3/10/2008
Sega to build mega games arcade in Dubai
The West Australian - Perth,Western Australia,AustraliaIt saw a new lease on life after merging in 2004 with Sammy Corp, Japan’s top maker of pinball slot machines. Sega in a statement said it hoped the Dubai ...
US video game industry grows 43% over last year
GamePro.com - USAby Blake Snow 01/17/2008 4:13:15 PM PST According to market research firm NPD, US video games sales totaled $17.9 billion last year (a record), ...
Video poker stays in the shuffle — for now
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USABy Ellen W. Todd SANFORD — Video poker machines are here to stay — at least until the end of the year. Town councilors voted 5 to 2 Tuesday night to approve ...
Electronic darts aimed at Tower of London
Pacific Daily News - Hagåtña,GU,USAPacific Amusement Inc. owns electronic dart machines and other coin-operated machines like jukeboxes, billiards tables and skill crane machines in different ...
Orlando Science Center's inner view of video games attracts record ...
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAThough visitors can pick up controllers and joysticks in rooms filled with arcade games, screens for Nintendo Wii and even a stage equipped for the game ...
World's biggest video game arcade planned
Courier Mail - AustraliaJAPANESE game company Sega said it will help build a massive game arcade in Dubai in an under-construction shopping mall which purports to be the largest in ...
Video-game concert to rock Orlando
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAVideo Games Live, the immersive concert featuring music and visuals from some of the most beloved video games of all time, is coming to Hard Rock Live in ...
A blast from the past for the arcade
Daily Mail - UKThese days, apparently, coin-operated machines are largely confined to service stations, airports and the British seaside. In places, in other words, ...
An Evening with the King of Kong
IGN - Brisbane,CA,USASurrounded by the bells and whistles of several old-school arcade machines – and enjoying the on-the-house, free-play spirit of the evening – the ...
Video games attract older players
KSN-TV - Wichita,KS,USA23, 2008 – When you think of video games, senior citizens don't usually come to mind. But these days, older generations are turning to this technology as a ...
Namco Bandai Pole Position: Remixi
Lounge - Irvine,CA,USAThough the original Pole Position was one of the most popular arcade games of the early 1980s, this sequel proves the maxim that racing titles never get ...
Golden Tee Video Golf Tournament to Raise Thousands for Charity
MediaSyndicate (press release) - USAGolden Tee, the most successful coin-operated video game in history, enables thousands of players per day to compete in real time contests at thousands of ...
Pinball wizards compete in tournament
New Jersey Herald - Newton,NJ,USAWhile "The Twilight Zone" is his favorite pinball machine, he had to test it out on Saturday, along with the other 18 machines on the floor of Castle Video, ...
Fun Spot is the place to hit if you're a budding wheelman
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAThe indoor segment of Fun Spot features video games, pinball, skee ball and their ilk. The machines upstairs are included in the armband admission price, ...
Heaven in His '80s Arcade
Washington Post - United StatesBy Mike Musgrove Last time I wrote about Peter Hirschberg, a guy with a passion for restoring vintage, '80s-era arcade games, he was toying with the notion ...
Loyola to acquire Gottlieb
Chicago Tribune - United StatesFounded in 1961 from donations from the late Dorothy and David Gottlieb, a pioneer in making pinball machines, the nonprofit hospital realized in recent ...
The man who would beat Kong
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USAHis quarry is the high score set two decades earlier, in 1982, by Broward's own Billy Mitchell, who holds a clutch of records on classic arcade games of the ...
Editorial: Should They Just Leave Tron In The Past?
Gaming Today - Spring,TX,USATron the arcade game was released in 1982 around the same time as the film and was a favorite game of mine at the time. Tron and Discs of Tron were recently ...
Pac Man Fever
MyNorthwest.com - Seattle,USAEver since I was a kid, I wanted my own arcade. I've collected arcade games for about five years now. I've actually added more games since these pictures ...
Gaming company stands poised to make millions on 8-liners in Texas
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA... for the stuffed toys in coin-operated machines at supermarkets. It allows games of chance if the awards are limited to noncash or token cash prizes. ...
Retro Arcade Gaming Fan Heaven Is Worth Infinite Quarters
Gizmodo - USABack in the heyday of the arcade, "Geometry Wars" is what we thought arcade games would look like in 20 years. It's the first game since the '80s that I can ...
Las Vegas museums go tilt and kaboom
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USAThe last time I played a pinball machine, Tastykake was wrapping butterscotch Krimpets in wax paper. But when Tim Arnold, who operates the Pinball Hall of ...
