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2009-08-02T12:17:00.000-07:00

MULTICADE NOW WITH 465 GAMES

Own a piece of history. One of the best investments you can make for your family

This game has all the classic games from the 80's all the one's you use to play and now the kids are following the classics and continuing to play them and will be well into the future.

Own this brand new machine for Limited Time $2195 and get Free Shipping

This machine retails over $3000. Order now and get Free Shipping ($375value)

Here is what comes with the game
Item Description:
One JAMMA ready arcade system containing 465 vertical ready to play games. Choose from classics like Frogger, Donkey Kong, and Pac-Man to HOT shooters (Shoot em' ups) like 19XX, Strikers 1945 II, and Varth! The game selection menu is extremely simple to understand and navigate. To select a game, simply scroll through the list and press your button to select. At anytime during the active game, the player can return back to main game selection menu by holding in the start button for 3 seconds. This system uses FAST and STABLE Card Flash technology so there is no slow, clunky hard drive to fail! It can support up to 4 players via a remote 3/4P Interfacing card (which connects into another JAMMA cabinet so TWO cabinets are LINKED TOGETHER!).

Features:Universal JAMMA Connector User Friendly Game Selection Screen P4 Motherboard using genuine Intel Processor and Card Flash memory creates a faster/more stable system! User Adjustable Game Options (Game Dip Switch Settings; Number of Lives, Difficulty, etc) Supports 1-4 Player Games (players 3 & 4 via linking - kit included) Supports two-channel audio (Stereo Sound) Supports CGA Standard Arcade Monitor (15kHz) Supports Upright Cabinets (will not flip screen for cocktails) Enable One Game (for a dedicated machine if desired) or All Games Enable/Disable Individual Game Categories From Showing Delete/Undelete Each Game Set Coin/Credit Ratio of All Games with One Setting Supports a Coin Counter

System Specifications:
JAMMA Controller/Interface PCBP4 Motherboard (Intel Celeron4 CPU, CF Memory, 256M DDR)
Game Listing:
1 - Frogger2 - Galaga 3 (rev. C)3 - Galaga (Namco rev. B)4 - Gyruss (Konami)5 - Lady Bug6 - Burger Time (Data East set 1)7 - Centipede (revision 3)8 - Millipede9 - Jr. Pac-Man10 - Space Panic (version E)11 - Super Breakout12 - New Rally X13 - Van-Van Car14 - King & Balloon (US)15 - Mr. Do's Castle (set 1)16 - Juno First17 - Qix (set 1)18 - Ms. Pac-Man19 - Gaplus (rev. D)20 - Arkanoid (World)21 - 1941 - Counter Attack (World)22 - 1942 (set 1)23 - 1942 (set 2)24 - 1942 (set 3)25 - 1943: The Battle of Midway (US)26 - 1943: Midway Kaisen (Japan)27 - 1943 Kai: Midway Kaisen (Japan)28 - 19XX: The War Against Destiny (US 951207)29 - 19XX: The War Against Destiny (Hispanic951218)30 - 19XX: The War Against Destiny (Japan951207)31 - Eight Ball Action (DK conversion)32 - Eight Ball Action (DKJr conversion)33 - '99: The Last War34 - '99: The Last War (alternate)35 - Aero Fighters36 - Aero Fighters (Turbo Force hardware set 1)37 - Aero Fighters (Turbo Force hardware set 2)38 - Air Gallet39 - Air Duel (Japan)40 - Ajax41 - Ajax (Japan)42 - Alphax Z, The (Japan)43 - Sei Senshi Amatelass44 - Soldier Girl Amazon45 - Arbalester46 - Argus47 - Armed Formation48 - Ashura Blaster (Japan)49 - Ashura Blaster (US)50 - Asuka & Asuka (Japan)51 - Asylum (prototype)52 - Avengers (US set 2)53 - Avengers (US set 1)54 - Bagman55 - Bagman (Stern set 1)56 - Bagman (Stern set 2)57 - Armed Police Batrider (Japan, version B)58 - Battle Lane! Vol. 5 (set 2)59 - Battle Lane! Vol. 5 (set 3)60 - Battle Lane! Vol. 5 (set 1)61 - Battle Garegga - Type 2 (Denmark / China)(Tue Apr 2 1996)62 - Battle Garegga (Europe / USA / Japan / Asia)(Sat Feb 3 1996)63 - Battle Garegga (Austria / Hong Kong) (SatMar 2 1996)64 - Battles65 - Battlantis (Japan)66 - Battlantis67 - Battle-Road, The68 - Beastie Feastie69 - Bermuda Triangle (Japan)70 - Blast Off (Japan)71 - Block Block (bootleg)72 - Block Carnival / Thunder & Lightning 273 - Block Block (Japan 910910)74 - Bells & Whistles (Version L)75 - Blue Hawk76 - Blue Hawk (NTC)77 - Blue Print (Jaleco)78 - Blue Print (Midway)79 - Bomb Jack (set 2)80 - Bomb Jack (set 1)81 - Hissatsu Buraiken (Japan)82 - B-Wings (Japan)83 - Battle Wings84 - Caliber 5085 - Cavelon86 - Chinese Hero87 - Chopper I (US set 1)88 - Chopper I (US set 2)89 - Chopper I (US set 3)90 - Circus Charlie (Centuri)91 - "Circus Charlie (Centuri, earlier)"92 - Crazy Kong (set 1)93 - Crazy Kong (set 2)94 - Crazy Kong (Alca bootleg)95 - Crazy Kong (Jeutel bootleg)96 - Crazy Kong (Orca bootleg)97 - Crazy Kong (Scramble hardware)98 - Senjou no Ookami99 - Commando (World)100 - Commando (US)101 - Congo Bongo102 - Contra (US)103 - Contra (Japan)104 - Cosmo Gang the Video (US)105 - Cosmo Gang the Video (Japan)106 - Crazy Cop (Japan)107 - Cybattler108 - Daioh109 - Daisenpu (Japan)110 - Dangar - Ufo Robo (12/1/1986)111 - Dangar - Ufo Robo (9/26/1986)112 - Dangar - Ufo Robo (bootleg)113 - Dangerous Seed (Japan)114 - Darwin 4078 (Japan)115 - DoDonPachi (International)116 - DoDonPachi (Japan)117 - Detana!! Twin Bee (Japan ver. J)118 - "Devil Fish (Galaxian hardware, bootleg?)"119 - Devil Fish120 - Dangun Feveron (Japan)121 - Dig Dug II (New Ver.)122 - Dig Dug II (Old Ver.)123 - Dimahoo (US 000121)124 - Donkey Kong Junior (bootleg?)125 - Donkey Kong Junior (Japan?)126 - Donkey Kong (US set 1)127 - Donkey Kong 3 (US)128 - Donkey Kong 3 (bootleg on Donkey Kong Jr.hardware)129 - Donkey Kong 3 (Japan)130 - Donkey Kong (Japan set 2)131 - Donkey Kong (Japan set 3) (bad dump?)132 - Donkey Kong (Japan set 1)133 - Donkey Kong Junior (US)134 - Donkey Kong Jr. (bootleg)135 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Japan)136 - Donkey Kong Jr. (Moon Cresta hardware)137 - Donkey Kong (US set 2)138 - Dog Fight (Thunderbolt)139 - Dogou Souken140 - Dommy141 - DonPachi (US)142 - Drift Out (Japan)143 - Drive Out144 - Dr. Micro145 - Dragon Spirit (new version)146 - Dragon Spirit (old version)147 - Dyger (Korea set 1)148 - Dyger (Korea set 2)149 - U.N. Defense Force: Earth Joker (Japan)150 - Eight Forces151 - (International Ver 1998 4/22)152 - Evil Stone153 - Exed Exes154 - Exerion155 - Exerion (bootleg)156 - Exerion (Taito)157 - Exerizer (Japan) (bootleg)158 - Explorer159 - Fighting Hawk (World)160 - Flak Attack (Japan)161 - Free Kick (bootleg)162 - Freeze163 - Flying Shark (World)164 - Flying Shark (bootleg)165 - Final Star Force (US)166 - Galaga '88 (Japan)167 - Galaxy Gunners168 - Galivan - Cosmo Police (12/16/1985)169 - Galivan - Cosmo Police (12/11/1985)170 - Galmedes (Japan)171 - Gals Panic (set 1)172 - Gang Busters173 - Gekirindan (Ver 2.3J 1995/09/21)174 - Gemini Wing175 - Gondomania (US)176 - Gorf177 - Gorf (Program 1)178 - Grobda (New Ver.)179 - Gryzor180 - Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer (Ver181 - Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer (Ver182 - 13J)Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer (Ver183 - 13A)Gunbird (World)184 - Gundhara185 - Gun.Smoke (US set 2)186 - Gun.Smoke (World)187 - Gun.Smoke (Japan)188 - Gun.Smoke (US set 1)189 - Guwange (Japan)190 - Guerrilla War (bootleg)191 - Gyrodine192 - Hero in the Castle of Doom (DK conversion)193 - Hero in the Castle of Doom (DK conversionnot encrypted)194 - Hishou Zame (Japan)195 - Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen196 - Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen (bootleg)197 - Hotdog Storm198 - Ikari Warriors (US)199 - Ikari (Japan)200 - Ikari (Japan bootleg)201 - Image Fight (Japan)202 - Jackal (World)203 - Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan)204 - Jumping Jack205 - Jump Bug206 - Jump Bug (bootleg)207 - Jump Coaster208 - Jump Shot209 - Jungler210 - Jungler (Stern)211 - Kageki (US)212 - Kageki (Japan)213 - Kamikaze Cabbie214 - Kangaroo215 - Kicker216 - Kyukyoku Tiger II (Ver 2.1J 1995/11/30)217 - Labyrinth Runner (World Ver. K)218 - Labyrinth Runner (Japan)219 - Last Day, The (set 1)220 - Last Day, The (set 2)221 - Last Duel (US set 1)222 - Koukuu Kihei Monogatari - The Legend ofAir Cavalry (Japan)223 - Lethal Thunder (World)224 - Lightning Fighters (World)225 - Liberation (bootleg)226 - Liberation227 - 13O)Lizard Wizard228 - Last Duel (US set 2)229 - Last Duel (bootleg)230 - Legendary Wings (US set 1)231 - Legendary Wings (US set 2)232 - Ares no Tsubasa (Japan)233 - Mission 660 (US)234 - Mission 660 (bootleg)235 - Mission 660 (Japan)236 - Mahou Daisakusen (Japan)237 - Makyou Senshi (Japan)238 - Mappy (US)239 - Mappy (Japan)240 - Master of Weapon (World)241 - Mazinger Z242 - Mega Force243 - Mercs (World 900302)244 - Senjou no Ookami II (Japan 900302)245 - Mercs (US 900302)246 - Mercs (US 900608)247 - Meta Fox248 - Mikie249 - Mikie (High School Graffiti)250 - Shinnyuushain Tooru-kun251 - Maze of Flott (Japan)252 - Moon Alien Part 2253 - Moon Alien Part 2 (older version)254 - Moon Cresta (Galaxian hardware)255 - Moon Cresta (bootleg set 2)256 - Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu, old rev)257 - Moon Cresta (bootleg set 1)258 - Moon Cresta (Gremlin)259 - Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu)260 - Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu, unencrypted)261 - Moon Quasar262 - Moonwar263 - Moonwar (older)264 - Motos265 - Mr. Do!266 - Mr. Kougar267 - Mr. Kougar (bootleg)268 - Mr. Kougar (earlier)269 - Mister Viking270 - Mister Viking (Japan)271 - MX5000272 - Mysterious Stones - Dr. Kick in Adventure273 - Mysterious Stones - Dr. John's Adventure274 - SD Gundam Neo Battling (Japan)275 - Newpuc2276 - Newpuc2 (set 2)277 - New Puck-X278 - Nitro Ball (US)279 - Naughty Mouse (set 1)280 - Naughty Mouse (set 2)281 - Noboranka (Japan)282 - Omega Fighter283 - Omega Fighter Special284 - Pac-Man (Midway)285 - Pac-Man (Midway, harder)286 - Pandora's Palace287 - Passing Shot (2 Players) (bootleg)288 - Pinball Action (set 2)289 - Pinball Action (set 1)290 - Peggle (Joystick, v1.0)291 - Peggle (Trackball, v1.0)292 - Pengo (set 1 rev c)293 - Pengo (set 2)294 - Pengo (set 2 not encrypted)295 - Pengo (set 3 not encrypted)296 - Pengo (bootleg)297 - Performan (Japan)298 - Performan (US)299 - Phelios (Japan)300 - Phoenix (Amstar)301 - Phoenix (T.P.N.)302 - Phoenix (Centuri)303 - "Phoenix (IRECSA, G.G.I Corp)"304 - Phoenix (Taito)305 - Pinbo (set 1)306 - Pinbo (Strike)307 - Pleiads (bootleg)308 - Pleiads (Centuri)309 - Pleiads (Tehkan)310 - Plus Alpha311 - Pollux (set 1)312 - Pollux (set 2)313 - Pootan314 - Pooyan315 - Pooyan (Stern)316 - Progress317 - "PuckMan (Japan set 1, Probably Bootleg)"318 - PuckMan (Japan set 2)319 - Puzzle Club (Japan prototype)320 - Rafflesia321 - Raiden322 - Rally Bike / Dash Yarou323 - Repulse324 - Return of the Invaders (bootleg set 1)325 - Return of the Invaders (bootleg set 2)326 - Road Fighter (set 1)327 - Road Fighter (set 2)328 - R-Shark329 - Run Deep330 - Rush & Crash (Japan)331 - Ryu Jin (Japan)332 - Strikers 1945333 - Strikers 1945 II334 - "Strikers 1945 (Japan, unprotected)"335 - Samurai Aces (World)336 - Savage Bees337 - Super Bagman338 - Super Bagman (Stern)339 - Super Basketball (version G)340 - Super Basketball (version E)341 - Super Basketball (not encrypted)342 - Super Bike (DK conversion)343 - Super Cobra344 - Super Cobra (bootleg)345 - Super Cobra (Stern)346 - Super Cobra (Sega)347 - Scramble (Galaxian hardware)348 - Scramble349 - Scramble (Stern)350 - SAR - Search And Rescue (World)351 - SAR - Search And Rescue (US)352 - Shao-Lin's Road353 - Shippu Mahou Daisakusen (Japan)354 - Space Invasion (Europe)355 - Space Invasion (bootleg)356 - Sky Adventure (Japan)357 - Sky Adventure (World)358 - Sky Adventure (US)359 - Sky Alert360 - Sky Army361 - Sky Base362 - Sky Bumper363 - Sky Fox364 - Sky Shark (US)365 - Sky Smasher366 - Sky Soldiers (US)367 - Slap Fight (Japan bootleg)368 - Slap Fight (English bootleg)369 - Sengoku Ace (Japan)370 - Sonic Wings (Japan)371 - Son of Phoenix372 - Space Pilot373 - Speed Coin (prototype)374 - Speed Ball375 - Spy Hunter376 - Super Real Darwin (World)377 - Super Real Darwin (Japan)378 - S.R.D. Mission379 - Speed Rumbler, The (set 1)380 - Speed Rumbler, The (set 2)381 - Star Force382 - Star Force (encrypted)383 - Strike Gunner S.T.G384 - SWAT385 - Super Xevious386 - Tank Battalion387 - Tank Busters388 - Thunder Dragon389 - Thunder Dragon 2390 - Thunder Dragon (Bootleg)391 - Terra Cresta (YM2203)392 - Terra Cresta (YM3526 set 2)393 - Terra Cresta (YM3526 set 1)394 - "Deep, The (Japan)"395 - "Hustler, The (Japan version M)"396 - Thunder Blaster (Japan)397 - Tiger Heli (US)398 - Tiger Heli (bootleg set 1)399 - Tiger Heli (bootleg set 2)400 - Tiger Heli (Japan set 2)401 - Time Pilot402 - Time Pilot (Centuri)403 - "Time Scanner (set 1, System 16A, FD1089B317-0024)"404 - "Time Scanner (set 2, System 16B)"405 - Time Soldiers (US Rev 1)406 - Time Soldiers (US Rev 3)407 - Thundercade / Twin Formation408 - Tokusyu Butai U.A.G. (Japan)409 - Tower of Druaga (New Ver.)410 - Tower of Druaga (Old Ver.)411 - Tokio / Scramble Formation (bootleg)412 - Toki no Senshi - Chrono Soldier413 - Top Gunner (bootleg)414 - Top Gunner (US)415 - Time Pilot '84 (set 1)416 - Time Pilot '84 (set 2)417 - Trick Trap (World?)418 - Trigon (Japan)419 - Triple Punch420 - Tri-Pool (Casino Tech)421 - Tri-Pool (Costal Games)422 - Tri-Sports423 - Truxton / Tatsujin424 - Truxton II / Tatsujin II / Tatsujin Oh (Japan)425 - Turbo426 - Turbo (encrypted set 1)427 - Turbo (encrypted set 2)428 - Turbo Force429 - Tutankham430 - Tutankham (Stern)431 - TwinBee432 - Twin Cobra (World)433 - Twin Cobra (US)434 - Twin Eagle - Revenge Joe's Brother435 - Twin Hawk (World)436 - Twin Hawk (US)437 - Typhoon438 - Varth - Operation Thunderstorm (Japan920714)439 - Varth - Operation Thunderstorm (US 920612)440 - Vasara441 - Victory Road442 - Vulgus (set 1)443 - Vulgus (set 2)444 - Vulgus (Japan?)445 - Wanted446 - Wiz447 - Wiz (Taito)448 - Water Match449 - Wonder Planet (Japan)450 - World Wars (World)451 - War of Aero - Project MEIOU452 - Xevios453 - Xevious (Namco)454 - Xevious (Atari set 1)455 - Xevious (Atari set 2)456 - XX Mission457 - Yankee DO!458 - Youjyuden (Japan)459 - Youma Ninpou Chou (Japan)460 - Zaviga461 - Zaviga (Japan)462 - Zig Zag (Galaxian hardware, set 1)463 - Zig Zag (Galaxian hardware, set 2)464 - Zing Zing Zip465 - Zoar

ORDERING INFO:

Email Me that you want to order machine. I will then send you an invoice from Paypal with the amount to be paid $2195 includes shipping. If you have a Paypal account already you know what to do. If not the email and invoice I send you will tell you how to open account using your credit card or bank account. Your Paypal account will be your email address and I will get ship to info from there once I receive payment. Machine will ship within 3 days of recieving full payment.

2009-07-09T19:38:00.001-07:00

2009-05-19T11:48:00.000-07:00

Daily Updates on deals and other Stuff we may tweet about

2009-05-17T16:31:00.001-07:00

Dear Friends,
It's been some time since we contacted you. Hopefully your 2009 is moving in the right direction for you and as always wishing you the best that can be.

Wanted to let our customers in on some great deals we have right now. One of our most popular arcade games the MULTICADE with 60 of the all time hottest classic games in one beautiful cabinet is now available in it's original cocktail version. This cocktail version comes in walnut or black cabinet. This game sells for $2995 and we are offering it this week to our customers for only $2195 and FREE SHIPPING ($375 value). These are commercial quality coin operated games. If you want to see list of the 60 games email me We do still have some stand up versions left for $1995.

Email me any Questions you may have

We also are having a great sale on our refurbished arcade games and have tons we need to get rid of and make room for more coming in. Driving games from $1495, Gun Games from $1295, Golden T Golf Games from $1295, Mega Touch Bartop Touchscreen Games from $1295, Pinball Machines from $1895, Slot Machines from $995, Redemption Games from $1395, Pool Tables from $1695, and Much More.

Tell me what your looking for and I will get you the best price I can

Shipping prices have come down a bit with the gas prices so we can probably get you that new game you've been waiting for in a price budget you can afford.

Give me your zipcode and item you want and I can get you that shipping quote

Our party season is upon us. If your in the Florida area we are here to supply you all your games for your next event and make it a huge success. Company parties, Graduations, Summer Parties, Corporate Picnics, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Weddings, Give us a call and see what we can do for you to bring lots of fun to your next event.

We are always taking trade in's. So your in the market for a new game for your rec room, don't have the room or the budget? Let us know what you want and what you want to trade for. We will accommodate you the best we can to make a deal.

