6/26/2007

 
Calling David Jaffe
The Phoenix - Boston,MA,USA... off-kilter visuals and madcap energy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, CAC captures the simple appeal of classic multiplayer arcade games like Super Sprint. ...
Kent panel OKs skilled game arcade Business could be open in ...
Ravenna Record Courier - Ravenna,OH,USAKent City Council recently approved an ordinance permitting such arcade games. The ordinance includes fees and requires that skilled entertainment machine ...
Technology helps Bally's market reboundThe Courier News - Elgin,IL,USAThe company also brought up "Space Invaders," "Pac-Man" and "Ms. Pac-Man," among its lineup of arcade games. After 10 years of acquisitions and diversifying ...
Dougherty still finds magic in Des Moines
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USAI've always had pinball machines. I've got four cars - two 1958 Chevys, a '57 Chevy and a '63 split-window Corvette. And I have eight jukeboxes now. ...
NEWS.COM SPECIAL REPORT: Best arcade games of the 80s
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USAIt's not just the mountain air. Some of the designs at this year's Geneva auto show are truly breathtaking. At the 77th International Motor Show--that's its ...
Firefighters hit jackpot from pinball fundraiser
Bucks Free Press - London,UKBy Lucy Clapham A GROUP of firefighters got a special thank you from pinball enthusiasts after rescuing a man from a motorway smash just minutes before ...
Namco Networks Announces Availability of Namco's Hit Arcade Titles ...
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA... a leading publisher and developer of wireless games and network content, today announced the availability of Namco's best-selling arcade classics for ...
Lightspace Corporation Enters Coin Op Market with the Release of ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USAFor the first time ever, Play 2.0 is available as a coin-operated system giving it the necessary capabilities to expand its reach into the arcade, ...
Disney tripling games spending
PSPSPS - London,England,UKDisney is set to triple the amount it spends developing video games, according to this story on Reuters. Disney spent around 100 million dollars developing ...
Treasure Hunting
Flathead Beacon - Kalispell,MT,USAThe coolest thing dad ever brought home was a coin-operated rocket ship. You can imagine how ecstatic I was as a 7-year-old when I saw our late-'50s red ...
Video game helps kids control their cancer
Xinhua - ChinaVideo games can be useful in distracting patients of all ages from the symptoms of their diseases and the side effects of treatments, according to a 2005 ...
A Pocket Full of Quarters - Using Coin Operated Machines in Moderation
SavingAdvice.com - Kirkland,WA,USAQuarters add up - the arcade game industry makes $8.1 billion in proceeds, ...
Playing video games at work
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,CanadaHow about playing video games? Creative businesses like advertising agencies have long had rooms filled with toys and video games to spark the imagination ...
The Sweet Thud of Success - Target Toss Pro: Bags Transforms ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAAnd it's about to get even hotter, because Incredible Technologies -- creator of Golden Tee Golf, the most popular coin-operated video game in history ...
Game room reopens without rewards
Hernando Today - Brooksville,FL,USAFlorida law considers a coin-operated game illegal if its payout depends on chance instead of skill. So, Las Vegas-style slot machines don't meet the ...
Russian Game Museum Recalls Bygone Era
PC World - USASoviet-era arcade games built by secret military factories are featured in Moscow's newest museum. By Conor Sweeney MOSCOW (Reuters) - Forgotten and broken ...
vintage lives on in home décor
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USAHis passion is for vintage coin-operated arcade games, called "coin ops" among collectors. His assemblage of about 40 machines occupies the 2000-square-foot ...
Beyond fun, fathers playing video games with their kids to bond
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USAThe virtual worlds found in video games have become an increasingly popular place for fathers to bond with their children. "It's kind of difficult picking a ...
Home collectors reign in new pinball scene
KING5.com (subscription) - Seattle,WA,USAStern Pinball Inc., the only remaining producer of coin-operated pinball games in America, says a good chunk of its customers are home collectors - often, ...
Get a Taste of Touchmaster
IGN - Brisbane,CA,USATouchmaster is a collection of the same mini-games that were released in bars in the touch-controlled Touchmaster coin operated game machines. ...
Game over! for pinball wizard's collection
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,AustraliaANTHONY Donnelly's mum had reached the end of her tether and issued an ultimatum: reduce the pinball machine collection now. Her 42-year-old son has a ...
Game is on as pinball wizard Bally turns 75
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USALAS VEGAS The company immortalized in The Who's 1969 song "Pinball Wizard" has turned a wizened 75 and perhaps more importantly turned a corner in its ...
Action County: Joel Godfrey
Summit Daily News - Frisco,CO,USABY ADAM BOFFEY Soon after Joel Godfrey started playing pinball as a 16-year-old in St. Louis, he adopted the Who's "Pinball Wizard" as his theme song. ...
Pinball Globalization
Manufacturers' Blog - Washington,DC,USAEncountered for the first time at 6:15 am Sunday in the Minneapolis airport: A bilingual pinball machine, Spanish and English. Well, it is Stern's "Pirates ...
College Librarians Urged to Play Video Games
Wired Blogs - USA... 2007 2:48:17 PMCategories: Education Attendees of the annual American Library Association meeting were advised to play more video games in order to ...
Doctors: Video Games Not an Addiction (for now)
GameDAILY BIZ - USAAs we previously reported, the American Medical Association (AMA) had been looking into whether or not video games can actually be considered an addiction. ...
Brett Ratner Will Direct 'Playboy,' Hugh Hefner Biopic
Cinematical - Santa Monica,CA,USAPerhaps it's due to all the Playboy pinball he's played, or used to play, as Variety also says that Ratner sent Grazer his Playboy pinball machine. ...
Pinball wizard
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USAInside the basement of Prescott's modest single-story ranch on Beckley Hill sits a wicked assortment of pinball machines, arcade games and poker tables, ...
Capcom CEO on Online Games and Distribution
Beyond3D (press release) - USABloomberg interviewed Tsujimoto Kenzo, CEO of Capcom, on his company's future outlook on network based and distributed games. ...





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