They still play the silver ball
Michigan Daily - Ann Arbor,MI,USALinden said he's considering trading them all in, though, for the newest model on the market - a "Family Guy" machine introduced this year by Stern Pinball, ...
Video Games May Top $62 Billion Worldwide by 2012
PC World - USAMore data futurism for you this morning by way of Global Industry Analysts, who predict the world video games market will exceed $61.9 billion by 2012. ...
Aristocrat Leisure Beats Market Estimate...Just
ABN Newswire (press release) - Sydney,NSW,AustraliaPachinko machines are a cross between a pinball machine and a video slot machine and are produced by Sammy (amongst other companies), a company Aristocrat ...
To have an event listed, send a fax to...
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USAFourth Annual Ohio Pinball and Game Room Festival — 8 am to 9 pm, Emidio Expo Center, 48 E. Bath Road, Cuyahoga Falls. More than 100 machines on free play. ...
Q&A: Nolan Bushnell gets massive
GameSpot - USAGS: So Pong came out, and pretty soon Kool-Aid Man, Journey, Crest and others had their own Atari 2600 and arcade games. It didn't take long for people to ...
Tough competition for video-gaming jobs
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USAIt's a dream shared by millions of twitchy-fingered teens and many of their parents: that hours - or years - spent playing video games could lead to a ...
Founding father
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia1972's Pong was the first arcade game to receive widespread popularity, and later console versions produced by Atari (and countless other manufacturers) ...
Museum piece
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,AustraliaMachines such as Computer Space from 1971, the world's first commercially sold coin-operated game, which even pre-dates Pong, are extremely difficult to ...
Major Entertainment Complex Up For Auction
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USACoin-operated Arcade Video Games, Pinball Machines, Kiddie Rides, Sitdown Drivers, Pool Tables, Redemption, Billiard Equipment, Electronics, Audio/Visual ...
The Rubber Suit From The Depths Of Science Fiction
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USAIn 1992 Bally released a pinball machine based on the movie, and it featured a drive-in movie theme. Seriously, why pinball machines aren't more popular ...
Midway to open casual games portal
MCV - Hertford,Hertfordshire,UK... games Touch Master and Game Party had inspired the company by "returning to its roots" - the Midway brand first rose to prominence in the arcade era. ...
The West Australian - Perth,Western Australia,AustraliaIt saw a new lease on life after merging in 2004 with Sammy Corp, Japan’s top maker of pinball slot machines. Sega in a statement said it hoped the Dubai ...
US video game industry grows 43% over last year
GamePro.com - USAby Blake Snow 01/17/2008 4:13:15 PM PST According to market research firm NPD, US video games sales totaled $17.9 billion last year (a record), ...
Video poker stays in the shuffle — for now
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USABy Ellen W. Todd SANFORD — Video poker machines are here to stay — at least until the end of the year. Town councilors voted 5 to 2 Tuesday night to approve ...
Electronic darts aimed at Tower of London
Pacific Daily News - Hagåtña,GU,USAPacific Amusement Inc. owns electronic dart machines and other coin-operated machines like jukeboxes, billiards tables and skill crane machines in different ...
Orlando Science Center's inner view of video games attracts record ...
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAThough visitors can pick up controllers and joysticks in rooms filled with arcade games, screens for Nintendo Wii and even a stage equipped for the game ...
World's biggest video game arcade planned
Courier Mail - AustraliaJAPANESE game company Sega said it will help build a massive game arcade in Dubai in an under-construction shopping mall which purports to be the largest in ...
Video-game concert to rock Orlando
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAVideo Games Live, the immersive concert featuring music and visuals from some of the most beloved video games of all time, is coming to Hard Rock Live in ...
A blast from the past for the arcade
Daily Mail - UKThese days, apparently, coin-operated machines are largely confined to service stations, airports and the British seaside. In places, in other words, ...
An Evening with the King of Kong
IGN - Brisbane,CA,USASurrounded by the bells and whistles of several old-school arcade machines – and enjoying the on-the-house, free-play spirit of the evening – the ...
Video games attract older players
KSN-TV - Wichita,KS,USA23, 2008 – When you think of video games, senior citizens don't usually come to mind. But these days, older generations are turning to this technology as a ...
Namco Bandai Pole Position: Remixi
Lounge - Irvine,CA,USAThough the original Pole Position was one of the most popular arcade games of the early 1980s, this sequel proves the maxim that racing titles never get ...