Call us anytime you need anything 1-800-966-9873 ext 209

2009-05-14T07:24:00.000-07:00

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2009-05-12T14:06:00.000-07:00

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2009-03-31T13:58:00.000-07:00

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2009-02-01T14:49:00.000-08:00

New 2009 Multicade Now with 60 Games

Excuse the quality of the picture, the machine is beautiful, high quality in every way. Brand New with 60 of the most popular classic games of the 80's. Bring back all those childhood memories. Believe it or not your kids today will love these games too. No game room should be without one. These are commercial coin operated machines. These retail from $3195 to $3895 in most retailers. We are offering this machine today for $2995 the latest 2009 Model and FREE SHIPPING ($350+ Savings). Pay by Check, Cash or Bankwire and get another 10% Discount bringing the cost of this game to $2695.50 Delivered. You may pay by credit card via Paypal but will not receive the 10% discount.

ORDER YOURS TODAY AND BE PLAYING IT NEXT WEEKEND
CALL 1-800-966-9873 EXT 209

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2008-12-08T17:07:00.000-08:00

Special Holiday Deals Just for You!

We are offering HUGE SAVINGS right now. Yes we all know the economy is bad. We are seeing the down turn just like everyone else. Our holiday sales look not to be going to good as most retailers. So this is your chance! If you ever wanted a great item for your family game room don't pass this sale up. Right now as we speak we are selling many of our most popular items for just 5% over cost. Yes 5% over cost, savings you hundreds of dollars, even thousands of dollars if outfitting your entire game room. More Savings- Pay now with Paypal or pay by Check/Cash/Bankwire and Save another 2% more. We have pulled out all stops to save you money.

Pinball Machines from $1299
Refurbished Pinball Machines, dramatic savings, treat yourself, you deserve it, and don't miss out. Unheard of Prices from $1299.
Ready to ship in time for the holidays. Great Shipping Discounts too. Buy 2 and second one ships free! New Stern Pinballs save $500 Now!

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Bubbler Jukebox $3499
Digital Bubbler Jukebox, dramatic savings, Lets you load 600 of your favorite CD's onto the 250 Gigabyte hard drive with no loss of sound quality. There is an updated online database with over 1.6 million song titles that will make cataloging your music titles a snap.
Only $3499 this week!
Saving You Over $700

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Slot Machines $799
Slot Machines right from the Casino Floor to your front door. Fully refurbished. Quit throwing your money into someone elses machine. Save money and play at home. Many great titles ready to ship today!
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Great Pinball Machines Fully Refurbished and Ready to Ship in Time For the Holidays. HUGE SAVINGS on these below saving you up $1500 off normal retail pricing!

Monday Night Football $2199 Pool Sharks $1799 Simpsons Party Pinball $3799
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All Machines Fully Refurbished, 100% Working, Comes with our 90 Day Parts Warranty

We only have one of each title so first come first serve

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2008-08-21T13:01:00.002-07:00

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TCPalm - West Palm Beach,FL,USAAnd it’s no clearer now, officials said Wednesday, with laws defining games of chance as gambling but allowing games of skill. “We’re still talking about ...
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San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USAEB Play an array of pinball machines. Benefiting the Boys and Girls Clubs of Sacramento. 2-10 pm Fri., 10 am-10 pm Sat., 10 am-4 pm Sun. $5-$20. ...
Sega hunts direct agency for CRM account
PrecisionMarketing - London,England,UKSega was founded in 1940 as Standard Games in Honolulu, Hawaii, to provide coin-operated amusements for US servicemen on military bases. ...
Japan's arcade industry slumps as Wii takes off
Reuters - USABy Edwina Gibbs TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese superhero Ultraman vanquishes an evil enemy during a live performance at a Tokyo games arcade. ...
Route 28 work will force a memorabilia seller to leave
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USABy Tony LaRussa The grimy lighted sign at the entrance of the Millvale Industrial Park along Route 28 perpetually announces a sale on pinball machines and ...
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
GameIndustry.com - Washington,DC,USA... or just trying to keep the ball from falling between the paddles, everyone finds a draw to the pinball machines of this world, and every now and again, ...
Climb Into the Cockpit of Tomorrow's Slot Machine
Wired News - USAI slide over to the company's other offering, a pinball machine that wagers credits every time the ball hits a bumper. I feel oddly relaxed, and I suddenly ...
Costly change in sight
Boston Herald - United StatesBy Jay Fitzgerald Local operators of vending machines, jukeboxes, pinball games and ATMs could be forced to spend millions of dollars due to an appeals ...
Capcom: Console Expansion, Gas Prices Hurting Arcade Biz
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USA... fewer visitors to shopping mall arcades, while the popularity of card-dispenser kids' games has begun to decline, further harming arcade operations. ...
Life of award recipient is all fun and games
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USAWhalen, an octogenarian, is better known as "Lucky" Leo, the former owner of Lucky Leo's Arcade and numerous stands, considered a staple along that ...
Direct From SF: San Francisco’s Best Arcade Isn’t In San Francisco
MTV.com - USAThe pinball machines only cost a quarter, though, so my lack of skills is moot. Outside of an area deemed “classics,” even though games like “Tetris” and ...
Take A Look At Sega Rally 3
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USA(We did keep a handful of machines which has now dwindled down to just a "Capt. Fantastic" pinball highlighting Elton John and my jewel the Missile Command ...
Classic Arcade Tournament Draws Video Game Fans
NHPR - Concord,NH,USAVideo game enthusiasts are going head-to-head in the summer resort town of Weirs Beach this weekend. They’ve gathered for the 10th annual International ...
Laughing Sal presides over new Playland museum
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USAVisitors will be able to play 80-year-old pinball machines, watch a century-old penny arcade called "Knotty Peek," and see authentic side-show attractions ...
Not too late: Pinball wizards wanted
SunJournal.com (subscription) - Lewiston,ME,USAIt's a chance to socialize, snack on some barbecue and - once hands are thoroughly washed - check out 40 or so pinball machines. "You're going to see some ...
Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball
PopMatters - Chicago,IL,USAMany pinball machines were just too bulky and expensive to warrant continued investment, and as a result, many video arcades stopped purchasing as many ...
a cupful of quarters
Wire - Portsmouth,NH,USATwin Galaxies began as an arcade in a small Iowa town and has grown into the foremost internationally recognized arbiter of pinball and arcade game ...
Video arcades' last gasp
Chicago Tribune - United StatesMost days, most hours, especially during the off-season, she's alone with this cacophony of ancient coin-operated arcade games—beeping and wheezing and ...
Where to drop your quarters
Chicago Tribune - United StatesTwenty-five years ago, at the height of the golden age of the coin-operated video game, when Donkey Kong walked the Earth, more than 80000 convenience ...
The big shakedown: Seattle's legacy of crooked cops
Crosscut - Seattle,WA,USA... that held the licenses for some 1500 local pinball machines and pool tables, delivering money to the home of King County Prosecutor Charles O. Carroll. ...
Leonardo DiCaprio is Nolan Bushnell in Atari/
FILM - Natick,MA,USABushnell was an engineering student who went from fixing broken pinball machines to launching the Atari Corporation in 1972 (a reference to a check-like ...
Gamers geared up for NW Pinball Show at Seattle Center
MyNorthwest.com - Seattle,USABy JIM VALLEY It's the Northwest Pinball Show at Seattle Center. Promoter Bret Fritch says you can play machines from 1950s classics to the brand new ...
Rediscovering the classic American game of pinball
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USASchiess has more than 300 pinball machines in his possession, but due to space limitations, only a few dozen are actually on display. ...
BUSINESS: Metro Amusements carries on Shroyer's grandson to take ...
MyWebTimes.com - Ottawa,IL,USASlowly, computer games and trivia games began to emerge. Then along came "Pong," and the newest chapter of the coin-op history began to be written. ...
We Went: Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show
Seattlest - Seattle,USAOne of the highlights of this past weekend was heading down to the Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show, held at Seattle Center. For an entrance fee, ...
New Exhibit Room Open at NBAM
Alameda Sun - Alameda,CA,USA... 1930s and giant pinball backglass murals now complement the existing art and pinball gallery’s mix of pinball-related art and parts of pinball machines ...
Super-Hero Costumes and more on auction in Los Angeles
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USAAdditionally, hundreds of movie-themed pinball machines and arcade games including PacMan, Ms. PacMan, Galaga, The Simpson's, Jurassic Park, and many, ...
In Lowell General's $1.6M Video Game
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USAHe is at least six feet away from the patient, hunched over what looks like an arcade video-game console. His feet work pedals beneath him, ...
The classroom arcade
World Magazine - Asheville,NC,USABut the Federation of American Scientists has a plan to revolutionize science education–and it hinges on introducing video games to the classroom. ...
Dads that Play Less, Enjoy More
Wired News - USASuper Mario World, Rainbow Islands, Bubble Bobble, Double Dragon and The Adams Family pinball machine are almost a full list. ...
Businessman Zollie Kelman dies at 82
KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USAKelman established American Music Co., which leased jukeboxes, pinball machines and other amusement games to bars. The company later added video gaming ...
Game rooms bring the fun home
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle - Clarksville,TN,USABy CHRIS KRIDLER • Florida Today • June 26, 2008 If the purported "staycation" becomes the hot thing this summer, a home game room might be a perfect place ...
PETA crabby over lobsters
Denver Daily News - Denver,CO,USABut the animal rights organization says McCann’s predicament is far less intense than the live lobsters trapped in his coin-operated Lobster Zone claw game. ...
Pinball wizard
GoErie.com - Erie,PA,USAFor the 31-year-old Erie-based video editor and producer, pinball machines represent the best of the 1980s and 1990s and growing up in Harborcreek Township. ...
The stories may be strange, but they're true
ABC12.com - Flint,MI,USAThe Maryland man has restored six pinball machines, which now are part of a family arcade in his basement. He has more waiting to be fixed. ...
Pinball never died in this Las Vegas arcade
Los Angeles Times - CA,USABy Ashley Powers, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Tim Quintana hunches over a pinball machine and stares down Spider-Man's archenemies: Kingpin, ...
1984 Arcade re-creates staple of ’80s entertainment
Joplin Globe - Joplin,MO,USAPlayers don’t need a roll of quarters to play the games, however. All of them are set for free play. The arcade is run by seven friends who have had a ...

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2008-05-21T06:43:00.000-07:00

Anti-Stress Video Game
ScienCentral News - New York,NY,USAA simple video game has been shown to reduce stress. As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers at McGill University also found that playing the
Video Games Live to Play 40+ Shows in 2008
1UP.com - New York,NY,USABy Philip Kollar, 01/17/2008 The Video Games Live series of concerts have gained a lot of buzz in the gaming community as one of the most exciting ways to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
Video game competition draws a crowd to save the universe
TriCities.com - Johnson City,TN,USAThey were lined up here at 8 am" "The contestants don’t play football; they play video games," she added. "They need somewhere to go to be in competition ...
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 ...
Illegal video poker operation busted
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USASixteen video poker machines seized from four shops. "We figure they were making about $2000 a day profit," said Capt. James Craven with the Iredell County ...
New book Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008 will please ...Toronto Star - Ontario, CanadaMs. Pac-Man from Namco's 1982 coin-operated game of the same name. This bit of trivia, and hundreds of other video game-related facts and figures, ...
Want to play Keno?
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USAOn the other hand, businesses that operate jukeboxes, video games, coin-operated dartboards and pool tables in bars are predicting that the new game will ...
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 ...
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 ...
Namco Blames Wii for Arcade Closures
Slashdot - USAPoorly maintained and/or abused machines as well. I usually spent more of my arcade quarters on pinball than vid by Joe Snipe (224958) They did when the ...
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. ...
The Crazy Games Kids Played In The 1960s…
Gaming Today - Spring,TX,USAIt seems like a lot of people these days are trying to claim that video games are bad for kids and also bad for the adults that play them. ...
Becoming a pinball wizard
amNewYork - New York,USAWhat are some of the most challenging machines to play on? Family Guy, Flash Gordon, Dirty Harry, The Shadow. Just to name a few. ...
Overturned Ohio gambling law has interesting history
Mansfield News Journal - Mansfield,OH,USA... aspects of his earlier bingo bill and included a definition of illegal "schemes of chance" that made the owners of coin-operated bar games nervous. ...
Arcade Games Make A Comeback
Forbes - NY,USA... GameGallery Amusements has been a major supplier of coin-op machines, including pinball, jukeboxes and of course videogame arcade machines to commercial businesses. ...
Senate panel to consider new rules for adult arcades
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USAThere are other arcade-related concerns, too: A new kind of electronic game room called a sweepstakes arcade, or Internet arcade, began proliferating ...
Parade of Homes features 21000-square-foot dwelling
St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA... two-lane bowling alley and arcade that featured black lights and disco lights and housed about 20 pinball machines, part of the homeowner's collection. ...
UK veteran marks 40 years in business
InterGame - Oldham,England,UK"Harry Dransfield, who had 51 per cent of Carfield at the time, was still buying machines from me even though they were the machines involved in the ...
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, ...
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 ...
The kid inside the engineer knows a thing or two
EDN.com - Newton,MA,USAIn my case, I was fascinated by pinball machines and I wanted to buy broken machines at auctions and fix them up. Sadly though, real engineering projects ...
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USALucky Ju Ju Pinball Art Gallery -- Art exhibits. "Proverbial Amusements": Paintings by Lena Reynosa, through March 5. "Paintings and Prints" by Gary
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. ...
'Home paradise'
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USAIf you're thinking about adding a game room to your home, there are plenty of factors to consider -- from calculating how much space you need to deciding ...
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) ...
Driver's Seat Pinball people
Tampa Bay Newspapers - Seminole,FL,USABy BOB DRIVER, columnist Remember the old-time pinball machines? You don’t see many of them any more. Fifty or 60 years ago, armed with a pocketful of ...
Al Alcorn - The Father of Gaming
PALGN - AustraliaI mean, for example, when we started the company we had coin operated games, and after about a year of that, it got kind of boring. ...
AUS: Game On Exhibition March 6 - July 13th
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAGame On tracks the development of videogames from the first computer game to arcade-era hits and the very latest from today's billion dollar industry. ...
The ultimate self-made man
The Observer - UKNot bad going for somebody who started out selling fizzy drinks door-to-door and renting out pinball machines to barbers Warren Buffett, the newly anointed ...
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
IGN - Brisbane,CA,USABack in the day Williams was responsible for many of the pinball machines that wound up in pizza parlors, 7-Elevens, bowling alleys, bars, and any of the ...
Grant Johnstone provides fun galore with his arcade game collection
West Linn Tidings - OR,USAHe cruises the Internet for information on where to buy and how to repair pinball machines. He has formed friendships with other arcade aficionados. ...
Unedited: Pinball wizard
Columbus Alive - Columbus,OH,USAThey're becoming real popular lately. You mentioned that Stern Pinball Inc., is the only company making machines. That seems kind of sad. Yeah, it is. ...
Invasion of the classics
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA... to compete in the Midwest Pinball Championship, but that doesn't mean you can't step up to one of the 75 or so pinball machines available at the Classic ...
DOUG ELFMAN: Manly manipulations
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USAGame dorks will be checking out video games, football-tossing games, pool tables and "Dance Dance Revolution"-style arcade games during the Amusement ...
For arcade-style shoot-'em-ups, join 'The Club'
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USAIn old-fashioned, arcade-style games, scores are everything. Players must manage living, hurrying, discovering and learning subtle differences of maps and ...
The Greatest Science Fiction Pinball Machines Of All Time
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USAThere have been tons of scifi pinball machines, with some amazingly garish artwork. Besides all of the Star Trek, Star Wars, and other licensed games, ...
Oconomowoc Welcomes 7th Annual Midewst Gaming Classic
MyFox Milwaukee - Milwaukee,WI,USA"Pinball games, console machines, video games, arcade uprights, computers, pretty much anything you want," said organizer Dan Loosen. ...
One planet, under pinball
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USAMore than 60 years after the introduction of the flipper, pinball is in trouble. A decade ago there were maybe 2.5 million pinball machines in commercial ...
More than 70 percent of Americans playing video games
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USABy Mike Antonucci A report today from the NPD Group, a New York-based market research firm, reveals that 72 percent of the US population played video games ...
Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball
New York Press - New York,NY,USAStern Pinball still makes pinball machines. They’re doing OK. With pinball, you can’t make a billion copies of software the way you can with video. ...
Pinball Hall of Fame rolls exactly like the classic game
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USARoger Sharpe saved pinball. It's hard to believe now, but pinball machines used to be illegal in cities around the country, from New York to California and ...
Mathematician a pinball wizard
Enterprise News - Brockton,MA,USAIn front of him are three pinball machines he’s won. Another one is on the way, one of the prizes in the International Flipper Pinball Association’s first ...
maniaTV's Gaming Show Arcade Launches New Season
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USAArcade gets viewers up-to-date on cutting edge video games, the machines that power them and the gamers that rule them. The show consists of four segments ...
Game Room Show draws pinball enthusiasts
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA... where a variety of game room-type units, including pinball and slot machines, foosball tables and arcade video games were on display. ...
Grey Flannel's May 14 auction features coin ops, amusements from ...
News-antique.com (press release) - Garden City,NY,USALater, the owners added concessions and a games arcade.” In 1962, amusements and machines from Playland were sent to the Seattle World’s Fair, ...
It's 1980, And You're Commanding A Tank On Another Planet
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USABattlezone incorporated many new design elements that hadn't been seen in coin-operated games before, like a persicope-like viewer and realistic (for the ...
Collection of Tacoma antiques dealer Steve Craig goes up for auction
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USAPinball machines, a shuffleboard game, juke boxes, a complete soda fountain, tiki bar, pornography of a sort not spoken of in family newspapers, ...
Why Pong scored so highly for Atari
Guardian - UK"At that time, coin-operated games were dominated by pinball machines that had sometimes lurid graphics or driving machines that required skills that ...
Kalamazoo fairground hosts competition for pinball wizards
MLive.com - MI,USAThe event continues Saturday from 9 am through 6 pm and includes competitions and an auction of pinball machines. But for Joshua, pinball is more than a ...
Become a pinball wizard again
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USABy dirk lammers of AP Purists who play the silver ball might say pinball should be enjoyed on full-sized machines, but few of us have the money or den space ...
Pinball wizard edes’ Top Five
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USAToday, Stern, currently the country’s only major pinball manufacturer, uses digital computer technology to control dozens of moving parts. ...
Pinball Wizardry
Popular Science - New York,NY,USAFortunately, the developers have scrupulously re-created some of the best pinball machines ever made. There’s Gorgar (1979), the first talking pinball ...
Pinball sales wizards leaving the business
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USAAll told, the Biechlers estimate they've sold as many as 5000 coin-operated games. But Paul can't completely tear himself away from the business, ...
For a Survivor in the Pinball Industry, the Game Isn’t Over
New York Times - United StatesBut this place, Stern Pinball Inc., is the last of its kind in the world. A range of companies once mass produced pinball machines, especially in the ...
A Look Inside the Last Pinball Factory in the World
Gizmodo.com - USADid you know that there's only one manufacturer of pinball machines left in the world? That sole survivor of the pinball age is Stern Pinball, based outside ...
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Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA"It had the biggest collection of pinball machines I'd ever seen in my life," Derrick Stamos said. In the 1980s, the cars gave way to the golden age of ...
Classic pinball games go digital
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA"Pinball Hall of Fame" features a virtual arcade, letting players browse the tables before settling in to play. AP photo The "Funhouse" title in the ...
Pinball would-be wizard's lament
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USAI hadn't been playing much pinball in those days, but I was a kid in a candy store in this place. Scores of pinball machines, and all of 'em set up for free ...
For the ultimate pinball wizard, math skills help his winning strategy
Boston Globe - United StatesArcades have been going out of business, and only one company, Chicago-based Stern Pinball, still makes pinball machines. While pinball video games are ...
'King of Pinball' sees more than flashing lights
Los Angeles Times - CA,USAYou might say he's to pinball what Kobe Bryant is to the Lakers, although shorter and not as rich. I haven't thought about pinball machines in a good many ...
2008 Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show June 6-8
Eastside Business Journal - Bellevue,Washington,USAThe event will feature pinball machines from the last 50 years setup for free play with paid admission. Competitive players will compete in the ...
As went Nixon and disco, so goes pinball
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USABut this place, Stern Pinball Inc., is the last of its kind in the world. A range of companies once mass-produced pinball machines, especially in the ...
Meet the pinball wizards of art
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USAIt's a warehouse that also houses a huge stash of more than 300 vintage pinball machines, so I'm not supposed to tell you where it is, which is not a ...
Pinball wizard
SunJournal.com (subscription) - Lewiston,ME,USA"All his stuff" is Edes' collection: more than 70 classic and newer pinball machines. And turning on even a few of them at the same time produces a ...
Bizarre Japanese Arcade Game: Live Lobster Catcher
Weird Asia News - San Mateo,CA,USARemember those coin-operated “claw” games in the 80’s, where you could snag some fuzzy dice if you moved the robot hand with enough skill? ...
Q&A: Greg Maletic On 'Tilt: The Battle To Save Pinball'
Gamasutra - San Francisco,CA,USAIs there room for more niche pinball companies like Stern? I'm not an expert in the business side of things, but I'd say there might be room for one more ...
From Holy Water to Firewood - The History of the Vending Machine
Inventorspot - USAProving that one invention can create another, this new kind of mechanical motion became the basis for slot machines and pinball. ...
Pinball moves into video games
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USABy DIRK LAMMERS AP Purists who play the silver ball might say pinball should be enjoyed on full-sized machines, but few of us have the money or den space to ...
Long-time Lisle arcade company closing its doors
Sun Publications Chicago - Chicago,IL,USADuring the first week of April, the couple launched their going-out-of-business sale, where folks could buy anything from parts to pinball machines at ...
Japan's Sega Sammy swings into loss as video game unit struggles ...
Hemscott - London,UKSega Sammy is also the holding company of Sammy, maker of pachinko machines, which are similar to pinball machines. The company said visits to its game ...
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InterGame - Oldham,England,UKReporter Jeff Flock interviewed Gary Stern and discussed the game, as well as the history and future of pinball, while he stood next to a row of Stern’s ...

