Arcade Games Archive

  • Bring the retro-bowling arcade experience home

    Bring the retro-bowling arcade experience home

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    People love arcade games, and have since the 50's. Some of the earliest games were based off of other recreations, like for example bowling. I remember playing one of these in the arcade in town during my youth, but it never held the attraction to me like Battle Zone or Asteroids did.

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  • PuppyArcade: A standalone, CD-based OS for playing old arcade game

    PuppyArcade: A standalone, CD-based OS for playing old arcade game

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    While I think the passion for building stand-up arcade games has waned recently, it’s nice to see that someone out there is still thinking of the children. PuppyArcade by Scott Jarvis is a CD-based arcade system that boots in any PC and allows you to access MAME ROMs on almost any disk. The game plays [...]

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  • CrunchGear in China: Shanzhai Market

    CrunchGear in China: Shanzhai Market

    Posted on December 11, 2009 | No Comments
    The cellphone market in Shenzhen is like a flea market where everyone is selling the same thing. If it looks like an iPhone, it’s here. There are hundreds of models, hundreds of odd names, and hundreds of people arrayed along the inside of a huge room. There are four or five floors of this mess. [...]

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  • Hey, UK, get ready for an Xbox 360 price increase

    Hey, UK, get ready for an Xbox 360 price increase

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Microsoft will raise the price of the Xbox 360 in the UK in order to “counteract the poor pound-to-Euro currency exchange rate.” UK gamers will have to pay £159.99 ($260) for the Arcade model, up from £129.99 ($211).

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  • Michael Jackson’s sad, sad toy barn

    Michael Jackson’s sad, sad toy barn

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    These panoramas show the remains of MJ’s secret toy lair complete with C3-P0, Batman, and Darth Vader dolls along with some bikes, some Bruce Lee stuff, and a few lumpen Power Rangers. This is the detritus of an overgrown kid with attention disorder. It jumps from cool thing to cool thing and even includes an arcade [...]

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  • Arcade on wheels? Yes, please

    Arcade on wheels? Yes, please

    Posted on June 30, 2009 | No Comments
    g2uAn arcade on wheels? Now THAT is a good idea. Don't get too excited, though, as these are basically glorified console setups, not old-school arcade machines. This isn't about us, though, this is about the children. And the children think Ms. Pac-Man is boring. Ergo, no stand-up arcade machines.

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  • Microsoft confirms Xbox 360 Arcade models shipping with 512MB of memory

    Microsoft confirms Xbox 360 Arcade models shipping with 512MB of memory

    Posted on June 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Just a quick update on the story we posted yesterday about an Xbox 360 Arcade model with 512MB of built-in memory; it’s true! Microsoft confirmed with Eurogamer a wee bit ago. Hit the jump for the official blurb from MS.

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