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Archive for February, 2009
Sega Arcade Miniatures
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Pixelarcade T-Shirt
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Three pixelbeauties
Theres a new design at LowRez: A Pixelart of three classic cabinets.
[ Available at LowRez Retroshirts ]
Nostalgic Arcade Sounds
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Prehistoric audiostorage
Thats seems to be to nice to be true: Two guys recorded sounds in the arcade they hang up (”Just Fun”, Ithaca, NY) from 1982 until 1988. One of them stored the audiotapes and rediscovered them 1997. Now they are available at coinopvideogames. Hear them to bring back good memories how it was playing games back in the days.
[ found at arcadeheroes ]
Ringedge/Ringwide specs – Border Break will use the new hardware
Friday, February 20th, 2009
It’s PC-based
Sega releases specs about their new hardware. The two systems are not consoles, they’re arcade-boards! Border Break (Screens after the jump) will be under the first games, released with the Ringedge hardware. (more…)
CastleVania – The Arcade Game
Friday, February 20th, 2009
The Walk-in-Cabinet
Konami shows a CastleVania arcade game at the AOU which is controlled with a Wii-like motion controller. You can watch a gameplayvideo and features of the controller at the official site.
[ found at arcadeheroes ]
Fanboy Tees at LowRez
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Youre a true fanboy which get on everybodys nerves while fighting for your system? Than you need this:
[available at LowRez Retroshirts]
New Sega Game-Ride: Storm-G
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Storm-G units
Sega will install eight units of a new bobsliding game, called ”Storm-G“ in their amusment park Joypolis in Tokyo. Two people can seat in one unit, which seats can spin around 360° on one axis. The Game is some kind of fastspeed bobsliding in the future with excellent graphics. (more…)
Midway USA Bancrupt
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Fatility for Midway?
Heres the next bad news, found on the Midway Pressreleases:
MIDWAY’S U.S. OPERATIONS FILE FOR CHAPTER 11 REORGANIZATION
Company notes strong underlying fundamentals, but cites recent change in control as the key trigger in need for planned, orderly reorganization Midway’s European operations are unaffected and continue business as normal (more…)
Sega closes Arcades (and more)
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Sometimes the world isnt hedgehogfriendly.
Sega’s Japanes main branch announced, that it will close 110 of its 450 arcades, lay off 18 percent of it stuffs and cancel some games. The reason for these steps are an annual loss of 25 billion yen (about $238 million) during the fiscal year.
[ Found in wired ]
Chun Li Action Figure
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Chun Li
Theres a nice vinyl-figure of Chun Li at NCSX. It shows her like she looks back in the days at Street Fighter II. The only bad thing is the price: 179,90 $. (more…)