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Monday April 28, 2008
Inside The Last Pinball Factory

As the gaming world eagerly awaits the latest entry into the mega-popular and highly controversial Grand Theft Auto series, The New York Times has taken a step back in time with a trip to Melrose Park, Ill, where Stern Pinball continues to operate a 40,000-foot pinball warehouse--the last of its kind.
It's a bittersweet piece about the death rattle of an industry, featuring quotes that can't help but make you feel for those profiled, such as, "There are a lot of things I look at and scratch my head. Why are people playing games on their cellphones while they write e-mail? I don't get it." That one's from Tim Arnold, a former arcade owner, who adds, "The thing that's killing pinball is not that people don't like it. It's that there's nowhere to play it." But the factory's owner, Gary Stern, who inherited the family business from his father Samuel, posits that despite its tough times, pinball isn't going anywhere.

2008-03-10T13:16:00.000-07:00

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. ...

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2008-01-16T07:45:00.000-08:00

MTV Video Game Characters Get Tattooed by Brooklyn Heights Artist
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USAA cartoon rendering of a streetlamp with sneakers hanging from it, it is the exact same design that millions of video-game enthusiasts from around the world ...
Making Heads and Tails of Coin-Op Collecting
TheStreet.com - USACoin-operated machine collectors are people who love the sound of an old-time pinball machine, who hear music in the clicking gears of a vintage candy ...
Sedona Chamber of Commerce announces its newly elected officials ...
Sedona.biz - Sedona,AZ,USAAfter 13 years with IBM he left to start a chain of retail stores in the Los Angeles area called GAMES This chain of 6 stores sold pinball machines,
Top 10 video games of 2007
Times of India - IndiaMicrosoft's "Halo 3" has been dominating video game headlines since the past few months. With the sales said to be touching $170 million on the opening day
Children's homes experience festivity
Cayman Net News - grand cayman,Cayman IslandsThen it was onto playing a few arcade games. Air hockey and car racing games proved to be the popular ones. While some enjoyed the arcade games others took ...
Susan's Top Ten Favorite Games of 2007
Wired Blogs - USAThe original Pac-Man is just the starting point for this Live Arcade game, which turns the familiar mazes into neon-drenched, pulsing labyrinths that shift ...
What happened to all those cash-paying video games that were ...
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USATed Strickland and Attorney General Marc Dann announced that the games -- some of which look and play like slot machines, right down to their sizable cash ...
Perfect Job? Getting Paid To Play Video Games
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USAGetting Paid To Play Video Games Of course, somebody has to try out every level and game-breaking possibility on the latest and greatest titles. ...
Video Poker Arrests Made
Dunn Daily Record - Dunn,NC,USAThe charges stem from a joint investigation by the Sheriff's Office and State Bureau of Investigation in which 13 video poker machines were seized Nov. ...
Video-game developer follows his passions
Edmonton Journal - Edmonton,Alberta,CanadaMeet Scott McGillivray, a 30-year-old software developer in the red-hot video-game industry. McGillivray works for Electronic Arts Inc.'s Black Box studio ...
Army using video game as recruiting tool
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USAThat's what's happening today in Chandler, where a local Army recruiting office is sponsoring a video-game tournament that is expected to draw more than 100 ...
Video game chair makers get off to a shaky start
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USAIt was then that Florez, now 40, talked with his cousin and came up with a video game chair that would vibrate during a game. Along with his friend Jamie ...
Venture revives video games of the '80s
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USADream Arcades, which he co-owns with his wife, Michelle, manufactures and sells big, bulky arcade games, primarily those crammed with the hottest games of ...
Video gaming has seen little to rival arcade boom of 1980s
Burlington Hawk Eye - IA, United StatesThere was no question in Rowan's mind that business was about to take a dramatic shift from pinball machines, foosball tables and bumper pool. ...
Once-ubiquitous pay phones may be headed for extinction
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USALook around now, because in a few more years the coin-operated pay phone may be just a jangling memory in many places, a victim of the ubiquitous cell phone ...
Patrons hail adult arcade, others question it
Gainesville Sun - Gainesville,FL,USARocky Bork, left, and Roseann Koch play slot machine-style arcade games at Treasure Box Arcade on NE 16th Avenue on Friday. "We were in the area on the way ...
Pac Man still has punch
Toronto Star - Ontario, CanadaHere is the problem with nostalgic collections of arcade games from the 1980s. Arcade games from the 1980s are not rare. They are available. They are easy.
Video game classics score Emmy honors at CES
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USAA group of video game giants who changed the way people play in the 80s, 90s and 2000s were honored with technology and engineering Emmy Awards during a ...
2008 Increase in Video Game Tester Jobs Not an Excuse for Teens to ...
PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna,BulgariaThe new year will see a massive increase in demand for video game testers -- but don't start encouraging your teen to play more video games just yet. ...
PLUGGED IN
Barron's - USA... top manager for arcade-game giant Midway Games (MWY). Schilling is as intense about building a company as he is about nipping the corner with his curve. ...
Two Illegal Gambling Operations Busted in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Casino Gambling Web - Tampa,FL,USAVideo Poker machines are becoming increasingly popular in local bars around the United States. The problem is that many of the places that are paying out ...
Downtown Bristol Tennessee building is being renovated for ...
TriCities.com - Johnson City,TN,USA... owner of Lark Amusement Service/Belitz Electronic Service. Today, he uses the long, narrow building next to door to repair jukeboxes and pinball machines.
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 ...
• Shelti consolidates dart machine business to Bay City
MLive.com, MI - Dec 17, 2007While it won't result in any new hirings for now, it will consolidate the company's manufacture of pool and foosball tables, air hockey tables and ...
Brunswick's Earnings Call Scheduled
FOX News - Jan 7, 2008... equipment and consumer products; Brunswick billiards tables; and Dynamo, Tornado and Valley pool tables, Air Hockey and foosball tables. ...
WPT Prize Pool Tops Five Million
Launchpoker.com, UK - Jan 9, 2008The new poker room at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa also drew rave reviews from those sitting at the 85 tables found inside.

2007-12-21T06:05:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays from The Game Gallery

Want to Thank all our customers again for helping make

this year another success. We wish you only the best for you

and your family in the coming New Year.

2007-12-19T12:58:00.000-08:00

Quarter King of Winona: Owner of coin-activated entertainment ...
Winona Daily News - Winona,MN,USAWhile he's seen many changes within the world of coin-operated entertainment, Williamson sees its future as strong. "When one thing seems to fade, ...
Video game 'Flipper Critters' runs out of steam
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USABy Scott Iwasaki GAME PLAY: Pinball machines were all the rage in the '50s through the late '70s. The metal ball bouncing on various bumpers, the flashing ...
Pinball wizards have a home in Scott
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USAMr. Martin, who grew up in South Carolina, left graduate school to work for Stern, currently the only US developer and manufacturer of pinball games. ...
"Simpsons" video game spoofs industry
Reuters - USABy Scott Hillis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In the latest antics of "The Simpsons", Bart chases a giant ape through a video game factory, Lisa destroys a ...
Stern seeks good Fortune
InterGame - Oldham,England,UKWheel of Fortune, the number one syndicated television series, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and Stern Pinball is honouring this achievement ...
Meet Anne Davis, Nashville's new first lady
Fairview Observer - Fairview,TN,USABY GAIL KERR A NASCAR pinball machine sits in Mayor Karl Dean's family room, wedged between the back door and a beautiful table that holds the family's ...
The sound of video games
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States"The whole premise of video games is the interaction; the player is part of everything that's going on," said Greg Cox, one of two conductors for the Gamer ...
Pinball repair wizard has a supple wrist
Boston Globe - United StatesBy David Rattigan, Globe Correspodent November 4, 2007 The back of the vintage pinball machine had been removed, exposing its electro-mechanical innards. ...
Digital pinball table attempts to revive an arcade classic
Sci Fi Tech - New York,NY,USASome would say that the UltraPin digital pinball table is blasphemous for eliminated the heart of a pinball table, but I applaud it for attempting to ...
Bennigan's Taps TouchTunes as Exclusive Provider of Digital Music ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USAThe Pelican Group manages over 30000 pieces of coin-operated music, amusement and vending equipment for Bennigan's and other corporate clients through a ...
Pinball wizard
Jordan Independent - Jordan,MN,USAAs of about 2 pm Saturday afternoon, I am the proud owner of "Full House," a 1966 pinball machine created by the Williams company. ...
Mario fans: let the (new) games begin!
GoErie.com - Erie,PA,USAWhen he first appeared, in coin-operated Donkey Kong arcade games, he was Jumpman. More than 25 years later, Mario is a pop-culture phenomenon. ...
Q&A: Beanbag Studios' Bergenholtz Talks Casual Market 'For Dummies'
Gamasutra - San Francisco,CA,USAWe regrouped in 1993 to form Utopia Technologies and develop coin-operated arcade games and technology. Our first hit title was a coin-operated countertop ...
Feature: 'The History of Atari: 1971-1977'
Gamasutra - San Francisco,CA,USANolan Bushnell Near the midway was a small arcade that featured mostly pinball machines. Bushnell envisioned the day that the pinball games would be ...
Gift ideas for the haves and have yachts
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom... a $1.4 million games room, or "man cave", equipped with an antique pool table, a pair of vintage pinball machines and giant plasma television screens? ...
Gallery: The Rocky History of Rockers in Videogames
Wired News - USALeft: The Who might have been first to make the rock-pinball connection (and there was even a vaguely Who-related Wizard pinball machine featuring Roger ...
Lucky Ju Ju: Get Your Pinball Wizard On
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAHere's a great article discussing a local Bay Area hang-out called Lucky Ju Ju that's supposed to be full of vintage pinball machines. ...
Get your pinball wizard on
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USAMost of the pinball machines allow multiple players so kids can challenge mom and dad to a duel of the flippers and, likely, come out a winner. ...
Another try to modernize the Pinball Machine
SlashGear - Scottsdale,AZ,USAHowever, this updated version does have a few extra features that the old pinball machines don't. This new style has a large flat screen display and has ...
Gerald "Jerry" Dibling
Escanaba Daily Press - Escanaba,MI,USAAfter college Jerry became self-employed as an electronic technician fixing pinball machines, coin operated machines and many other electronic devices. ...
'King of Kong' reign pours on competition
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USAIt was voted the third-best coin-operated arcade video game of all time (after Pac-Man and Galaga). Yes, and now it is 2007, and grown men still chase each ...
Vegas-style fun a family can enjoy
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USAMost of the pinball machines allow multiple players, so kids can challenge their parents to a duel of the flippers and, likely, come out winners. ...
House panel gives its spin on games at adult arcades
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USAGale Fontaine runs four arcades in Pompano and West Palm Beach and is president of the Florida Arcade and Bingo Association. A typical arcade, she said, ...
World's Largest 1-Day Auction in South Carolina
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA... be auctioning off over 1000 Arcade Video Games, Pinballs, Jukeboxes, Pool Tables, Etc. lots of vintage arcade games and collectible pinball machines. ...
It's not all fun and games
Big Bear Grizzly - CA, USAfarsight's "Gottlieb Pinball Classic" game used pictures of parts from real pinball machines to take details from the real world and apply them to the
The Games of Atari Classics Evolved: Part 4
IGN - Brisbane,CA,USASeveral arcade fans got pretty good at the original Asteroids -- that's why Atari took the game to a whole new level with Asteroids Deluxe. ...
Stern rolls out limited edition pinball
InterGame - Oldham,England,UKStern Pinball has released a limited edition Black Suited Spider Man pinball machine and limited to just 500 machine it will make a great collector piece. ...

2007-11-27T09:33:00.000-08:00

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2007-10-30T10:42:00.000-07:00

Golden Tee -
ChinaGolden Tee is the most popular coin-operated game in history, with more than twenty million players worldwide. It generates more than $400 million in ...
The Simpsons Game - A Fact Sheet
Cinema Blend - USAKonami's The Simpsons Arcade Game would be a sweet bonus for those of us who remember and love the last good Simpsons game that didn't feature racing around ...
Local pinball player ranked 42nd in world
Summit Daily News - Frisco,CO,USAFARMER'S KORNER - Jeff Rank is slowly but surely working his way up in the World Pinball Player Rankings (WPPR). Rank, who resides in a Farmer's Korner
The Heartland Plays Pinball
KFVS - Cape Girardeau,MO,USATheir game is pinball. "I can remember when I was a newspaper boy and I spent many dimes and quarters on these games," said Heartland Pinball and Arcade
They still play the silver ball
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USAAJ Fried started the league in 1993, initially calling it the Garden State Pinball Association. "I was a little kid when I first saw them in an arcade and I ...
Transparent Pinball Machine is Awesome, Beautiful
Gizmodo.com - USAThis is the Transparent Pinball Machine, a custom piece created out of a 1976 "Surf Champ" unit by Michael Schiess, owner of the Lucky JuJu Pinball Arcade ...
Players Lost Millions On Illegal Poker Machines
NBC 10.com - Philadelphia,PA,USAAbout $2 million was seized in an undercover bust of illegal video poker machines at local area bars. You might have played one of the gambling machines if ...
See you in ten years?
Beaumont Enterprise - Beaumont,TX,USACoin-operated arcades: According to the American Amusement Machine Association, there were 10000 arcades in the nation 10 years ago. ...
Pinball machines decriminalized
Nuevo Mundo - CA,USABy Melanie Carroll For more than half a century, an obscure town ordinance made it illegal to use a pinball, marble or claw machine in Los Altos Hills. ...
World Pinball Championship Tourney Under Way In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Channel.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USABowen Kerins is a two-time pinball champion of the world. The Salem, Mass., man came to Carnegie to take the title back. "This is probably the most fun ...
Special when lit
Novato Advance - Novato,CA,USABut on the other hand, who is obsessed enough to start collecting pinball machines and attending pinball exhibitions? Are they serious gamers, ...
Kill Screen
Dr. Dobb's Journal - San Mateo,CA,USABut luckily I didn't miss a recent movie -- King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary that's all about the classic video arcade game Donkey Kong. ...
Gaming revenues fight gaming
Scranton Times-Tribune - PA, USAThe action means revenues generated by slot machines - a recently legalized form of gambling - are being used to suppress video poker machines, ...
A Fistful of Quarters
PopMatters - Chicago,IL,USAC. A musty, classic arcade game such as Ms. Pac-Man or Galaga must sit in the corner near the change machine for entertainment. ...
Arcade Flyer Art Saturday: The Classics Edition
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USAOne of my favorite arcade games of all time along with Crystal Castles. I spent more money on this game in the arcade than almost any other. ...
Pinball wizards have field day at San Rafael expo
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USAA mannequin beckons passers-by to play Funhouse, one of about 250 pinball games on display through Sunday. (IJ photo/Jeff Vendsel) FOR SOME, a pinball ...
Gauselmann buys historic coin-op machines
InterGame - Oldham,England,UKIN the mid-1960s, Jean-Claude Baudot compiled a collection of historic coin-operated machines that was unique in France. The collection has now been sold to ...
Swinging Singles, The NSFW Arcade Game
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USAMAME certainly lives up to its mission by giving us a look at something few of us would have been able to experience in 1983, the adult arcade game Swinging ...
Pinball Takes Over Marin Civic Center
Alameda Sun - Alameda,CA,USAAlameda's own pinball wizard Michael Schiess is taking his act across the Bay this weekend. The director of the Neptune Beach Amusement Museum is part of ...
Taking on aliens for Team USA: Local man in video-game Olympics
Seattle Times - United StatesOne of several such events, the seven-year-old WCG bills itself as the Olympics of competitive video-game tournaments, pitting 700 gamers from 75 countries ...
The next horse and buggy
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada... to coin-operated arcades - piggy banks because we're moving to a paperless, coinless society and arcades because home video games dominate the industry. ...
Pinball wizards prepare for expo
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USABy Laura Casey By Laura Casey Even though Michael Schiess owns more than 200 vintage pinball machines, he will tell you he is no collector. ...
'Adult Chuck E. Cheese' Hit With Gambling Charge
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USAAt the time, Zilba told a Tribune reporter, "It's like an adult Chuck E. Cheese." Florida law allows gambling establishments to operate under specific ...
Fairfield man plays himself in video game documentary
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USAHe started a video arcade in Ottumwa in 1981. The next year, he decided to record high scores of video games, which were exploding in popularity. ...
Atari founder: 'Video games today are trash'
GamePro.com - USAby Blake Snow 10/22/2007 10:14:51 AM PST Nolan Bushnell, often referred to as the father of modern video games by creating Pong, doesn't like the ...
Family Amusement Center Auction Goes Online
EcommWire (press release) - Natick,MA,USAMore than 350 video games, pinball machines, CD jukeboxes, pool tables and more will be available for online bidding during the auction. ...
Kids get fit as gym classes pump up video games
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA(October 25, 2007) — To combat rising rates of childhood obesity, local schools are starting to incorporate popular video games and video game systems into ...
Just can't get enoughTimes Record News - Wichita Falls,TX,USANeither Bally, Gottlieb or Williams still make pinball machines, he said. Chicago Coin sold out to Stern in the mid-'70s and the company still puts out ...
Penny Arcade Expo sets 2008 date
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USAThe event has become a fixture for video game enthusiasts, tabletop gamers and others, drawing more than 37000 attendees in 2007. It's an outgrowth of Penny ...
It's game time
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USABut on the other hand, home pinball has really come on strong." As game-room equipment becomes more common in the home, manufacturers have responded by ...

2007-09-22T17:33:00.000-07:00

Multicade now with 40 Games

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New Multicade Arcade Game Now with 40 games
On Sale Now for $2995Has trackball, joystick, 3 buttons, 1&2 players, 19" monitor,
Arkonoid, Burgertime, Crystal Castles, Centipede, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Donkey Kong 3, Frogger, Galaga, Galaga 2000, Galaga: Enduring Freedom, Galaxian, Galaxian Part X, Gridlee, Jr. Pac-Man, Liberator, Mappy, Millipede, Missle Command, Moon Patrol, Mr. Do, Mr. Do's Castle, Ms. PacMan, PacMan, PacMan Plus, Pengo, Phoenix, Pooyan, Qix, Rally-X, Space Invaders, Space Invaders Deluxe, Sinistar, Super Breakout, Super PacMan, Super Zaxxon, Tetris, Zaxxon.

