site – Street Fighter 4 for arcades on the list
AM Net has posted their AOU 2008 site and with it some interesting information. Probably one of the big ones: Street Fighter 4 is expected to be exhibited at the show. AFAIK, Capcom has
Read More »The Lord of Vermilion – new 'Squenix' arcade game creates lines in Japan
SquareEnixs’ new coin-op game The Lord of Vermilion began it’s testing phase in Japan today and as seen on Game Watch, it’s already a smashing success. A line of people eager to play the
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Namco’s Animal Kaiser Coming Soon To Japan
[Via The Stinger Report] Namco has released their first foray into the vending arena for kids, known as Animal Kaiser. We don’t know much about the game, but I have this 3D render of
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