arcades
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Counting Down New Year’s Eve With Hardcore Japanese Gamers
New Year’s is the biggest holiday of the year in Japan. But don’t tell that to these folks. They have arcade games to play.
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LA Suburb Forced To Sell $US100,000 Arcade Game Collection
Among the assets owned by the city of Glendale, Calif. is a collection of classic arcade cabinets once valued at $US100,000. However, the city is being forced to sell them all off and give all of the proceeds back to the state of California.
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A Novel About The Time All The Space Invaders Machines Went Away
If you remember the heyday of giant arcade halls filled with stand-up coin-op machines, then you’ll also remember that one day they seemingly all disappeared. What was it like to live through that bygone era? The Final Day at Westfield Arcade — a new novel by Andy Hunt — explores what it felt like to…
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Wow, There Was A Daytona USA…RPG
It wasn’t made by Sega, sadly, but whatever: around 2003-04, there was an arcade version of Daytona USA going around that added RPG elements to the famous racer.