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2007-09-22T17:05:00.000-07:00

Video games attract youngsters
Kane County Chronicle - Geneva,IL,USAThe interest middle school students have in "Dance Dance Revolution" and other video games was a reason for the event. "We're always looking for ways to ...
Businesses Smiling at Local Folk Fest
WLNS - Lansing,MI,USAPinball Pete's Manager Jeff Piotter says business couldn't be better. Jeff Piotter, Pinball Pete's Manager: "We tend to pick up during the folk fest and the ...
Do you do retro style computer games?
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USABut the winner will also receive a helping hand into the international games market, thanks to a special deal designed by Arcade Machines Ltd. that will get ...
Playing for a living
London Free Press - CanadaAnd actually playing video games as a career is becoming a viable option for an ever greater number of gamers. "What we're seeing is more players getting ...
Iraq hero fine-tunes video games used for fun, training
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USAFor Sgt. Tommy Rieman, earning a place on the team that creates the America's Army video games was no game at all. On Dec. 3, 2003, he was a member of Echo ...
Spielberg, Jackson 'looking to get into video games
ATE Online - London,UKOscar-winning film directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are looking to work in the video game industry. Seamus Blackley, a games talent agent at ...
Video Games: Everyone's a Player
BusinessWeek - USAStated in hard cold cash, PwC estimates that the video game market will increase from $31.6 billion in 2006 to $48.9 billion in 2011. This makes video games ...
Madden Scores Another Touchdown with Hottest New Video Game
Hollywood Today Newsmagazine - Los Angeles,CA,USA"They call baseball America's pastime but in the realm of video games it's football," Intihar said. "It's become like a Mario. ...
Make workouts high-tech
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USAA coin-operated dancing game will quickly work up a sweat. "The future of fitness will be entertainment," said Bob Damashek, owner of the Fitness Resources, ...
Arcade king against the Kong in a long-standing feud
The Brunei Times - Bandar,Brunei,Brunei DarussalamBut since the early 80s he has also been the most visible of a group of players whose high-score feats on arcade games like Defender and Ms Pac-Man have ...
'Bizarro World'
Boston Globe - United StatesSince 1998, the museum has played host to the International Classic Video Game & Pinball Tournament, an all-star weekend for the very best classic video ...
Happy Trails
IGN - Brisbane,CA,USAGentlemen, thousands of Penny Arcade and video game fans are descending on Seattle this weekend -- and we're gonna be amongst them. ...
Where's respect for video games?
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USAOn eBay, there's a thriving market for old home consoles - the Atari 2600 seems to be a favorite - and coin-operated machines. An original 1980 Tempest ...
Shootout at the local: Big Buck Hunter is a hit
Great Reporter - ... have been sold in the United States, and it has been ranked the most popular coin-operated game three out of the past four months by RePlay magazine. ...
'The King of Kong' enters a strange and amusing world
Kansas City Star - MO,USAIt's about middle-aged guys who remain obsessed with classic video arcade games. They discuss the intricacies of Pac-Man and Q*Bert with the same enthusiasm ...
Surface Tension - The arcade coffee table
SlashGear - Scottsdale,AZ,USA... features a glass top (you'll need to use coasters on this one) under which is a 19" LCD screen that will display some of your favorite arcade games. ...
Gamers gather in Germany
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USAArmed and dangerous: In Japan, three people broke their arms while playing "Arm Spirit," an arcade game in which the player arm-wrestles with a mechanical ...
These students have got game
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USAIt says about 67 percent of American households play video games on a regular basis. The games themselves have grown up: A modern game can cost between $3 ...
Mastiff Releases Massive Song List for "Pump It Up: Exceed"
XboxSolution - Green Brook,NJ,USAPlease see http://www.mastiff-games.com Andamiro is a major developer and manufacturer of interactive coin operated entertainment equipment supplying the ...
Arcade legends live on in 'Kong'
Gulf Breeze News - FL, USAOne of the most difficult and frustrating of all arcade games of that era was The game was so hard to master that, in my town, if you could get to the third ...
Pinball and Arcade Show returns to Herrin Civic Center
The Southern - Carbondale,IL,USAThis weekend the Heartland Pinball and Arcade Supershow returns to the Herrin Civic Center. Now in its third year, the show will feature over 80 commercial ...
Keeping the Ball Rolling
Alameda Sun - Alameda,CA,USADietrick, 44, the owner of Pinball Revival Co.; Michael Schiess, curator of the Neptune Beach Amusement Museum; and five others were hard at work on a ...
Stern to host AMOA pinball tournament
InterGame - Oldham,Lancashire,UKAll attendees of AMOA Expo will have the opportunity to enter this year's 2007 IFPA-AMOA Pinball Championships, hosted by Stern Pinball on stand 2220. ...

2007-09-14T06:57:00.000-07:00

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2007-09-10T10:11:00.000-07:00

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2007-08-28T07:51:00.000-07:00

New Multicade Arcade Game Now with 40 games
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Arkanoid, Burgertime, Crystal Castles, Centipede, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Donkey Kong 3, Frogger, Galaga, Galaga 2000, Galaga: Enduring Freedom, Galaxian, Galaxian Part X, Gridlee, Jr. Pac-Man, Liberator, Mappy, Millipede, Missle Command, Moon Patrol, Mr. Do, Mr. Do's Castle, Ms. PacMan, PacMan, PacMan Plus, Pengo, Phoenix, Pooyan, Qix, Rally-X, Space Invaders, Space Invaders Deluxe, Sinistar, Super Breakout, Super PacMan, Super Zaxxon, Tetris, Zaxxon
If you have an older Multicade version you bought from us and want to update with all the new 40 games you can send us the CPU board out of your game along with $50 plus $5 shipping and we will update and ship back to you.
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2007-08-28T07:50:00.001-07:00

Amanda Greenspon, Ryan BibboNew York Times - United StatesHis father is an owner of Wave Enterprises, a distributor of coin-operated video games and vending machines in King of Prussia, Pa.New Show at the Ju JuAlameda Sun - Alameda,CA,USA1, Cultural Carnival: the Watercolors of Jarv Falkard, will be on display at Neptune Beach Amusement Museum's Lucky Ju Ju Pinball Art Gallery at 713 Santa ...Video games attract youngstersKane County Chronicle - Geneva,IL,USAThe interest middle school students have in "Dance Dance Revolution" and other video games was a reason for the event. "We're always looking for ways to ...Businesses Smiling at Local Folk FestWLNS - Lansing,MI,USAPinball Pete's Manager Jeff Piotter says business couldn't be better. Jeff Piotter, Pinball Pete's Manager: "We tend to pick up during the folk fest and the ...
Playing for a livingLondon Free Press - CanadaAnd actually playing video games as a career is becoming a viable option for an ever greater number of gamers. "What we're seeing is more players getting ...
Military, medical schools turning to video gamesAustin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USAAfter dying several times while playing 'Doom,' Claudia Johnston had an epiphany: What if video games could be used for professional training? 'Pulse! ...
Ocean's well-known secretPress of Atlantic City - Atlantic City,NJ,USASome of the most popular arcade attractions for adults, according to Rachel Finn, are slot machines and video poker games that cash out tickets, of course, ...
Spielberg, Jackson 'looking to get into video gamesATE Online - London,UKOscar-winning film directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are looking to work in the video game industry. Seamus Blackley, a games talent agent at ...
It's good versus evil in Donkey Kong docLos Angeles Times - CA,USAIn the world of arcade games, "all roads lead to Billy," says Gordon. "He's the expert, so we had to go visit him." "You have to go kiss the ring," says ...
Playing GamesSan Francisco Chronicle - CA, USALooking back at the history of video games, I'm willing to bet that Pitfall, Street Fighter II and Contra have provided just as much enjoyment to the masses ...
Bon Jovi Talks Pong, PinballKotaku.com - New York,NY,USAJBJ isn'ta gamer, but played a touch of Pong and loved pinball and his kids love video games. Anyone who loved pinball, and how could Jon Bon Jovi not be a ...
Make workouts high-techPress-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USAA coin-operated dancing game will quickly work up a sweat. "The future of fitness will be entertainment," said Bob Damashek, owner of the Fitness Resources, ...
Healthy gaming: The new face of video gamesPC World Canada - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada"Brain games," are currently one of hottest new genres, and along with dancing games and fitness sims they're ushering in a new age of healthy gaming. ...
Arcade king against the Kong in a long-standing feudThe Brunei Times - Bandar,Brunei,Brunei DarussalamBut since the early 80s he has also been the most visible of a group of players whose high-score feats on arcade games like Defender and Ms Pac-Man have ...NBA 08 PreviewIGN - Brisbane,CA,USAOn the Carnival side, players can take advantage of the older games, like Hot Shot!, Big Shooter and Pinball, although the largest twist with Pinball this ...History of Online PachinkoPokerNews - USAPachinko is originally a Japanese game, based on a combination of pinball and slot machines. The term "pachinko" is derived from the Japanese word ...
'Bizarro World'Boston Globe - United StatesSince 1998, the museum has played host to the International Classic Video Game & Pinball Tournament, an all-star weekend for the very best classic video ...Not the 1UP Show: California Extreme, Madden Review, Tokyo Game Bars1UP.com - New York,NY,USA... where adventure back into history with such arcade classics as Journey: The Game, Fire Truck!, and pinball legends like Black Knight and Baywatch. ...Classic Arcade Game "Joust" to Become Feature FilmDigital Media Wire - Los Angeles,CA,USALos Angeles - Movie production company CP Productions plans to create a feature-length film based on the Midway Games classic arcade title, ...Video games sales soar in JulyPlaythings - New York,NY,USABy Staff -- Playthings, 8/27/2007 8:12:00 AM NEW YORK--According to the NPD Group, total video game industry sales were $925.5 million, up 37 percent ...Shootout at the local: Big Buck Hunter is a hitGreat Reporter - ... have been sold in the United States, and it has been ranked the most popular coin-operated game three out of the past four months by RePlay magazine. ...Chicago-Born Bally Technologies Back on TrackCasino City Times - Newton Center,MA,USAIt is where the company was founded on January 10, 1932 by the late Raymond T. Maloney, whose first product, the legendary "Ballyhoo" pinball machine, ...
Video games that make payouts are outlawedThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USAColumbus -- Cash-paying video game terminals lighting up dim Ohio barrooms and parlors at an astounding rate this year are akin to illegal slot machines and ...
Signature Devices Signs Agreement With GLOBAL VR for Another ...WM Experts (press release) - Inverness,FL,USA"We are delighted that GLOBAL VR(r) has selected us to develop another new coin-operated game," commented Kenneth Hurley, CEO of Signature Devices, ...The King of Kong: A Fistful of QuartersChicago Sun-Times - United StatesIt was voted the third best coin-operated arcade video game of all time. Yes, and now it is 2007 and grown men still pursue each other across the country in ...

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2007-08-20T11:07:00.000-07:00

New Multicade Arcade Game Now with 40 games

On Sale Now for $2995
Has trackball, joystick, 3 buttons, 1&2 players, 19" monitor,

optional 25" monitor add $300
Arkanoid, Burgertime, Crystal Castles, Centipede, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Donkey Kong 3, Frogger, Galaga, Galaga 2000, Galaga: Enduring Freedom, Galaxian, Galaxian Part X, Gridlee, Jr. Pac-Man, Liberator, Mappy, Millipede, Missle Command, Moon Patrol, Mr. Do, Mr. Do's Castle, Ms. PacMan, PacMan, PacMan Plus, Pengo, Phoenix, Pooyan, Qix, Rally-X, Space Invaders, Space Invaders Deluxe, Sinistar, Super Breakout, Super PacMan, Super Zaxxon, Tetris, Zaxxon
If you have an older Multicade version you bought from us and want to update with all the new 40 games you can send us the CPU board out of your game along with $50 plus $5 shipping and we will update and ship back to you.

2007-08-09T10:03:00.000-07:00

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2007-08-09T09:36:00.000-07:00

Trends: Video Games, Massages And Parties at Work
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USAEmployees can play video games or ping-pong. There's lots of drinks, food and even pets. This type of workplace is just want Gen-Y ordered. ...
California Govenor Signs Violent Video Games Bill Into Law
WorthPlaying.com - Oakland,CA,USA"I am a big believer in those video games. I mean they're terrific, a lot of them are manufactured in California and they're doing a great job," he said at ...
Gaming League Team Contracts Worth up to $1 Million
Gaming Today - Spring,TX,USAAnd the fact that CBS is going to be airing the most recent World Series of Video Games tournament as a one-hour special this fall definitely adds some ...
Animal Paradise grand opening begins Friday
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USAAvailable for enjoyment are the Route 66 Speedway with brand new go-carts and a video-game arcade with the world's largest pinball machine, air hockey and ...
Editor's Note: Editor's Choice
Escapist Magazine - Durham,NC,USAAllen Varney rolls in to peek into the world of Pinball Wizards. And Christian McCrea suggests a new light in which to view the current state of games ...
Pinball Revived
Escapist Magazine - Durham,NC,USAIn fact, the web's pinball revival is more thoroughgoing than you'd expect - or, perhaps, want. The world's last maker of new machines is Stern Pinball, ...
Signature Devices Signs Agreement With Global VR for Another ...
WM Experts (press release) - Inverness,FL,USAFounded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California, GLOBAL VR(r) is one of the world's leading manufacturers of coin-operated video games based on home ...
Pinball Championships In Full Tilt In Gorham
WCSH-TV - Portland,ME,USAGORHAM (NEWS CENTER) -- Pinball fans are gathering in Gorham this weekend for the New England Pinball Championships. The event is sponsored by the Boston ...
Tales from the gaming world
Indianapolis Star - United StatesI can still rattle off my favorite games like long-departed but still-beloved friends. Favorite coin-operated game? Ghosts 'n Goblins. Strategy game? ...
Video gaming targeted
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USAThe city has launched a citywide investigation of about 50 businesses that operate eight-liners and video poker machines. Officials have found that some ...
A Look at the Future of RB
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USA... solution for retrogaming information: Forums will allow people to talk about all things gameroom: video games, pinball, jukes, even decorating tips!
Classic pinball, arcade games coming back for Hudson Days
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo,IA,USABy ANDREW WIND, Courier Staff Writer WATERLOO --- Enthusiasts of classic pinball and arcade games will have a place to play this weekend. ...
Book Review: The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse by Jonathan Selwood
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USAThe Pinball Theory of Apocalypse is the debut novel by Jonathan Selwood. It has all the elements for a fantastic story: natural disasters, modern art, ...
Pin Maine-ia begins July 27
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USABy JOHN EVERETT, News Clerk July 19, 2007 A fraction of John Reuter's pinball machine collection at his house in Gorham. Reuter, aka BallyMan, will host Pin ...
THAT'S HOT
Sydney Star Observer - Sydney,New South Wales,AustraliaEvery Tuesday from 8pm, pinball competitions are held. Sign up for a chance to win a pinball machine worth $3500. Every Thursday from 9:30 pm, ...
So that's what that game is called
Chicago Sun-Times - United States... led to the recent launch of a video game called Bags, made by the makers of Golden Tee, one of the most popular coin-operated video games of all time. ...
Bally leading the field in slot machine, gaming technology
Sun Publications Chicago - Chicago,IL,USAThe company got its start when Ray Moloney brought his Ballyhoo pinball game to Lion Manufacturing in 1931. Bally Manufacturing - today known as Bally ...
Where combat is really mortal
Chicago Sun-Times - United StatesThe ballgame has changed radically since Midway was pioneering simple pinball machines decades ago, and later fathered the arcade games such as Space War, ...
Arcade games just follow him around
Hot Springs Village Voice - Hot Springs,AR,USABy LYNETTE MELCHER Assistant managing editor He's a pinball wizard! Ever since he was a young boy, he played the silver ball. He sure plays a mean pinball! ...
ARCADE GAMES -- Backyard game gone digital
Daily American Online (subscription) - Somerset,PA,USAThe success of Incredible Technology's product is impressive considering that the arcade game's low-tech inspiration is already a popular barroom game in ...

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2007-06-26T07:03:00.000-07:00

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2007-06-26T06:43:00.000-07:00

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. ...

2007-06-08T09:18:00.000-07:00

Homemade Pinball Machine
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAI'm sure many of you have read the "DIY Pinball" story in this month's GameRoom Magazine, where Jeff Mathews made his own "kid-sized" pinball (including ...
Video Games Fight War on Terror
Gaming Today - Spring,TX,USAWKYC 9 News Now has a piece on using a video game interface to help our troops in the War on Terror. The Predator unmanned aerial system is one of the chief ...
Video games 'get kids in shape'
BCS - Swindon,UKAdvanced technology is being used to get children healthy – in the form of video games. Doctors are using computer games to encourage youngsters to get ...
Video Games Fight Cancer!
Gaming Today - Spring,TX,USAFunny, I thought video games were the cause of ADD…. Hey! Are you paying attention?! Alright…put on the hat. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe ...
Hernando County, FL Arcade Re-Opens with Spectre AWP Games
Earthtimes.org - USA... Florida has opened with the Company's AWP games. On February 13, 2007 an operator of a Spectre Gaming equipped AWP senior arcade in Hernando County, ...
Wells-Gardner Appoints Dreamgate As Distributor For Asia
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia... casinos, coin-operated video game makers and other display integrators. Dreamgate is a distributor of gaming machines and table games equipment in Asia. ...
Pac-Man: Championship Edition
Ve3d.com - USAIt's been a long time since the quarter munching design of classic arcade games has felt compelling. Championship Edition is an arcade game for today's ...
Video games get a Texas boost, too
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USARick Perry signed into law Thursday a bill setting up $22 million in film incentives Thursday, he gave the video game industry a boost, too. ...
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. ...
Classic Videogame and Pinball Championships
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAApproximately 90 gamers are expected to gather at what's being billed the world's largest still functioning 80's arcade setting. Ralph Baer, the father of ...
$8000 Touch-Screen Gaming: Megatouch Elite Edge ION
Product Reviews - London,UKThe Megatouch Elite Edge ION is a fantastic at what it does (as it should be for the price), which is a coin operated games system with 160 games that can ...
World Series of Video Games Comes to Los Angeles
Gaming Today - Spring,TX,USAGamers in the Southern California area should check this out: the World Series of Video Games is coming to Los Angeles. The competition is being hosted by ...
Catching up with ... Jim Zielinski
Northwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USAIT certainly has struck a chord with its clientele, succeeding in a market where many other arcade games would have come up short. "Most of our industry, ...
Sony to Lose $413M in Video Games Unit
International Business Times - New York,NY,USASony will lose about 50 billion yen ($413 million) in its video games business this fiscal year, and recovery won't come until the arrival of more games to ...
GameRoom Magazine mentioned in Make Magazine
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAWhether you're a pinball enthusiast, BYO arcade fan, or just into general restoration of our favorite classics, GameRoom has something to offer for ...
Family Guy Video Review
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAIt's a fast, fun, and just plain funny look at one of Stern's newest pinball machines. Be sure and check out his web site when you're done with the video! ...
All my contexts are belong to Maker Faire
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USAThis was the "Lil JuJu" Mobile Pinball Museum, a traveling celebration of the iconic arcade game, and its creator, Michael Schiess, was on hand to show it ...
Call for video games writers
Freelance UK - London,UKA video games website is searching for talented news writers who can pen breaking news stories better than their editorial team. ...
Profit at Sega Sammy plunges on ailing pachinko sales
Mainichi Daily News - JapanSega Sammy Holdings, formed by the merger of a game maker and a pinball company, said Friday its profit tumbled 34 percent for the year ended March on the ...

2007-05-21T14:38:00.000-07:00

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2007-05-10T08:18:00.000-07:00

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2007-05-10T07:16:00.000-07:00

Stern rolls out Spider-Man pinball
InterGame - Oldham,Lancashire,UKSpider-Man is Stern’s newest pinball machine, released to coincide with the launch of blockbuster movie Spider-Man 3. The movie smashed box-office records ...
Video Games Live Rocks E for All Expo - Posted by Kyle on Thursday ...
Game Freaks 365 - South Bend,IN,USAIDG World Expo today announced that the acclaimed Video Games Live Concert is set to perform on Friday, October 19, 2007, during E for All Expo,
Roy A. Burrell: Violent video games affect children's behavior
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USAThe Times agrees, "The pandering of murder, prostitution and various other criminal activities portrayed in video games is indeed gratuitous and morally ...
Video games and other summer jobs.
Valley News - North Hills,CA,USAI thought instead I would just offer my personal help to anyone seeking a job in video games or anything. I can help you finda good place to work as well as
Monkey Island Guru Collabs with Penny Arcade
Next Generation - Brisbane,CA,USAThe Penny Arcade games will feature the comic’s main characters Gabe and Tycho. Precipice of Darkness is being created in an “intense collaborative ...
Forbes Global Life
Forbes - NY,USAFrom 11 am to midnight, six days a week, you can find Tim J. Arnold tending to the 200 pinball machines in his arcade. Called the Pinball Hall of Fame, ...
Rocklin's pinball wizards
Roseville Press Tribune - Roseville,CA,USAphotos by Brad alexander/the press-tribune Rock Around the Clock co-owner Rick Murillo shows off his oldest piece, a jukebox from the 1920s. ...
Have you ever been to Pinball Heaven?
Minnesota This Week Newspapers - Burnsville,MN,USALehmann, 40, of Prior Lake maintains a home arcade that is a pinball lover’s paradise. And paradise keeps getting bigger. ...
Record turn-out for The World Series Of Video Games
MMORPG blog - USAThe World Series Of Video Games hosted in Wuxan, China had 25000 people attending the opening matches. This number eclipsed the first day turn out which was ...
The poor man’s version of Golden Tee
Coolest Gadgets - Newburry,Berkshire,UK... continue your games there. It’s pretty much a memory card specifically for Golden Tee machines. And it’s not just special machines, all coin-operated ...
Forget the Suits and Ties. Bring on the Video Games
AdAge.com (subscription) - USAThere were also two video games lifted from the Adult Swim website: "Bible Fight," which pits Jesus vs. Satan in "Mortal Kombat"-esque combat, ...
Snoop Dogg's Love For Video Games Reportedly Almost Made Him Drop ...
All Headline News - USASnoop Dogg reportedly almost pulled out of a charity concert - because organizers hadn't provided him with an Xbox games console. ...
America's arcades back on the rise
GamePro.com - USADespite the advancement of home console technology and the rampaging beast that is online gaming, arcade games are making something of a comeback, ...
Simpsons: the pinball machine
SlashGear - Scottsdale,AZ,USAA lot of things change over the years, but one thing that hasn’t is the presence of pinball machines. For some reason, these wonderful games have stood the ...
Simpsons Pinball Machine
Uber-Review - USAFeaturing vocals and design by the creator and actors of the Simpsons, a game on this Stern pinball machine is like taking a visit to Springfield. ...
Signature Devices, Inc. Completes Global VR's Highly Anticipated ...
WM Experts (press release) - Inverness,FL,USA... shooter designed especially for the arcade market. First in a series of games licensed to GLOBAL VR® (www.globalvr.com) by game publisher UBISOFT, ...
Duchovny's X Files Pinball Game.
FemaleFirst.co.uk - Ashton-in-Makerfield,Wigan,UKDuchovny's X Files Pinball Game.... David Duchovny likes to play a pinball version of his hit sci-fi TV show The X Files with his son Kyd Miller. ...

