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.
Archive for the ‘Arcade’ Category
CastleVania – The Arcade Game
Friday, February 20th, 2009New 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 ]
Elevator Action: Death Parade
Monday, February 9th, 2009
Even with elevator-music?
Taito is bringing Elevator Action back. It’s a light-gun title. It has sliding doors … I don’t know if these are good or bad news 
[ AM-Net ]
Jaleco Leaves the Videogame-Businnes :(
Monday, February 9th, 2009
Good bye E.D.F.
Jaleco Holdings is leaving the industry. As of January 15, 2009, the company transferred 100 percent of ownership in subsidiary Jaleco, best known for Bases Loaded, P-47 and Irritating Stick, to an online game company GAME YAROU. (more…)
Bricks are the New Joysticks
Monday, February 9th, 2009
Block Pipo
Sega shows a brick-controlled game at the AOU2009. Looks like the Lemmings meets Lego and it seems to be a lot of fun.
Block Pipo (YouTube)
[ SEGA’s AOU2009 site ]
Border Break announcement
Friday, February 6th, 2009
Border Break
Now, before people get ahead of themselves; SEGA are making a new mecha versus arcade game. Specifically one that is fully online that supports up to 20 players (10 a side). It’s also being handled by SEGA AM2 and will most probably be on Lindbergh hardware (though the latter is an assumption on my part). (more…)
Rock The Night Away
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Guitar Hero
Raw Thrills, Konami & Activision collaborate to bring one of the hottest entertainment franchises to Coin-Op-Guitar Hero Arcade! This 2-player upright cabinet has been developed & designed to draw fans & players out of their homes & into locations where a commercial arcade version can be found. (more…)