Golden Tee Video Golf Tournament to Raise Thousands for Charity
MediaSyndicate (press release) - USAGolden Tee, the most successful coin-operated video game in history, enables thousands of players per day to compete in real time contests at thousands of ...
Pinball wizards compete in tournament
New Jersey Herald - Newton,NJ,USAWhile "The Twilight Zone" is his favorite pinball machine, he had to test it out on Saturday, along with the other 18 machines on the floor of Castle Video, ...
Fun Spot is the place to hit if you're a budding wheelman
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAThe indoor segment of Fun Spot features video games, pinball, skee ball and their ilk. The machines upstairs are included in the armband admission price, ...
Heaven in His '80s Arcade
Washington Post - United StatesBy Mike Musgrove Last time I wrote about Peter Hirschberg, a guy with a passion for restoring vintage, '80s-era arcade games, he was toying with the notion ...
Loyola to acquire Gottlieb
Chicago Tribune - United StatesFounded in 1961 from donations from the late Dorothy and David Gottlieb, a pioneer in making pinball machines, the nonprofit hospital realized in recent ...
The man who would beat Kong
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USAHis quarry is the high score set two decades earlier, in 1982, by Broward's own Billy Mitchell, who holds a clutch of records on classic arcade games of the ...
Editorial: Should They Just Leave Tron In The Past?
Gaming Today - Spring,TX,USATron the arcade game was released in 1982 around the same time as the film and was a favorite game of mine at the time. Tron and Discs of Tron were recently ...
Pac Man Fever
MyNorthwest.com - Seattle,USAEver since I was a kid, I wanted my own arcade. I've collected arcade games for about five years now. I've actually added more games since these pictures ...
Gaming company stands poised to make millions on 8-liners in Texas
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA... for the stuffed toys in coin-operated machines at supermarkets. It allows games of chance if the awards are limited to noncash or token cash prizes. ...
Retro Arcade Gaming Fan Heaven Is Worth Infinite Quarters
Gizmodo - USABack in the heyday of the arcade, "Geometry Wars" is what we thought arcade games would look like in 20 years. It's the first game since the '80s that I can ...
Las Vegas museums go tilt and kaboom
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USAThe last time I played a pinball machine, Tastykake was wrapping butterscotch Krimpets in wax paper. But when Tim Arnold, who operates the Pinball Hall of ...
They still play the silver ball
Michigan Daily - Ann Arbor,MI,USALinden said he's considering trading them all in, though, for the newest model on the market - a "Family Guy" machine introduced this year by Stern Pinball, ...
Video Games May Top $62 Billion Worldwide by 2012
PC World - USAMore data futurism for you this morning by way of Global Industry Analysts, who predict the world video games market will exceed $61.9 billion by 2012. ...
Aristocrat Leisure Beats Market Estimate...Just
ABN Newswire (press release) - Sydney,NSW,AustraliaPachinko machines are a cross between a pinball machine and a video slot machine and are produced by Sammy (amongst other companies), a company Aristocrat ...
To have an event listed, send a fax to...
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USAFourth Annual Ohio Pinball and Game Room Festival — 8 am to 9 pm, Emidio Expo Center, 48 E. Bath Road, Cuyahoga Falls. More than 100 machines on free play. ...
Q&A: Nolan Bushnell gets massive
GameSpot - USAGS: So Pong came out, and pretty soon Kool-Aid Man, Journey, Crest and others had their own Atari 2600 and arcade games. It didn't take long for people to ...
Tough competition for video-gaming jobs
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USAIt's a dream shared by millions of twitchy-fingered teens and many of their parents: that hours - or years - spent playing video games could lead to a ...
Founding father
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia1972's Pong was the first arcade game to receive widespread popularity, and later console versions produced by Atari (and countless other manufacturers) ...
Museum piece
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,AustraliaMachines such as Computer Space from 1971, the world's first commercially sold coin-operated game, which even pre-dates Pong, are extremely difficult to ...
Major Entertainment Complex Up For Auction
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USACoin-operated Arcade Video Games, Pinball Machines, Kiddie Rides, Sitdown Drivers, Pool Tables, Redemption, Billiard Equipment, Electronics, Audio/Visual ...
The Rubber Suit From The Depths Of Science Fiction
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USAIn 1992 Bally released a pinball machine based on the movie, and it featured a drive-in movie theme. Seriously, why pinball machines aren't more popular ...
Midway to open casual games portal
MCV - Hertford,Hertfordshire,UK... games Touch Master and Game Party had inspired the company by "returning to its roots" - the Midway brand first rose to prominence in the arcade era. ...