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2007-04-03T19:52:00.000-07:00

50 years ago today
Fremont Tribune - Fremont,NE,USADestruction of an elaborate electrically operated pinball machine, which Nebraska state law says is a gambling device, was ordered Thursday by county ...
Naughty Nick's to auction everything from pool to Pac-Man
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USAThe real estate has been sold and owner Ronald Massei is looking for the quickest way to dispose of his 27 billiard tables, 150 arcade games, ...

Sheriff orders arcades to get rid of slots
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USAJacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford ordered operators of Duval County's adult arcades to remove slot-style machines by Monday or risk being arrested. ...
400 electronic poker machines seized
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... were raided this week by more than 100 law enforcement officers who seized nearly 400 electronic poker machines from the proprietors, police said. ...
Brad Van introduces Retro Arcade Week
Isthmus Daily Page - Madison,WI,USAVan is at the center of a growing effort to preserve video games' past, and has been building a collection of vintage arcade games for more than ten years. ...

2007-04-03T19:47:00.000-07:00

Lerna man holds on to the nostalgia of pinball
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, IL - Mar 23, 2007“This all started out to be just a way to fix up one or two pinball machines, just to play with. But, it got out of control,” said Saunders, 50. ...

2007-04-03T06:59:00.000-07:00

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2007-04-03T06:45:00.000-07:00

Gambling plea deal ends case; defendants agree to forfeit 50 machines
Palatka Daily News - Palatka,FL,USA“They plead to possession of coin-operated devices or machines,” Strickler said “They are admitting to having possession of devices that are unlawful.” ...
David Duchovny on The TV Set
ComingSoon.net - USAMy son and I play the "X-Files" pinball game machine. He's never seen the show and he won't until he's a good deal older. Things happen in the machine where ...
Video Game Addiction: Is it Real?
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAMost youth play video games and many feel that they may be playing too much. Nearly one-quarter (23%) of youth say that they have felt "addicted to video ...
Nursing Home Residents Love Video Games Too
WLTX.com - Columbia,SC,USAShe's now an avid video bowler. She tells the Associated Press that bowling with the wireless gamer controller is a lot easier than trying to lift a ...
Most Kids 'Unaffected' By Violent Games
Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USA... revealed children prone to worrying, neurotic behaviour and predisposed to aggression were likely to be more aggressive after playing violent video games.
Private clubs fear crackdown on poker machines
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA"We knew it was illegal, but everyone had them," said Larry Weik, vice president of the Pioneer Home Association in Allentown, which lost its poker machines ...
The Fun Factor 04.02.07: Dance Dance Revolution
411mania.com - Sugar Land,TX,USAThen you have one of my favorite arcade games of all time, Hydro Thunder, with its throttle controls and its subwoofer power that makes you feel like you're ...
Oldsters glomming onto video gamesImediNews - Tbilisi,GeorgiaSEATTLE, March 30 (UPI) ? The video game industry has found that its fasting growing segment of the US casual market is women 40 and older. ...
Posted by: Kevin Steele
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAIt's a giant show with people selling everything from antique signs, slots, jukes, pinball machines, and much more. The show is this weekend (March 30-April ...
Broward judge dismisses arcade suit
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USATo win, the state must prove the arcade games are games of chance and not games of skill. If the games -- which cost less than a dime per play and resemble ...
Press Release: Penny Arcade Expo Early-Bird Registration Ends ...
Fatman Games - USAStarted by videogame-oriented comic-strip creators Gabe and Tycho in 2004, Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is a three-day, round-the-clock celebration of games and ...
Making a case for the artistry of video gaming
The Charlatan - Ottawa,CanadaVideo games have been called a lot of things during the past 25 years. People often consider them a way of life, a pastime, an escape from reality. ...
What's happening
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USAFeatures coin-operated arcade games, pinballs, jukeboxes, dart boards and other games. Dinner/Auction -- 7 pm Saturday, St. Clair Country Club, ...
Posted by: Kevin Steele
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USA... new coin-op amusments, with nearly 150 manufacturers and suppliers to the coin-operated amusement industry showing products such as video games, ...
Pinball scores with disabled
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USAStern, which claims to be the world's only coin-operated pinball manufacturer, helped Kochel and Gulich modify the software and saved them the painstaking ...
Game startup raising $150M
MLive.com - MI,USAThe pair also invested in Massive Inc., a New York-based provider of dynamic advertising in video games. Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) bought the company ...

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2007-03-19T13:49:00.000-07:00

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2007-03-19T05:58:00.000-07:00

Stern Pinball on Made in America
Posted by: Kevin Steele
Set your DVRs, pinheads -- the Stern Pinball Factory will be the subject of this week's Made in America. Host John Ratenzeberger will be tourning the factory, showing you how the last pinball manufacturer in America makes pinball machines.
If you don't know the premise of the show, John travels the US looking for unique companies that produce uniquely American goods. The Stern special will include a tour of the factory, a history of pinball in the US, and an interview with Stern president Gary Stern.]
The show airs this Tuesday, March 20th, at 9pm EST on the Travel Channel.

2007-03-06T07:46:00.000-08:00

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2007-02-26T14:27:00.000-08:00

The New Video Arcade in Spain Might Be the Movie Theater
New York Times - New York,NY,USAA movie theater in suburban Madrid packs in young men in their late teens and 20s to play video games. Theater chains are trying the new concept at a time ...
Games for health?
Daily Vidette - Normal,IL,USAWhatever criteria one falls under, one thing is for sure, video games are addicting. In recent years the online roll-playing game, or ORPG, ...
The pinball wizard who moved up to magic on the stock market
Times Online - UKBy 15 he was reaping income from three pinball machines. He started work as a stockbroker when he was 21, but it was not until 11 years later, in 1962, ...
Some Oscar winners, nominees almost golden as video games
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USAIn the spirit of Oscar weekend, here's a list of the best movie-based games of the past 12 months. For fans, most of these titles are must-buy. ...
Health News In Brief
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USABlasting aliens in video games may help improve a surgeon's skills, suggest researchers at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. ...
Video games put surgeons on cutting edge, study says
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,CanadaA new study shows that doctors who play video games are better at performing an increasingly common, minimally invasive medical procedure
called ...
Amusement Showcase International Trade Show just around the corner
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAASI is the annual spring trade show for distributors, operators, manufacturers and suppliers of coin- operated amusements, music and games. ...
Sheriff orders arcades to get rid of slots
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USAJacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford ordered operators of Duval County's adult arcades to remove slot-style machines by Monday or risk being arrested. ...
Surgeons playing video games have better laparoscopic surgical skills
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USADuring the study, conducted from May through August, 2002, the surgeons also played three video games for 25 minutes while the researchers assessed their ...
AOU Japanese Arcade Show Report
1UP.com - New York,NY,USAAnd every year they have an expo to show off all the new arcade games and arcade technology called the AOU expo. Not unlike the console space, ...
Video games not just for grandkids
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA"I've never been into video games," said 72-year-old Flora Dierbach last week as her husband took a twirl with the Nintendo Wii's bowling game. ...
50 years ago today
Fremont Tribune - Fremont,NE,USADestruction of an elaborate electrically operated pinball machine, which Nebraska state law says is a gambling device, was ordered Thursday by county ...

2007-02-06T06:59:00.000-08:00

Action Video Games Sharpen Vision
Keep the Doctor Away - London,London,UKVideo games that contain high levels of action can actually improve your vision, new research published in the US suggests. Researchers at the University of ...
TransGaming Joins Forces With NVIDIA to Bring Top Tier Video Games ...
CCNMatthews (press release) - Toronto,ON,CanadaTransGaming's Cider technology revolutionizes the migration and deployment of triple-A video games for the Intel Macintosh by eliminating the time and ...
Celebrating fantasy art's influence on video games
MMORPG blog - USAThe tour is set to highlight the artistry that is integral to the creation of video games as well as the influences of classical art on the industry as a ...
HOLLYWOOD ARTS HOSTS DREAM AWARDS HONORING THE ART OF VIDEO GAMES
DMN Newswire (press release) - CA,USAVideo games can be used to promote emotional health and serve as an important vehicle to teach our students critical life and job-readiness skills.” ...
Games are back minus ka-ching
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USAThe 53 coin-operated video slot machines at Lady Jo's do not pay out winnings as they did in the past. Gone are the days when winners would walk out with ...
Some play a (virtual) Super Bowl of their own
Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh,WI,USAVideo games featuring real National Football League players have come a long way from the once-venerated Tecmo Super Bowl with teams from the 1992-1993 ...
Pinball wizards breathe new life into old games
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USAInside two nondescript beige buildings in the 600 block of West Market Street, a handful of workers spend their days dismembering dead pinball machines and ...
Arcade extinction is almost upon us
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USAThe number of arcade game units nationwide dropped from 860000 in 1994 to 333000 in 2004, according to statistics from Vending Times. Revenue from the games ...
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
TheCelebrityCafe.com - Valley Stream,NY,USAAuthor James Paul Gee presents his unconventional position on video games: they're good for us. James Paul Gee takes an unlikely stand on videogames in this ...
SLED: Video-gambling outlawed, but still popular
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USAIn 1999, gamblers wagered $2.7 billion in the state's 33000 video-poker machines. "There are some individuals who are willing to take a chance and put these ...
The Simpsons Pinball Party Machine
Cnet Asia - San Francisco,CA,USAIf you're an enthusiast of everyone's favorite cartoon familiy and arcade games, you'll probably dig US store Brookstone's Simpsons Pinball Party Machine ...
The picture in Vista is anything but hi-def
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona,FL,USAIn a bow to the pinball machines of old, apparently, Vista keeps watch for something called a "tilt bit" when playing HD content. If the tiniest problem is ...
Game Networks Provide Steady Operating Model
Vending Times - New York,NY,USAAmerica’s coin-operated amusements industry is now in its 17th year of networked equipment since Arachnid launched this era with modems linked to electronic ...
Amusement tax is serious issue
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USARevenue from coin-operated games, which are prevalent in Baltimore bars and neighborhood stores, is subject to an amusement tax, a 10 percent tax on gross ...
Her dream job came true at Blueberry Hill
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USAI had always liked Blueberry Hill — I played pinball and video games here when I was a kid — and I thought working here was just the coolest thing in the ...
Burger King profits up 40% thanks to video games
Pro-G - UKYou can snigger all you want at the Burger King video games, but for the fast food chain that created them they turned out to be big business. ...
Penny Arcade Expo makes more room for gamers in 2007
Gadgetell - Chesterfield,MT,USAExhibitors already scheduled to demo their games, gear and other goodies in the dedicated showroom include Microsoft, Nintendo, Privateer Press, ArenaNet, ...
ISI Unveils Hooters-Themed Sports Betting Kiosks in Time for Super ...
American Digital Networks (press release) - Annapolis,MD,USAThe 30000-square-foot "Hooters"-themed casino floor offers approximately 670 state-of-the-art slot and video poker machines and 33 table games - including ...
Midway Announces TouchMaster DS
1UP.com - New York,NY,USAThe original idea died when the company's arcade division went under, but given that the TouchMaster arcade games were some of the few to use the system at ...
GDC Keynotes Announced
Animation Magazine - USA... by Nintendo (then a Hanafuda manufacturer) as an artist in 1980 and was given the task of designing one of their first coin-operated arcade games. ...

2007-01-22T07:54:00.000-08:00

Video Games May Fulfill Innate Human Need
Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USAResearchers are finally realizing something you and I have known for a long time, video games can fulfill psychological needs and improve our well-being. ...
Google Seeking To Place Ads In Video Games; In Talks To Buy ...
Search Engine Land - Redding,CT,USAThis shows that Google is interested in placing ads within video games such as PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and other game console units. ...
These video games are action-packed - for players
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USAHealth researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester recently documented the degree to which some video games can help combat rampant childhood obesity ...
Old school arcade games...anyone wanna play online with me?
Atomic - AustraliaI've been tossing up the idea of playing old school arcade games using MAME and kaillera for a while now, and have finally decided I'd make it happen. ...
Creators Put Politics into Video Games
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USAATLANTA -- Ian Bogost takes some of the fun out of video games — and replaces it with opinion. The Georgia Institute of Technology professor creates games ...
Seminoles seeking Vegas-like slots
BusinessWeek - USAFlorida Gov. Charlie Crist -- the successor to Bush, a gambling opponent -- has chimed in on the issue. He sent a Jan. 8 letter to Interior Secretary Dirk ...
Video games add brain gain
London Free Press - London,Ontario,CanadaParadoxically, one of the solutions is something that, for years, we were told was bad for our brains: Video games. That's right. Once regarded as devilish ...
LEE: 'VIDEO GAMES ARE MORE EXCITING THAN MOVIES'
Contactmusic.com - Burley in Wharfdale,Ilkley,UKComic book creator STAN LEE has lavished praise on video games, insisting they're "more exciting, more colourful and more complex" than movies. ...
Lose Weight By Playing Video Games
NBC 10.com - Philadelphia,PA,USAPHILADELPHIA -- A lot of people think video games are one of the reasons that so many American children are overweight. But one Philadelphia man said they ...
Arcade games find new life in theaters, eateries
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USAWhile many people play video games on their home computers, Dotson said, that shouldn't keep players away from the arcades. "At home, you play games pretty ...
The end is near for Sega's legendary last console
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USAWhile some are spelling this as the end for new NAOMI arcade games, there is no reason to believe that developers won’t be able to run off ROM boards rather ...
Video games can be good for you
Independent Online - Cape Town,South AfricaNew York - Playing video games can satisfy deep psychological needs and, at least in the short term, improve people's well-being, new research shows. ...
Top Ten Canadian Video Games Play in $2M Competition
mediacaster - Toronto,CanadaThe top 10 video game projects were selected by a proven industry jury that comprised Yannis Mallat, CEO, Ubisoft Montreal; Ron Moravek, Vice President, ...
Video Games Sales in the US Topped $13.5 billion USD for 2006
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA2006 was definitely a huge year for console video games as the three major console players released next-generation systems. Nintendo released its Wii and ...
THERE'S MORE TO VIDEO GAMES THAN JUST BEEPING AND BOOPING SOUNDS
VUE Weekly - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada‘If Beethoven were alive today, he would be a video game composer,” says Tommy Tallarico, one of the two creators of Video Games Live. ...

Arcade games find new life in theaters, eateriesEl Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USAWhile many people play video games on their home computers, Dotson said, that shouldn't keep players away from the arcades. "At home, you play games pretty ...

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2007-01-12T09:45:00.000-08:00

University Professor Advocates Video Games in Class
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USAShaffer says that video games will provide a higher order of learning for today's generation of kids who are tech savvy. Shaffer told reporters that the ...
Kids burn twice as much energy when playing active, physical video ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada"I would love to see kids going outside and playing ... but I don't think that they're suddenly just going to abandon video games and go back to that kind ...
Professor pushes video games as teaching tools
Future Tense - Saint Paul,MN,USADavid Williamson Shaffer, an education science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says video games help children master technology, ...
Active Video Games may Fight Fat in Kids
Ivanhoe - Winter Park,FL,USAMaybe, report Mayo Clinic researchers who tested the effects of activity-based video games on energy expenditure in 15 children considered of normal weight ...
2006 - Record Breaking Sales For Video Games In The UK
Gameinfowire.com - USAThere are new and exciting games available and more and more family orientated and mentally stimulating titles to grasp and hold the interest of all ages. ...
Games help educate kids for the future
MMORPG blog - USAMost people don't use the words "education" and "video games" in the same sentence, but an education science professor at the University of ...
German law may ban video games
Variety (subscription) - USADeveloping or even playing video games in Germany could lead to imprisonment if a bill before the parliament there is passed. The bill under debate, ...
World Series of Video Games: In the Tent
Wired Blogs - USAHey look, the World Series of Video Games has a massive tent outside the Las Vegas Convention Center. I'm kind of getting sick of the media's focus on ...
World Series Of Video Games' Head Talks Pro Gaming
Game Informer - TX,USAatt Ringel, president and CEO of Games Media Properties, is known for his work integrating video games with other, more established media. ...
Gaming expo at WCC to be held January 27
Goldsboro News Argus - Goldsboro,NC,USANearly a dozen vintage arcade games will be available - all free with the price of admission. All ages are invited to attend the expo, but gamers must bring ...
Adding Activity To Video Games Fights Obesity, Study Shows
Science Daily (press release) - USAScience Daily — If playing video games makes kids less active -- and contributes to obesity -- why not create more video games that require activity? ...
Dirty Secrets of Episodic Video Games
GameDAILY BIZ - USAHighlights: Over the past 3 years, Halper has helped lead Kuma Games to the forefront of the new market for Episodic Video Games - rich, 3D, immersive game ...
Resurrect These Games!
GamePen - USAA hundred years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, they used to play stand-up coin-operated video games in dank, dark caves called "arcades" where you ...
Tab gets clear with new, larger touchscreen
InterGame - Oldham,Lancashire,UKTab, the producer of high-quality touchscreen games from Austria, has added a 42-inch touchscreen display to its Virtual Pinball game. ...
Exercise your mind: Video games are being marketed to the over-50 set
Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA“When you have an income of less than $700 a month, you're not going to go out and buy a computer or video games.” Miller conceded that most of her friends ...
Peter Piper Pizza purchased; price private
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USAThe typically 8000- to 10000-square-foot stores, famous for their vast expanse of arcade-type coin-operated games and free kiddie playground area as much as ...
Customer service (and video games)
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USAOver the holidays, I was a video-game consumer more often than I was a video-game reporter, and I found the service in almost all stores to be subpar to ...
More Commercials Popping Up In Video Games
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USAThe video games you may have given as Christmas gifts may have a lot more commercials in them than you'd expect. Imagine you're playing a video game. ...

2007-01-11T08:35:00.000-08:00

Video games come alive in Mesa
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USAYet after Ikeda attended a return “Video Games Live” performance at the Hollywood Bowl in September, she came away less certain of her prediction. ...
GCG Feature: 'On Game Design: A History of Video Games'
Gamasutra - San Francisco,CA,USAThink you know about this history of video games? Well, if you're reading Gamasutra, you probably do, but sister educational site Game Career Guide has a ...
Give a child a video game -- and maybe a job
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USAMathematics, science and video games? A US university professor is urging schools to consider using video games as tools to better prepare children for the ...
In realm of 'self-gifts,' sports board games trump video games
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USABut I really enjoy the board games over the video games. To date, I have clicked on the Madden icon several times and played maybe a quarter of football. ...
Suit alleges arcades violate gaming law
Miami Herald - FL,USA... operate under a Florida law nicknamed ''the Chuck E. Cheese exemption,'' which deems arcades legal so long as the games are coin-operated, require some ...
Pimped Out Toilet Has Video Games, DVD
NBC 11.com - San Francisco,CA,USAHowever, video games are just the beginning. This toilet sports a DVD player and a even a beer tap. Everything is at arms length, including a Velcro strap ...

