A Light Up X-Arcade XXL Machine
One of our users, Lane, demonstrated his arcade machine using the X-Arcade XXL. The machine comes chalked up with many additional features which he describes here: “I am using a Playstation 2 (not using MAME) - and using all the games as provided by you guys. I just have a hard disk added (with HD [...]
Continue reading...The History of Pong
Friday, January 16, 2009
It started with an idea. Al Alcorn, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, pooled their efforts together to create not just the first commercially successful video game, but also one of the most famous video games ever. Many Pong articles out there offer few details to the events preceding the release of Pong, but only just [...]
Continue reading...Evolution of Game Controllers
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Many have speculated and even analyzed how video game consoles have progressed over the decades in terms of graphical capabilities, sound, storage capacity and speed. With an abundance of specs to compare on the game system itself, it seems that the heart of user and console interactivity, known as the gamepad, has been ignored all [...]
Continue reading...X-Arcade Cocktail Mame Cabinet
Monday, January 5, 2009
Cruzilla, a user from the MameAddicts forum, build his own cocktail cabinet made for four players using a 22 inch monitor, 2 X-Arcade Solos, 1 X-Arcade Dual Stick, and a sleek exterior covered by tempered glass. Dubbed the Cruzilla Flashbacks, this arcade machine was was made by Godzilla fans for Godzilla fans. There’s nothing like [...]
Continue reading...The Turbo-charged World of Japan’s Game Centers
Monday, January 5, 2009
From Destructoid: You know those crane games they have inside movie theaters and sports bars in North America? The ones with the seemingly impossible-to-get Batman stuffed toys? They’re huge in Japanese arcades. Who knew? Certainly not me, so it’s a good thing I had a chance to finish reading through Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World [...]
Continue reading...Big Man vs. Machine
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
From The Washington Post: BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — All around him there is music now. Jangling. Clanging. A little steel ball rolls up a ramp and down the ramp, off the bumper, off the flipper, off the wall, back up the ramp, back down the ramp. Lights flashing. Numbers roll. At this moment, Todd MacCulloch [...]
Continue reading...Video game classics still generate interest
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
From Taipei Times: The HD age dawned three years ago in the video game world and brought novel gaming concepts, breathtaking graphics and crystal clear sound. Video games had never seemed closer to reality. And then something happened: the technological prowess of the consoles was also harnessed to revive ancient classics of video gaming. That [...]
Continue reading...Image Gallery
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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