2006-12-07T04:21:00.000-08:00

Christmas and Channuka are almost upon us......
Seasons Greetings from the Game Gallery. We wish everyone a Happy and Safe Holiday Season and hope you have a Wonderful New Year.
This is you last chance to order and receive your items from us in time for the holidays. We hope we can bring lot's of fun and enjoyment to your family this time of year. We have many new products to add to your game rooms. Browse around and if you order December 7th,8th or 9th, tell us you read this and get $250 off your purchase. Happy Holidays!

2006-12-07T04:13:00.000-08:00

Old pleasures garner new appreciation
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA... "The people that grew up playing arcade games are the mature adults now who can indulge themselves with a little nostalgia," said Sandy Duba, spokeswoman for ...
Judge jails gambler, blasts casino
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia... ``How a so-called civilised society can offer the mindless operation of poker machines to witless members of the public under the euphemism of gaming and ...
Capcom Classics Collection Volume 2
Gaming Age Online - Seaford,NJ,USA... They are also leading the way in offering collections of arcade games that run on current hardware, and Capcom Classics Collection Volume 2 is the latest. ...
Korean nukes linked to Japanese pinball
White Rock Reviewer - White Rock,SD,USA... lie elsewhere. Still, the connection between pinball revenues and North Korea makes some Japanese pachinko players uneasy. "I used ...
Germany plans crackdown on violent online games
MSNBC - USA... The two states have drafted a bill that would subject developers, distributors and players of video games whose goal is to inflict "cruel violence on humans or ...
Ricky Gervais Gets His Game On
Wired News - USA... 1979. I've loved all of the House of the Dead arcade games. It's ... shooting zombies. WN: Did you play video games at home or at the arcade? ...
ILLINOIS STYLE: Prototype glove controls video games
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA... If Skowronski has his way, the glove, which he began developing as his senior engineering project at the UI, may be the future of interaction
with video games. ...
Trimming the List of Things People Can’t Do
New York Times - United States... Mr. Kochel, a pinball player who runs an auto repair shop in Passaic, NJ, with his business partner, Gene Gulich, rigged up a Stern Pinball machine with ...
Kevin Harvick's rearview mirror
West Central Tribune - Willmar,MN,USA... Harvick sat down in front of the camera with OTIS HART and RAY ZABLOCKI to talk about his season, his vacation and his collection of vintage arcade games. ...
Chris Miksanek: What if there were video games like these?
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USAIf the recent violence we've seen in crowds awaiting the release of the newest video game consoles is the consequence of a generation of game play, then ...
Video Games Trickle From Rec Rooms to Classrooms
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA... Such exposure is growing more common, experts say, as video games start to trickle out of family rec rooms and into K-12 classrooms. ...
CBS to broadcast World Series of VIdeo Games
GamesAreFun.com - USAThe World Series of Video Games, one of several "professional gaming" tours, is going to be getting some prime time broadcast coverage this December. ...
Court rules video games do not encourage violence
iT News - AustraliaA court in the United States has overturned a law banning violent video games, saying that there is little evidence they encourage violent behaviour in children ...
Video games show violence, aren't source of it
The Daily Athenaeum Interactive - Morgantown,WV,USA... boy or girl this year. And a lot of those special things will come in the form of video games. With the recent release of Sony's ...
Living Well: Violent video games just can't be good for kids
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USAFor about a decade now, psychology researcher Craig Anderson has been putting together a scientific case for why violent video games are simply not healthy for ...
Games for Violence
Los Angeles Times - CA,USAWASHINGTON -- A chainsaw-wielding killer and blood-splattered shooting rampages are featured in some of the 10 video games that a media watchdog group says ...

2006-11-10T08:58:00.000-08:00

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2006-11-09T10:41:00.000-08:00

The Game Gallery Pre-Holiday Sale

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Refurbished Pinball Machines

Tommy
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Riverboat Gambler
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Millionaire
Roller Games
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Mega Touch Bar Top
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Virtua Tennis
Terminator 2 Gun Game
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Smash TV
Area 51
Police Trainer
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NSM Performer Classic

Slot Machines

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Pool Tables

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2006-11-09T09:36:00.000-08:00

CNBC Presents "Game On! The Unauthorized History Of Video Games" PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam,NetherlandsOn Wednesday, November 15th, CNBC explores the fascinating history of video games and goes behind the scenes of the industry's most successful companies in ...
Disney is going to development new video games for the Nintendo ... DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA... The studio will create video games based on Disney characters and television shows. Buena Vista hopes to produce more than 80 percent ...

Epilepsy warning for TV and video games Kathimerini - Athens,GreeceDoctors warned yesterday that parents of epileptic children should be more careful about letting youngsters play video games and watch television for too long ...

Lou Perfidio, freelance writer and pinball whiz Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USALou Perfidio, 43, freelance writer and self-proclaimed "Greatest Pinball Player of All Time," died Tuesday of heart disease at home in the Northeast. ...

When Pong was king Houston Chronicle - United States... the games, for as long as you want, for free.". There will be tournaments and raffles, and prizes and trophies. "We're going to have an original coin-operated ...

Weiss: Are video games harmful to children? Bedford Minuteman - Concord,MA,USAThough many Bedford households will be watching their technology use in November to participate in Bedford Families Unplugged, video games seem to be a part of ...

Video Games Live announces sponsors for shows in South America and ... Music 4 Games - Johnson City,TN,USAHaving already played to over 40,000 people,Video Games Live will continue its world tour by performing the first ever video game music concerts in South ...
Round Up: Viva Pi𠳡, Video Games Live, 10tacle/Ferrari Gamasutra - San Francisco,CA,USA... round-up includes news of a partnership between 4Kids Entertainment and American Greetings Corporation concerning Viva Piñata, Video Games Live heading to

Video Games Live Breaks New Ground PSP Advanced - USABy now, if American gamers aren’t familiar with Video Games Live, they should be. A video game music convert that has been attended ...

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USAVideo games have changed a lot in recent years. They've got more colors, faster processors, even symphonic scores. Games have also become a lot more violent. ...
Violent video games banned in jail New Zealand Herald - New ZealandCriminals can blame National for no longer being able to play violent video games in prison. Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor ...

Telefilm plugs in to video game funding Globe and Mail - CanadaWednesday, in response to the rapidly changing entertainment industry, the Crown agency will launch a new project to support the creation of video games. ...

Data say video games could benefit educationPenn State Digital Collegian - University Park,PA,USA... Washington, DC -- recently released a report on the findings from the Summit on Educational Games, where researchers said the use of video games in classrooms ...

2006-11-02T10:42:00.000-08:00

Popcorn Machine Special This Week 10% Off

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2006-10-31T10:02:00.000-08:00

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2006-10-31T09:50:00.000-08:00

Video games part of post-Sept.11propaganda
United Press International - USAANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Video games have become part of the propaganda arsenals on both sides in the post-Sept. 11 clash ...
Video games get serious, fight real-life woes like cancer, Iraq ...
TODAYonline - SingaporeVideo gamers are increasingly dropping virtual swords and guns, and picking up serious ... A two-day Serious Games Summit ending Tuesday near Washington saw some ...
Career Self Improvement Through Pinball
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USA... It would appear Mr. Orr is a bit of a pinhead and uses at least one pinball experience to make a point about the fact that steps taken to improve one's skills ...
Guardian Unlimited Web
Guardian Unlimited - UK... he recently walked out of a Howard Stern radio interview when Stern mentioned the ... ups of Keith Moon and John Entwistle, are 41 years old; Pinball Wizard is 37 ...
Players will decide what kind of politics video games have
NYU Washington Square News - New York,NY,USA... The editorial assailed the mainstream gaming press for its absence at the National Summit on Video Games, Youth and Public Policy sponsored by Iowa State ...
Video Games
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA... matters. But Superintendent Art Johnson did one thing with last week's call: He got people talking about the new video game, Bully. ...
New video games play to serious objectives
USA Today - USA... Video gamemakers are designing more realistic games, but escalating costs have them seeking additional revenue sources. Possible ...
COIN-OP.TV Episode 44 - California Extreme 2006
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USA... Paul also hold the world record holder in the Stern classic, Frenzy ... Greg Maletic - Documentary filmaker who created, the 'Future of Pinball' which takes a look ...
Osborne Coinage Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, Acquires Van Brook Tokens ...
AMonline.com - Fort Atkinson,WI,USAVan Brook started to tokenize video games with tokens as quarter substitutes ... Tokens provide more security than coin-operated mechanisms as vandals and thieves ...
Nintendo Video Games for Russians
Waleg.com - Tunis,TunisiaSince there’s been a great growth of the various video games in the US, Europe and Japan, Japanese video game maker Nintendo is now looking for a fresh and ...
Company blamed for addict's plight
Melbourne Herald Sun - AustraliaSuzanne Maree McDougall lost $400,000 on poker machines and sold all her assets including properties, shares and a car before escaping to Perth, a tribunal ...
GAME MASTER
New Yorker - United States... He wanted to manufacture coin-operated game-playing machines and license them to amusement arcades ... spend a quarter on me in one of my midway games,” he later ...
PA Pinball and Home Gameroom Show Wrapup
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAI am sad to report we missed posting a news item about the 2006 Home Gameroom Show and Pinball Expo held in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on October 20th - 22nd this ...
Posted by: James McGovern
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USATake pictures or screenshots of your favorite video, pinball, or other arcade games, and use your talents to put yourself, friends, or relatives into the game. ...
Konami Gets In The Groove
Cinema Blend - USABy William Usher: 2006-10-27. Not many dancing arcade games can rival the mammoth success that is Dance Dance Revolution. However ...
Alberta whistleblower faces $10M lawsuit from gaming company
CBC Prince Edward Island - Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island,Canada... for reporting the flaws in its poker machines, which the company has since fixed. WMS Gaming has its headquarters in Waukegan, Ill. ...
Just Who does Stern think he is?
Chicago Sun-Times - United States... been buzzing around town filming episodes for his "Made in America" Travel Channel show at RS Owens -- the Oscars manufacturer, and the Stern Pinball plant in ...
Jaffe: Sony's Live Arcade will be Like HBO Originals
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USA... It doesn't mean those games don't deserve a platform. This is probably the first time since the arcade days that games of this type have had a viable home. ...

2006-10-26T12:28:00.000-07:00

10 Reasons: Why Buy From The Game Gallery

1 OUR INCREDIBLE WARRANTY
We have the best warranty on used equipment anywhere. All machines come with a 90-day parts warranty. THAT'S ALL PARTS! All you do is send us any defective parts for repair or replacement. We will send them back to you freight paid. If you are local and bring the machine to us we cover labor too. If you require an outside service call there would be a charge for that. Prices vary ($25-$65/hr) depending on where you are located. We will assist you in locating someone in your area the best we can.

2 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
You have a 30-day satisfaction guarantee that if your not happy with your purchase you get full credit towards another purchase. It would be your expense to get the machine back to us. Applies to original purchase only. And does not apply on specialty item orders.

3 TECHNICAL AND PARTS SUPPORT
We have factory- trained techs to help you on the phone 5 days a week M-F 10-4. Nine out of 10 times problems can be resolved over the phone. Many times we have found that in shipping a wire comes loose and just needs to be put back on. We have many links from our site for technical help also. We have all the resources to get you any parts you may need to repair, restore or rebuild your machines.

4 CUSTOMER AND SALES SUPPORT
We have the best customer support anywhere to help you with your purchase from shipping, insurance, packing, service or any special needs for delivery. Our sales staff is here to help you with any questions you may have. If and when you have any technical issues you can call our service department M-F and they will be glad to help you resolve your problems you are having.
5 QUALITY MERCHANDISE
You can be assured you are buying quality when you by from us. All our machines go through an extensive checklist before they leave our building. The videos are cleaned inside and out, cabinets touched up, all buttons, switches, joysticks, trackballs etc are tested and working 100%. All pinball machines are completely shopped with all new rubbers, bulbs, cleaned inside and out, all electronics tested and working 100%. This goes for all our used equipment. And again backed by our 90-day parts warranty. All new machines come with factory warranty.
Did you know 65% of our service calls come from people buying games on ebay and other auctions?

6 PACKING AND SHIPPING
When you buy from The Game Gallery you can be assured you will receive your machines in good condition. We take great pride in knowing that we pack our machines better than any industry standards. Right now we are using North American Van Lines for our home deliveries. This is a wonderful service as they pick up machines from us and hand carry them onto air-cushioned trucks. They blanket wrap them for safe travel and then they hand carry them right into your home and place them where you would like them all set up ready to plug in and play. Charge is $275 per machine within 1500 miles from us and $375 if over 1500 miles. If you add a second machine of same size the shipping is FREE. If you require up/down stairs delivery they will do that to for an extra charge. At times we ship commercial or to areas North American will not go. Then we must pack the machines. They are completely wrapped in cardboard with extra protective corners. Then shrink-wrapped and metal banned to a custom-made pallet. We use Tip n Tell indicators and all necessary warning labels. Your machines will arrive at your home or business on a common carrier truck with a lift gate. If you are within 250 miles from us we will deliver in our own trucks and be glad to set them up for you.
7 TRADE-IN POLICY
We offer the BEST in the industry. Anytime within the first 2 years of your purchase we will guarantee at least 50% credit from your original purchase towards your trade-in less any fees incurred in getting items back to us. This guarantee does not apply to items that were special order and we don't stock, then we would give fair market value.
8 LARGEST ON-LINE SUPER STORE
We have one of the largest on-line catalogs anywhere. Browse through hundreds of items new and used to fill your game room or office. To make things easy you can even order on-line by the touch of a button or call us toll free 1.800.966.9873 and place your order. If you are lucky enough to be close to us you can come into our showroom Monday-Friday 9-5. We have over 100 machines on display at any time and plenty more in our warehouse.
9 PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE
While we do accept all major credit cards, checks, money orders and bank wires for payment we do offer some alternatives. We have a lay-a-way plan that you can put 1/3 down, 1/3 in 30-days and the balance in 60-days we will then deliver or ship your machine. We also have 90-day financing with NO MONEY DOWN, NO INTEREST (W.A.C.).
10 KNOW WHO YOUR BUYING FROM
We have been in this industry over 25 years. Our experience speaks for itself. Nowhere will you find the quality of merchandise for the price you are paying. We buy from all over the country and hand pick the nicest used machines available. It would be rare that there would be a machine out there that we do not have, or cannot locate for you. We stand behind everything we sell and will do our best to make you a happy and long time customer. We advertise in most of the high-end magazines like Robb Report, Dupont, Millionaire, PRO and many others. We have many elite customers from Pro Athletes to Hollywood Stars. We do business with many major corporations and their corporate events. We have been on TV and written up in several newspapers about our success. Come join the thousands of happy customers we have from all over the world. Read what some have to say on our testimonial page.

2006-10-26T12:13:00.000-07:00

Staples founder sees a play in Rec Room
Chicago Tribune - United States... Rec Room's products include jukeboxes, bars and bar stools, arcade games and 35 different pool tables ranging in price from $1,000 to $80,000, available in .
Video-Game News in Brief
Washington Post - United States... Sony emphasized the PS3's online PlayStation Store, which will allow users to download arcade games, demos and bonus content for store-bought titles _ stuff ...
Devoted to doers: 'Cliff' brings 'Made in America' to Sub-Zero
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA... & Son in East Moline, Ill.; Astro-Physics, Inc. in Rockford, Ill.; Stern Pinball in Melrose Park, Ill.; and RS Owens in Chicago. ...
Really get into your video games
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USAFor many people, video games are plenty engrossing. These are the guys already physically ducking and dodging bullets in their favorite shooter games. ...
A Show of Support For Video Games
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA... University of Utah education psychology professor Mike Gardner says he agrees that video games can have beneficial effects in stretching the mindd, but it's ...
Officials raid Holyoke business
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USAHOLYOKE - State and local police, fire and other city officials raided a High Street business yesterday and removed poker machines and mini-motorcycles. ...
Video games take good with bad
Eastern Echo - Ypsilanti,Michigan,USA... would be levied upon Thompson. "Bully" is now available from Rockstar games, and is rated T for Teen. On Oct. 19, Sony held a special ...
Old-school arcade games bridge the generation gaps
Bowling Green News - Bowling Green,OH,USAVideo games and the stores and arcades that support them have been an institution ... Bowling Green residents are lucky enough to have a genuine arcade right here ...
Lara and Mario stars of games show
This Is Hertfordshire - Hertfordshire,UK... The exhibition impressively covers the entire history of gaming, from the first ever computer game, to classic arcade games such as Space Invaders and Donkey ...
Video Games Can Improve Learning, Scientists’ Report Says
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USAEducational video games have great potential to hone critical-thinking skills, help teach academic curricula, and evaluate what students learn,
concludes a ...
LOCK AND RELOAD WITH CAPCOM’S ARCADE MASTERPIECES in Capcom ...
GameZone - Livonia,MI,USA... hours of entertainment for players on the go, Reloaded offers faithful arcade ports while delivering competitive and cooperative multiplayer games that can be ...
Luck to decide $1M. winner
Press of Atlantic City - Atlantic City,NJ,USA... Unlike the poker or blackjack tournaments, playing the slot machines entails no skill or strategy. It is luck — and luck alone ...
Muze Partners With IGN Entertainment to Deliver Comprehensive ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA... lifestyle websites, AskMen.com. In addition, IGN provides technology for online game play in video games. IGN is headquartered in ...
Holiday Video Games Could Bring In Big Sales For Game Makers
All Headline News - USA... Sam Kennedy, editor-in-chief of video game Web site 1UP.com told Reuters, "That's going to be big." He added that the new game gives gamers even more control.
How Do Violent Video Games Effect Kids?
Family news in Focus - Colorado Springs,CO,USA... Saints Row is among the newest and most violent video games on the market. The point is to kill innocent people and the police. ...
Nick Jr. Family Magazine November Issue Names Best Video Games and ...
Earthtimes.org - USA... For the tech savvy kids, also featured are the Best Video Games for Kids of 2006, which lists the cream of the crop in console and PC games. ...

2006-10-19T11:07:00.000-07:00

Multicade Arcade Sale - Free Shipping Today

Now available in our New Multicade upright or cocktail $2895
30+ Classic Games in one cabinet

Arkanoid*Burgertime Centipede *Crystal Castles *Dig Dug Donkey Kong Donkey Kong 3 Donkey Kong Jr. Frogger Galaga Galaxian Jr Pacman Ms Pacman Pacman Pacman Plus Liberator Mappy Millipede *Missle Command Moon Patrol Mr. Do Mr. Do's Castle Pengo Sinistar Space Invaders Phoenix Pooyan Qix Super Break Out Sinistar Super Pacman

*Games that work with trackball on upright only
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2006-10-19T10:59:00.000-07:00

The Holidays are just around the corner. Don't get caught short not getting the games you want for your home or office. Order early by November 15th to guarantee holiday delivery. Great deals on refurbished pinball machines. Also time to trade in your old machines? Get the New Pirates of the Carribean or maybe Lord of the Rings, we have a few Sopranos left too..Call now 1-800-966-9873 and see what we can do on your trades to get you all the latest and greatest.

2006-10-19T10:49:00.000-07:00

It's substance over style in choice between NBA video games
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USABy Phil Villarreal. The battle between the two games, Electronic Arts' "NBA Live 07" and 2K Sports' "NBA 2K7" comes down to visuals vs. substance.
Specifics surface on Apple’s new
MacNN - Santa Clara,CA,USA... Stand alone video game machines; pinball and arcade game machines; hand-held unit for playing electronic games; coin-operated video games; toy computers ...
American scientists say video games can reform education
Middle East North Africa Financial Network - Amman,Jordan(MENAFN) - According to scientists, they say that video games is the next great discovery, its a way to fascinate students so much they will spend hours ...
Utilize video games to enhance learning
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA... Parents and teachers today believe that children spend too much time playing video games when they could be studying. But the Federation ...
Here are the hottest new video games
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA... There are a few things we all know about racing games. Most take place in the blazing daytime. Cars are only superficially customizable. ...
Playtime encouraged at gameroom show
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA... leisure room? A vintage Williams pinball game or an old-fashioned Coca-Cola machine might be the perfect finishing touch. The PA ...
VIDEO GAMES: Used
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA... Humans! 2," which is a reminder that the first "Destroy All Humans!" was one of the most creative and humorous games of 2005. It's ...
Video Games Get Serious
Utne Reader Online - USA... the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, to create a video game that ... cites PeaceMaker as one of a growing slate of "serious" games aimed at ...
Arts & Culture: Video Games Become Art
Sin Chew Daily - Malaysia... being able to create things that are so exciting and so accessible to young people. Good video games are essentially works of art.". ...
Nielsen to Track Video Games
Bismarck Tribune - ND, USADALLAS - The company known for tracking television viewers now plans to do the same thing with video games. Nielsen Media Research ...
California Auction Company Retained to Sell Texas Town
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA... All these plus hundreds of coin-operated Arcade Video Games, Pinball Machines, Kiddie Rides, and much more will be offered to the general public with No ...
Technology, Media and Telecoms; Design and concept
Legal Week - London,UK... the claimant alleged that the copyright in its coin-operated video game Pocket Money was infringed by the defendants’ coin-operated video games Jackpot Pool ...
Saturday Night, October 29th - Grapevine, Texas
RetroBlast! - Cleveland,OH,USAPinheads in Texas are in for a treat this Halloween thanks to the folks at the Texas Pinball Festival! ... you guessed it, best pinball themed costume! ...
Blitz establishes download division for next-gen titles
GamesIndustry.biz - UK... with the team that worked on the Burger King project is we've set up a new division called Blitz Arcade, and we intend to make lots of arcade games for direct ...
Video games can add zest to learning, scientists say
Chicago Tribune - United States... of American Scientists--which typically weighs in on matters of nuclear weaponry and government secrecy--declared Tuesday that video games can redefine ...
Young families await Chuck E. Cheese's arrival
Contra Costa Times - CA,USABrentwood children soon will have a new spot for birthday parties with arcade games, pizza and theatrical shows now that Chuck E. Cheese's is coming to town. ...
Summit addresses gambling, gun bounty
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA... Jenkins gave an update on a bill that she introduced that would close down such adult arcades where customers play to win prizes such as debit cards that can ...
Judge Halts Law Banning Violent Video Games
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USAOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A federal judge has blocked a new state law that would prohibit the sale of violent video games to children. ...

2006-10-15T04:56:00.000-07:00

The Holidays are just around the corner. Don't get caught short not getting the games you want for your home or office. Order early by November 15th to guarantee holiday delivery. Great deals on refurbished pinball machines. Also time to trade in your old machines? Get the New Pirates of the Carribean or maybe Lord of the Rings, we have a few Sopranos left too..Call now 1-800-966-9873 and see what we can do on your trades to get you all the latest and greatest.

2006-10-15T04:45:00.000-07:00

School Collecting Video Games for Sick Kids
WLNS - Lansing,MI,USAChildren in area hospitals will soon have video games to play while they recover from surgery. The leadership class at Owosso High ...
The job of the future: playing video games
Lowell Sun - Lowell,MA,USABelieve it or not: There's an 18-year-old kid out there earning a six-figure salary just to play video games. Since turning pro ...
Visions of fun People's Choice Family Center spreads to Gurnee
Waukegan News Sun - Waukegan,IL,USA... Eventually, the new center will feature 50 coin-operated games and a miniature golf course that glows in the dark. It will also ...
Game room to test legal waters
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA... across the state look a lot like slots - wheels spin, and if they line up you win - but game room advocates say they're more akin to arcade games that you ...
Federal Judge Halts Law Banning Video Games
New York Law Journal - New York,NY,USAAP. A federal judge in the Western District of Oklahoma has blocked a new state law that would prohibit the sale of violent video games to children. ...
Playboy's Women of Video Games Hit Shelves, Eliza Unimpressed
Kotaku.com - New York,NY,USAWhen Crecente posted our uber-exclusive Playboy sneak peek of the "Women of Video Games" foldout, the response was one of overwhelming indifference, seasoned ...
Video games: More than child's play for leaders
Globe and Mail - Canada... OPG is among a growing number of companies that now supplement traditional management courses with video games to enhance the skills of their executives and ...
How to get lazy kids into the gym? Video games, of course.
ZDNet - USAThe gym, Overtime, is exclusively for teens (parents must wait in the lobby) and hopes to attract kids who love to play video games by having workouts on ...
Pangea Arcade
Inside Mac Games - Franklin,TN,USAPangea Arcade is a collection of three very old-school arcade games that could be considered pioneers of their respective genres. ...
A Lot of Money for Playing Games
Slashdot - USAknowhow writes "Tom Taylor took the risk of dropping out from high school just to play video games. The guy who is just 18 years ...
Video games News and notes
The State - Columbia,SC,USA... In another sign that video games are infiltrating prime time, NBC’s “The Office” acknowledged that some of us have better things to do than work when we ...
Old-School Video Games Gain New Audience
FOX News - USAAP. SAN FRANCISCO — In an age when the latest video games sport ultra-crisp graphics and cinema-like sound, there is still plenty of love for the good old ...
First of 61,000 slot machines arrives for Nov. 14 opening of ...
Standard Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA... Mohegan Sun plans to install 1,083 of the slot machines and video poker machines in time to open the state’s first casino on Nov. 14. ...
Dropout Makes Big Bucks Playing Games
ABC News - USAOct 9, 2006 (AP)— When 18-year-old Tom Taylor dropped out of high school because he wanted to play more video games, most people were skeptical. ...
Ghost Recon wins video games Baftai
T News - Australia... Applications. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter has won Game of the Year at the UK's Bafta awards for video games. The ...
Here are some of the calls we have received lately:
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA... "I don't think it's right for employers to allow supervisors in the workplace to loaf around, playing arcade games, pinball games, etc., unless that's what they ...
Video Games Not Just for the Young Anymore
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA... Video games are often associated with the bloom of youth, but a study released this week shows that isn't true in all segments of the market -- especially the ...
Women outnumber men in online games, survey finds
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA... The survey defined active gamers as those who are 13 years or older, own at least one game device, and play at least one hour of video games a week. ...
Video games focus of USA Network series
Political Gateway - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA6 (UPI) -- Next month, the USA Network will debut a TV series focused on video games and on related competitions by Major League Gaming that surrounds them. ...
Pupils will be given lessons in video games
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab EmiratesLondon: Video games are likely to become part of the English school curriculum after research funded by the Department for Education praised them as a powerful ...
All women gamers, please stand up
BBC News - UK... in the past found it kinda cool that a girl (shock, horror!) new about such things...and (as a kick in the ego) quite often beat them on the arcade games.:-). ...
Video games outsell music for first time
The Local - SwedenSwedes will spend more on video games than on music for the first time in 2006, according to forecasts from the two industries collated by Swedish Television. ...
Star-studded BAFTA Video Games Awards
MMORPG blog - USA... kicked off, one of the most anticipated event in this week-long celebration is the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Video Games Awards. Video games publisher raids Pinsents for first GC
The Lawyer - London,UKVideo games company Mastertronic Group has hired its first general counsel, snaring Pinsent Masons IP senior associate Nav Sunner for the job. ...

Teen makes thousands playing video games

2006-10-10T15:01:00.000-07:00

JUPITER, Fla., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Parlaying a parent's worst fears, a Florida teenager dropped out of school and now is making thousands of dollars -- playing video games.
Tom Taylor -- his gaming handle is Tsquared -- has a six-figure income through gaming contracts, product endorsements and a video game tutoring business, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post said.
He's one of about 100 professional gamers affiliated with Major League Gaming, a video game league founded in 2002.
"My job is really time consuming," Taylor, Jupiter, Fla., told the Post. "Just recently ... I've been able to relax a little bit."
Taylor's been featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and was No. 1 on Stuff magazine's "The Power List: the Top 20 under 30."
Taylor, 18, began playing when he was 4 and by the time he was 6 or 7 could defeat almost anyone, the Post said. When gaming began conflicting with school, Taylor and his mother talked about alternatives.
In the end, Taylor left school and agreed to get his GED, the Post said.

Big Sale Today at The Game Gallery

2006-10-05T12:31:00.000-07:00

We are offering everything on sale from 10%-30% Off selected items.. Also many FREE SHIPPING deals too. Grab some of our hottest items now and take advantage of these huge savings. Our hottest item of the year, our New Multicade Arcade Game with over 30+ classic games in one cabinet like Ms Pacman, Galaga, Frogger, Donkey Kong and many more..We have all the latest and greatest to fill you game room.. Check out the New Pirates of the Caribbean pinball.. It's awesome and going to be a great investment to hold on to one day..Trade in your old pins now for one of these hot machines..Call 1-800-966-9873 or order on-line.

Video games help kids cope with cancer

2006-10-05T12:12:00.000-07:00

BALTIMORE: She is armed with a “chemoblaster”, looks like Lara Croft and is the heroine of a new video game designed to help kids suffering from cancer cope with the disease.
Roxxi, as she is called, is the main character in “Re-Mission”, a game created by California-based HopeLab as part of a series of so-called “serious games” featured at the Games for Health conference taking place in Baltimore.
“Re-Mission’s” intrepid nanobot is a challenging 3-D “shooter” that takes the player on a journey through the bodies of young patients with different kinds of cancer and blasts away at the cancer cells.
The game, which came out last spring and took six years to design at a cost of 2.5 million dollars, is distributed free of charge to cancer patients. A clinical study involving 400 patients undergoing cancer treatment in Britain, Canada, France, Spain and the United States showed that the game helped young players cope with the disease.
“The study showed that the game affects behaviour enough to have an impact,” said Steve Cole, vice president of HopeLab. “Recognising you have a symptom, fighting for control, these are issues that really make a difference.”The secret to interactive video games designed to improve young people’s health behaviours is that patients “identify with the character, are part of the story where you have a life threat but you can do something about it,” said Debra Liebermann, a pioneer in the sector who helped create “Click Health”, whose hero is an asthmatic dinosaur.
Bruce Jarrel, deputy dean at the University of Maryland’s school of medicine, said the health sector must realise that this new generation of “serious” video games can not only be used for entertainment but also to treat patients.
“The community of medicine has to see a validation to view games not just as entertainment but as a way to healthcare,” he said. At BreakAway, a company that designs commercial games, notably one war game called “Austerlitz”, officials are preparing to launch “Free Dive” and “Turbo Turtle”, two games that take place underwater and are designed to help patients deal with pain.
“One is a totally explorative game design with a virtual helmet for a more immersive experience; the other is more of an action game,” said Lucien Parsons, executive vice president at BreakAway.
He said clinical studies will help determine whether the games help patients cope better with pain.

2006-10-03T12:24:00.000-07:00

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Pinball Wizards: Heartland Pinball & Arcade Supershow

2006-10-03T12:07:00.000-07:00

by jason lee, the southern
Dan Goett, front, talks to Brian Martinez about the game Pirates of the Caribbean. The pair who are from Hallsville and Columbia, Missouri came to Herrin to have the chance to play pinball machines they havent been able to play. Pinball wizards and arcade addicts were in coin-op heaven Friday as the second annual Heartland Pinball & Arcade Supershow brought fifty years of gaming history to the Herrin Civic Center.Offering more than 85 playable pinball and video arcade games from 1955 to 2006, the show gave gamers a chance to try out tables from five decades as well as participate in a pinball tournament for cash prizes and trophies.
Joystick jockeys could be seen Friday night sweating out arcade classics like Donkey Kong Jr. and Smash T.V., while others battled bumpers on retro pinball tables featuring KISS, RoboCop and Indiana Jones.Rob Craig of Marion, coordinator of the event, said he came up with the idea after attending the Pinball Expo, an annual pinball show in Chicago.Craig said he and a group of local pinball buddies wanted to bring the same experience to Southern Illinois."On the drive back from Chicago we decided that we wanted to do this here," Craig said. "Last year's event went great and it's awesome to be able to provide this for the community."This is the first year at the Herrin Civic Center, which Craig said offered a more intimate atmosphere for the show.The event continues from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. today, and attendees can play unlimited games at no cost after paying the price of admission: $5 for children ages 6 to 12, $10 for adults and free for children younger than 5."You can come and play until you're sick," Craig said.Restoring tables and playing pinball has been a hobby of Craig's for nearly nine years. He said he likes the challenge of the game as well as the camaraderie with other pinball fanatics."Pinball is so great because it's a live-action game," Craig said. "While a TV screen is really just static that moves in two dimension, pinball moves in three dimension. It's slamming, it's pounding and it's aggressive. That's what gets people into pinball, and then they get hooked."Ken Hall of Vienna owns about 35 classic pinball machines and brought several to the show.Hall said most of his tables were made from 1968 to 1977."I especially like tables from the era I grew up in," Hall said. "Pinball sort of rekindles the fun you had growing up and you become consumed with it."A pinball table titled "Time Tunnel," brought by another collector, is one of only 70 ever made. Several of the games are also for sale, ranging from $250 to more than $2,000.A new Pirates of the Caribbean pinball game just released a few days ago also made it to the show."This is a really great show this year," Hall said. "It really feels like an arcade in here."For more information about the Heartland Pinball & Arcade Supershow, visit www.supershow.popbumper.com on the Internet.

New Edge, Sega ink dealfor networked gaming

2006-10-03T12:02:00.000-07:00

Arcade gamers will soon have a chance to shoot it out in cross-country tournaments when they plunk their quarters into video game machines, under a deal announced Wednesday between Sega Amusements USA and Vancouver-based New Edge Networks.
New Edge will link Sega's coin-operated gaming terminals through a national high-speed network. The network won't just connect players. It will also allow Sega to monitor games and remotely upgrade terminals.
The game "Extreme Hunting 2: Tournament Addition" will be the first to be networked under this arrangement.

Video Games For The Elderly

2006-10-03T11:59:00.000-07:00

68-year-old University of Texas professor Mihai Nadin is head researcher of Seneludens, a $13 million project to design games aimed at the aging. The goal is to develop therapeutic behavioral environments. Nadin says it is a social responsibility.

"Games will entice the aging to remain fit and mentally active, to connect with others," he said at the recent Games for Health Conference. Researchers have been collecting human sensory data for two years to aid in a new genre of games.

"Baby boomers are not interested in shooting things," said Jeffrey Toth, a psychology professor who has released a game called "Art Dealer" in which players learn how to spot fakes, and how to buy and sell.

Lyons Classic Pinball and Video Arcades

2006-09-29T11:42:00.000-07:00

Posted by: James McGovern

The Coloradian has a great article online today about the classic gaming dynasty of Kevin and Carol Carroll. The husband and wife entrepreneurs own and manage two classic game rooms, one is Lyons Classic Pinball, the other is Lyons Classic Video located in the Oskar Blues Pub in Lyons, Colorado just outside of Denver. If you're planning a trip out to the Rockies, make sure and put these hot spots on you travel itinerary! [link]Lyons Classic Video at Oskar Blues Grill and Brewery 303 Main St., Lyons. 11 a.m. to midnight Sundays through Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Kids are welcome until 9 p.m. when it goes to 21 and older. Information: http://www.oskarblues.com/Lyons Classic Pinball 339 A Main St., Lyons. Open 5 to 10 p.m. Thursdays, 3 to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 to 9 p.m. Sundays. Information: http://www.lyonspinball.com/

Salem pinball wizard ranked No. 3 in the world

2006-09-27T14:25:00.000-07:00

By Chris CassidyTHE SALEM NEWS (SALEM, Mass.)
SALEM, Mass. — He trains only a few hours a week, wears regular street clothes and doesn’t have to dodge the kind of intense media glare you’d expect to trail a world champion.In fact, not a single autograph-seeker approached his table while he picked at a basket of fries at Salem Willows on a recent Friday afternoon.But Bowen Kerins, 31, has been featured on SportsCenter, earned a front-page photo in the Life section of USA Today and won tens of thousands of dollars — all for playing pinball.Yes, pinball.The flashy game of flippers, bumpers and metal balls that has long been a staple of arcades across the country has drawn the Salem resident and former Swampscott High School math teacher to places like New York City and Pittsburgh to compete in world competitions.And before you dismiss pinball as a mindless game for teenagers with quarters to burn, consider this: Kerins has won more than $40,000 in cash and prizes over the course of his pinball-flipping career.He first conquered the pinball world at age 18 as a freshman at Stanford University. He flew out to New York City one weekend, competed against 700 others and was crowned the world champion of pinball by the Pro-Am Pinball Association. Along with the title, he took home $4,000 and a brand-new pinball machine. “For an 18-year-old in college, that’s a much bigger prize than it would be today,” Kerins said. “That kept me from having to get side jobs for quite a while.”Armed with the equivalent of 16,000 quarters, Kerins continued honing the tools of his arcade trade.But with championship glory came lofty expectations. When Kerins failed to repeat as champion the following year, a reporter from Spin magazine covering the event noted that the defending champion had finished “an uninspiring eighth place.”“I like to go around saying Spin magazine called my performance ‘uninspiring,’” Kerins joked.Reclaiming the crownBut last year — more than a decade after his first title — Kerins reclaimed the world championship in Pittsburgh. The prize: a towering trophy and $10,000 cash. “That was pretty cool,” he said.SportsCenter replayed the victory, ESPN 2 filmed a 15-minute segment on the tournament, and Kerins was featured on CNN and even interviewed by a Japanese radio station.If it seems difficult to believe that a national TV audience could find coverage of pinball interesting, you clearly haven’t been watching enough television.ESPN has televised the national Scrabble championship, the championship round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and the Alka-Seltzer U.S. Open of Competitive Eating. The World Series of Darts aired on ESPN for the first time this summer — during prime time. Last year, the World Series of Poker drew a television audience of more than 1.1 million viewers. And one of the featured flicks at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival was “Wordplay,” a documentary about crossword puzzles.So how competitive is pinball? “When you see these poker tournaments, people are insulting each other or cussing at each other,” Kerins said. “None of that ever happens in pinball.“But a lot of these guys take on a persona,” he said. “One guy calls himself ‘The Storm.’ ... I’ll kind of jump around or yell at the game a little bit, but that’s all to take my mind off the fact that I’m competing.”Millions of pointsThese days, Kerins is ranked No. 3 in the World Pinball Player rankings, which claims to be the first international ranking system of pinball players. At one point, he held the high scores on every pinball machine at the Salem Willows Arcade, but the staff regularly resets the top tallies and wiped out his game, he said.On a recent afternoon at the Willows, Kerins managed to rack up about 28 million points in five minutes on The Simpsons pinball machine. But his all-time highest score is 1.7 billion points — a feat that took about two hours of concentration.Playing pinball isn’t the only skill that has put him in front of a television audience. In 2000, he won $32,000 as a contestant on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”He admits he may have had an advantage during the show’s Fastest Finger round. “I give some credit to pinball for helping me push the buttons,” Kerins said. Chris Cassidy writes for The Salem (Mass.) News.X X X HOW TO WINPinball advice from a two-time world champion1. Figure out the functions on the playfield. Some targets will earn you big points. Some will award you a free ball. Learn which are which.2. Develop your aim. “A brand-new player will just flip the ball,” Kerins said. “You don’t have to flip immediately. You can wait and time your flips so you can aim a little to the left or a little to the right.”3. Learn how to stop the ball. By holding the flipper upright, you can trap the ball. Or by extending the flipper straight out, you can let the ball come to rest, then aim your next shot. “Catching gives you a lot of control and gives you time to think about what you should shoot for.”

Pentagon using video games for training

2006-09-27T14:24:00.000-07:00

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The Defense Department's Advanced Distributed Learning program has hosted a NATO gathering to investigate using video gaming to train troops.
American Forces Press Service reported on Sept. 22 that the NATO working group was attempting to determine how better to develop improved interoperability and standards among NATO partners to utilize special video games to train troops before they deploy.
The Advanced Distributed Learning is a project of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative director Robert Wisher, host of the exercise, said, "One thing we know about games is that they're very motivating for learners. We are looking at what can actually transfer from the games to an actual military operation."
According to the ADL Web site the goal of the ADL initiative is allow NATO personnel to have access to the best quality learning and performance video games, which can be tailored to personal abilities and needs and delivered via the Internet anywhere in the world.
During NATO's ADL "Battlefield 2" simulation, NATO members were operating in an urban war simulation in a desert nation.
NATO ADL participant Polish army Maj. Jaroslaw Bartkowski said, "The games are a good teaching tool. It's very interesting to play them. In the cyber age, a lot of people play with them, but we can use them in a positive way for teaching."

Sega, New Edge Sign Broadband Arcade Deal

2006-09-27T14:21:00.000-07:00

Sega Amusements today confirmed a new deal with New Edge Networks to feature high-speed broadband connections in Sega's recently announced new online coin-operated games platform ALL.Net, which is in the process of rolling out across North America.In addition, New Edge Networks' broadband connection will also be featured within Extreme Hunting 2: Tournament Edition. The game, a former Sammy hunting franchise, will link consumers into a common community allowing for national tournaments and online rankings.Under the multi-year agreement, New Edge Networks will install and maintain broadband connections at all game sites on behalf of Sega. New Edge Networks will also provide network monitoring, trouble reporting, and service level guarantees. Sega's ALL.Net platform is designed to allow players to compete in massively multiplayer online tournaments in exterior locations such as bars, arcades and family entertainment centers such as the company’s GameWorks chain. According to company representatives, broadband connections will enable Sega to monitor game availability status, download game updates such as new stages, weapons and animals, host national or regional tournaments, and allow players online access to results and rankings. The broadband connection also will allow multiple Sega games to share the same line. Sega's director of technology Ben Kadish noted, “The broadband connection allows Sega to provide turnkey service and support to help manage the whole process for the operator. The operator’s livelihood hinges on ensuring the games are always working.”

We were pinball wizards!

2006-09-27T07:32:00.000-07:00

Game was an outlet for youngsters who experienced the "trauma" of the 1950sPosted Online 26 September 2006Growing up as a young boy in the 1950’s was a traumatic experience.There were those polio shots every year in school and the Russians were going to “nuke” us so we had to drill crawling under our desks.
And to top that off was the pressure of your parents warning you if you didn’t get better grades, you were going to flunk and spend another year in school.What was a young fifth grader to do?Well many of us found “green pastures of relaxation” in the form of a machine. A machine that stood on four legs and, for a dime, gave you five silver balls and a lot of action. It was called “Pinball.”In the 1950’s there were three main Meccas for pinball action in our big town. One was the Candy Kitchen — better known as the Palace of Sweets — on Clark Street. Another was the Forest Lanes Bowling Alley, which was located across the street from today’s Forest City Foods.And if you were older, Goldy’s Mobil, north of today’s VIP Lounge on Highway 69, was the place to be. (Unfortunately, that was off limits for me because that was where the older “Gearheads” hung out. They were the guys with the white t-shirts with the cigarette packs rolled up on their shoulders. They drove the cars with furry dice hanging from the rearview mirror and with spinner hubcaps.)Pinball players had different styles of play. When they fired the ball into play, some players would pull the pin all the way back and release. Others would pull it back to a specific spot while others slammed it with the palm of their hand.Once the ball was in play and the action started, some players stood like a frozen statue with only their fingertips and eyeballs moving. Then there were others where every muscle from head to foot twisted and turned — almost working up a YMCA-like sweat.Whatever the style, the goal was always the same: Rack up the points to win a free game.Pinball teaches its players many things like how to come up with eye and finger coordination, how to lose gracefully and how to win humbly when you beat an older player on a two-man machine. But what happened to Elliott and myself on a fall afternoon in the late 1950’s taught us much more.Both of us worked on Thursdays at my uncle’s Don Food Market located where Flora Lynne’s is today. One Thursday we got finished at 5:30 and decided to do a little pinball at the Bowling Alley.Upon arrival we found a new machine installed that was a four-player model.So we put in four dimes and went to work. Our skills weren’t very good as we were on the last ball of the last game and weren’t even close to winning a free game.But then we noticed that the first three players score had ended with an “8.” As we ended the fourth and final game, that score also happened to end with an “8.” Now everyone knows pinball machines at the end of play will post a random number 0-9 on the board. If the last number of your final score matches — you win one free game.And then it happened. The machine flashed an “8” match. We figured four free games, right? The machine’s loud distinct wood banging sound was music to our ears as our free game numbers were posted in the lower right corner.First it was one, two, three, four games. All right, we thought! Then what was this? The numbers kept adding up — seven, nine, 14, 17, 19 — and our eyes got even bigger. At an unbelievable 21 free games, it stopped!We had hit the Pinball Lottery!!The machine had made such a noise that the owner, Mr. Bess, came running over thinking we tilted the machine on purpose with a stuck ball to get the free games. But when he saw our pathetic scores, he knew it was a grand slam number match that he had never seen!But we were in trouble — big, big trouple.We had hit the jackpot in pinball, but the clock said it was ten to six and both our parents expected us to be home at six when the auditorium whistle blew.Here we were in “pinball heaven” with 21 free games and good times ahead of us. And time had run out! We left the alley with 18 free games on the machine for someone else to enjoy — complements of us.But reflecting back on that afternoon in the late 1950s, I now realize we not only had a pinball experience but we also had a “life experience.”On that day, two young boys found out what it was like to win big yet at the same time not to be able to take advantage of the rewards.It is a predicament that is repeated many times in life when people win the lottery, get a big job promotion or get ready to enjoy a well deserved retirement only to find out like we did — the time is ten to six.Riley Lewis is a Forest City resident who writes a monthly installment looking back on the heritage of his hometown.

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2006-09-26T13:38:00.000-07:00

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Do Violent Video Games Make You Kill People?

2006-09-26T13:37:00.000-07:00

Scientists have tried everything to link violent video games to violent behavior with no actual scientific proof. If you remember the Columbine massacre, then you will remember the news speaking of how these two teenagers used to play violent video games all the time. The same could be said for aggressive behavior amongst younger kinds aged 9-13.
There must be some sort of link or the gaming companies wouldn’t bother to put an age restriction on video games.
I remember the violent video games of my time…”Mortal Combat” was considered gory and bloodthirsty. But in comparison with today’s video game 15 years later, “Mortal Combat” was more like a bedtime story!
But on the other hand, scientists have proven that the brainwave activity of a child playing “Need for Speed” is the same as an athlete training for a marathon! So there must be some good to playing!
"These two studies, plus other research on video game violence all point in the same direction," researcher Craig A. Anderson, PhD, from Iowa State University, says. "It's a direction that's not unexpected, because the effects of playing violent video games look to be very similar to the effects of lots of exposure to violent TV. Basically, kids who play a lot of violent video games are at risk for becoming more violent people."
Game over!

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum:

2006-09-26T13:36:00.000-07:00

The CD Posted by: Kevin Steele
Everyone here at RetroBlast is a big fan of Marvin Yagoda's famous "Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum," an amazing collection of vintage coin-op oddities located up in Farmington Hills, MI. Marvin's got a fantastic and eclectic collection of strange games, and his site even hosts the invaluable Online Pinball Repair Guides that I've personally used several times to troubleshoot my pinball machines.
Well, now Marvin's museum has inspired rockers Tally Hall, whose debut album is entitled, appropriately enough, "Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum."
(That's Marvin flying in from the top!)
Marvin Yagoda even has a spoken intro on track 3, "Welcome to Tally Hall." Listening to the CD, and especially track 3, convinced me that these guys are true fans of vintage coin-op. Their geek cred was confirmed, however, when I took a look at their web site's biography page, and saw their LEGO-portraits.

Marvin sent me a copy of the CD recently, and I've got to admit that I've really enjoyed it — it's as varied and quirky as his museum, a broad smattering of musical styles and unlike anything I've heard in a long time.

Nathan Jones Update, The Rock Speaks On Video Games

2006-09-25T03:57:00.000-07:00

Story posted by Tim Brown on September 21, 2006
Remember Nathan Jones? For anyone wondering what's up with him lately, he's been getting praise in the media for his fighting roles in the new action movies The Protector and Fearless.
Reuters is running a short interview with The Rock in which he spoke on playing video games as a kid and promoted his new video game. Here's an excerpt from the article:"Atari was the coolest thing but before that I used to live in arcades. Every kid would hang out in arcades. There was this game called Dragon's Lair which was just amazing and I remember being 11 or 12 and being obsessed with that game. It just opened you up especially if you were a kid like me with this vivid imagination. I got reality and fantasy blurred often when I was a kid."As you probably know The Rock is starring in the new "Spyhunter: Nowhere to Run" game just released this month.

Not all video games are for couch potatoes

2006-09-25T03:51:00.001-07:00

Television and video games are often blamed for tubbiness trends, particularly among American children. But University of Miami researchers say it's unfair to group these two forms of entertainment together.
The researchers studied the metabolic and physiologic responses of 21 boys, ages 7-10, as they played the action video game "Tekken 3" for 15 minutes. As the boys punched and kicked their way through the game's mock martial arts battles, their heart rates went up, on average, by 19 percent; their systolic blood pressure rose by a similar amount; and their breathing rates increased by 55 percent.
The levels of glucose and lactate in their blood didn't change as they would during real physical activity. Nonetheless, the researchers estimated from the boys' breathing and oxygen consumption that the energy they expended in playing the video game was roughly equivalent to what they'd use in walking at a 2 mph pace. They reported their results in the April 2006 Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
Surveys have found that American children are playing video games up to 40 minutes a day, which still pales when compared with the average time they spend watching television (2.8-3.6 hours daily).
Some new "exergaming" options are designed to get players up and moving. "Dance Dance Revolution" scores gamers on their dancing abilities as they move to match onscreen steps choreographed to music. This fall, Nintendo is scheduled to release a system called the Nintendo Wii that will feature game controllers with built-in gyroscopes and motion detectors. Instead of just moving their thumbs, gamers will have to get up and move to play.
-Harvard Health

Military and terrorist video games

2006-09-25T03:51:00.000-07:00

By DERRIK J. LANG, Associated Press (ASAP) © September 25, 2006 A new first-person shooter video game circulating on Islamist Web sites, titled "Night of Bush Capturing," allows players to assume the role of a terrorist, gun down U.S. troops and -- in the game's final level -- assassinate President Bush.
It's just another click click, bang bang in a line of gun-totin' games intended to spur interest and even recruitment for militants in the Middle East. (See Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau's "Special Force" or the pro-Palestinian "Under Siege.") According to a viral ad for "Night of Bush Capturing," the game is intended for "terrorist children."

"You're never going to get 100 percent turnover or transformation or enlistment from these endeavors, but I don't think the creators solely saw it as that," says Joshua S. Fouts, executive director of University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy. "They probably saw it as yet another way to engage people in a venue that is popular."
Four years ago, so did the U.S. Army, who created the game "America's Army" in order to recruit and educate gamers about the military. The free first-person shooter offers both single-player and online battle modes. And it was updated last week with new content.
asap downloaded both "America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch)" and "Night of Bush Capturing" to see how they matched up.

"America's Army": Gamers can get "America's Army" from Army recruiters or by downloading it from various video gaming sites like Gameworld Network or 3D Gamers. The 2.5 gigabyte-sized game is often included with computer systems from Dell and other hardware manufacturers like video card maker NVIDIA.
"Night of Bush Capturing": This one is a little tougher to find. The 28 megabyte shooter has primarily been distributed on Islamist Web sites. But since news of the game hit the English-speaking world, bloggers have uploaded "Night of Bush Capturing" to file-sharing services such as RapidShare and MegaShare.
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CREATION
"America's Army": Col. Casey Wardynski told The Associated Press the Army spends about $2.5 million annually on the free PC game, developed by the MOVES Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School. All versions of the game have utilized the Unreal engine.
"Night of Bush Capturing": The video game says it was produced by the Global Islamic Media Front, which is described by the Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute as "a jihadist mouthpiece organization." It appears to be a modded version of the game "Quest for Saddam" from Petrilla Entertainment.
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CHARACTERS
"America's Army": The game originally featured nameless combatants. But in the most recent update, the digital likenesses of eight real soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have been added to a "virtual recruitment station." They can't virtually fight or die, though. And there's no Osama bin Laden to hunt -- the targets are anonymous bad guys.
"Night of Bush Capturing": The shooter controlled by the player of this game isn't supposed to be anyone in particular. But as for the targets: It's all about Bush. The soldiers in six levels of the game resemble President Bush, while a seventh mission requires players to kill President Bush. Posters of Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and other leaders cover walls throughout the game.
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WEAPONS
"America's Army": Players can train and fire a variety of weaponry from an M-246 machine gun to an M-203 grenade launcher to an M-82 semiautomatic rifle. There are also smoke grenades, and fragmentation and vehicle-mounted armaments.
"Night of Bush Capturing": The weaponry in "Night of Bush Capturing" is a little less advanced. Players begin armed solely with a generic assault rifle. Throughout the game, other weapons such as shotguns, grenade launchers and machine guns are available.
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LOCATIONS
"America's Army": The locales in "America's Army" are completely generic. You won't find any mention of virtually traveling to Iraq, Afghanistan or North Korea to do battle. Missions take place in such locales as "insurgent camp," "river basin," "border," "water treatment facility" and "farm."
"Night of Bush Capturing": Same goes for this game. In the first mission, the player begins in what appears to be a U.S. military camp. Subsequent missions take place in desert settings with mission names such as "American's Hell," "Jihad Beginning," "A Day at the Desert

History of SEGA

2006-09-25T03:47:00.000-07:00

Sega was founded in 1951 by David Rosen, an American living in Japan. Originally named Rosen Enterprises, the company focused on art export before moving into the distribution of coin-op machines and photo booths. In 1965, Rosen Enterprises merged with a jukebox manufacturer and changed its name to Service Games -- or short: SEGA. Over the years, Sega, which was eventually bought by Japanese investors, developed games for the early home consoles as well as arcades, and in 1986 entered the console business with the Sega Master System. As a direct competitor to Nintendo, Sega and the Big "N" battled it out with subsequent gaming machines, including Sega's successful Genesis (Mega Drive) and the handheld Game Gear. But Nintendo's head-start in console gaming, a string of unsuccessful add-ons (Sega CD, 32X) and a lack of focus caused Sega to lose market share in the post Genesis days. The next console, the Sega Saturn suffered a fate similar to the original Master System, in that it went up against an extremely powerful competitor -- this time Sony's PlayStation. After an attempt to revitalize the console publishing business with the release of the Sega Dreamcast in 1998, Sega called it quits in 2001 and shifted to become a platform-agnostic publisher.
Utilizing its now mostly re-named "AM" development studios, Sega develops games for all consoles, handhelds and PC.
Sega of America is the American arm of Tokyo, Japan-based Sega Corporation, responsible for the development, marketing and distribution of Sega videogame systems and videogames in the Americas.
Sega Corporation is a major player in interactive digital entertainment media, offering interactive entertainment experiences both inside and outside the home.
The Corporation has also merged with Sammy in 2004, giving that other massive Japanese corporation a large amount of control over the merged business. One of the perks of the merger is that Sammy intends to absorb Sega's outstanding debts while continuing to push classic franchises.

Home is coin-operated museum

2006-09-20T14:30:00.000-07:00

JOHN O'CONNELL
(Peoria) Journal Star
WASHINGTON, Ill. - Dan Metroff has a basement game room that any child can love. In the lower level of his home in rural Washington there are some 20 coin-operated devices, including a pinball machine, slot machines, an electronic keno game, a jukebox, a vintage riding horse, a shooting gallery and penny arcade games with mechanical claws to grasp stuffed animals and toys inside glass cases.
Off the game room is a small room designed to look like a 1950s diner.
"My granddaughter had her fourth birthday party this spring in my basement," said Metroff, 51. "The kids loved the diner. And there were lines up three deep to get on that riding horse in our game room."
Metroff, a machinist at Caterpillar Inc., spends most of this free time in the game room, where there is a wall-mounted, flat-screen television, a wooden bar that dates back to the early 1900s, a card table and chairs, plus his coin-operated machines, old photos and numerous old signs - many of them advertising Coca-Cola. A red-and-white-striped couch in the game room was made from an old Coca-Cola cooler.
For Metroff's wife, Dianna, the spacious upstairs sewing room is where she spends a good deal of her time making wedding dresses and doing alterations for friends. She is a purchasing agent for the inpatient pharmacy at a local hospital.
The two moved into their Cape Cod home 2 1/2 years ago. They brought with them the machines from the game room of their previous home in Peoria.
"I've always had a fascination with coin-operated machines," Dan Metroff said. "About 15 years ago I bought a Coca-Cola machine from the 1950s for $150. It was very rusty. I tore it apart and restored it. And that got me started collecting all sorts of machines."
Over the years, Metroff has purchased machines at shows in Chicago, area flea markets and over the Internet. Many of them are antiques.
His prize is a Watling slot machine from the late 1800s. He also has a number of machines that date to the early part of the 20th century. Prominently displayed is a reproduction of an old popcorn machine and a Twilight Zone pinball machine made in 1994.
"All the machines are set up to operate with tokens of free play," Metroff said. "That's the only way to legally own slot machines in Illinois. I'm not a gambler. I don't go to the gambling boat. I like playing the slot machines, but I don't like losing money. Nobody loses here."
Metroff said he typically buys his machines for between $800 and $2,000. When they are restored, he sells some for a modest profit.
His diner is a small room with a linoleum floor that has a black-and-white checkerboard pattern. The room features a penny weight scale, a Route 66 neon clock, old photos of Peoria, old Coca-Cola signs, the large 1950 Coca-Cola machine and a booth from an old ice cream parlor. On the booth is a tabletop jukebox record selector.
"When we have parties, our guests love playing the machines," Metroff said. "They also think our diner is a lot of fun."
"The living room is our museum," Dianna Metroff said with a smile. "It's like our basement. There are some antique machines and some fun things in it that our grandchildren love."
The living room has several coin-operated machines, including Metroff's Watling slot machine. It also features a short row of movie seats from a theater of the late 1800s, an antique brass cash register from 1910, a wooden hobby horse, a reproduction of a Rock-ola Bubbler jukebox from the 1950s and several toy pedal cars.

Aussie Game Developer Expands Operations In Philippines

2006-09-20T14:28:00.000-07:00

September 13, 2006 6:52 a.m. EST
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent
Manila, Philippines (AHN) - Australian video game distribution Matahari Studios has established a subsidiary office in the Philippines with the aim of tapping Filipino talents to develop arcade-style video games.
The office is located in the business district of Ortigas Center in Pasig City. Matahari's subsidiary in the Philippines would develop mostly video games for video games arcades, particularly for the popular Timezone arcade centers.
Timezone is a sister company of Matahari and are owned by LAI Games.
Matahari general manager Eric Marlow said the company already has several concept games to be developed into actual games. He expects the first game developed in the Philippines to be launched by early next year as he said it takes between 18 months and 22 months to develop an arcade game depending on its complexity.
But he said that once Matahari's exclusive clause with Timezone expires, the arcade games developed in Manila will be sold to other arcade companies both in the Philippines and in the international market.
He said, "Every month we're screening hundreds of applications but we've so far hired only 13 people. It takes a specific skill set to be in this job because we're not going to train new hires with basic video game making because they have to pick that up as they go along."
Marlow said they hope to hire at least 18 more people within the year.

Gizmo Fans Excited By Latest Video Games

2006-09-20T14:24:00.000-07:00

September 14, 2006
By Chief GizmateerContributing Writer, RealTechNews
At an annual arcade expo in Japan, gizmo fans got a treat as the latest video games and technologies were unveiled. For example, Sega’s new virtual driving arcade machine apparently really rocks the drivers as one fan mentioned the game “really makes your body feel vibrations coming right up from your butt”.
One of the most interesting games came from Nameco as they unveiled a on-line video game machine supporting up to 16 players battling in a virtual war game. Players can join the game from different locations but continue to remain in contact through their headsets.

'Filmgame' Firm Cecropia Adds Veteran To Advisory Board

2006-09-20T14:22:00.000-07:00

Massachusetts-based alternative game development studio Cecropia, which Gamasutra profiled exclusively back in December 2004, has announced that it has added industry veteran Ronald Baum to the company's Advisory Board. The company is currently developing its first “filmgame,” The Act, created by former Disney Feature Film Animation Studio animators. A romantic comedy originally aimed at arcade audiences, using a unique 'knob' controller, The Act is a game built around social interaction that Cecropia hopes will draw in a large audience thanks to its simplicity, as well as its story, animation, and addictive gameplay. In The Act, players must control the visual personality cues in the animated characters in order to move to the next level of the game. Cecropia will showcase The Act at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, taking place from September 22 through September 24.Baum co-founded and is vice president of sales and marketing for Cashbox Games, a design and manufacturer of redemption and merchandising equipment for the coin operated marketplace. He is a 25-year veteran of the coin-op industry, having served as both a supplier and in executive sales positions for several coin-op manufacturers such as Williams Electronics, Midway Games, Team Play and Global VR. “Ron is an expert in seeking out, understanding, and meeting the needs of the customer in the interactive entertainment market,” commented Cecropia Founder Omar Khudari, “His expertise will be invaluable for our marketing efforts.”Cecropia itself was established in 2001 by Omar Khudari, co-founder of the game developer Papyrus Design Group (Grand Prix Legends). The Cecropia team is comprised of veterans of Walt Disney Feature Animation, Pixar, DreamWorks and Blue Sky and video gaming industry veterans from Papyrus Design Group, Sierra On-line, Hasbro Interactive and Atari. The company has not yet announced explicit launch plans for the title.