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Sega Reportedly Working on Crazy Taxi Reboot!
Crazy Taxi arguably represents one of the most iconic arcade games of all time. At the same time though, I think it would also be fair to say that it didn’t really fully break into the mainstream culture until it was released on home consoles such as the Sega Dreamcast…
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Pachinko Industry Tanks in Japan – Will Konami Finally Have to Make A Game?!
While once a booming industry in Japan, it would appear that arcades, in general, have taken a pretty huge hit over the last few years due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation. A factor that only recently led to Sega officially having to completely withdraw itself from the market. – On…
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After Over 50 Years, SEGA Officially Withdraws From the Arcade Market!
The arcade business certainly isn’t what it was 30-40 years ago. In fact, many of the once major manufacturers of arcade games have long since abandoned the market due to its overall drop in popularity. One of the few to keep at it, however, was SEGA who, for the last…
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Mad Catz Unveils New Gaming Peripheral Products!
Mad Catz has announced the launch of a new extensive array of gaming hardware peripherals. Products to be released include the S.T.R.I.K.E. 6 gaming keyboard, the P.I.L.O.T. gaming headset series, the S.U.R.F. RGB mouse pad, the G.Y.R.A. gaming chair, the C.A.T. 9 game controller, and a new fight sick—the T.E.…
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Arcade1Up Announces Classic Simpsons Arcade Cabinet
The Simpsons arcade cabinet was perhaps one of the first things that truly got me into gaming as a hobby. Well, either that or the Teenage Mutant ‘Hero/Ninja’ Turtles one. Put simply, although it would eat my relatively few coins faster than I could eat a pack of Opal Fruits,…
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Classic Arcade Machines Climb in Value After Twitch Fuels Comeback
I’m a big fan of both modern and classic arcade gaming. I’m a child of the ’80s, so rocking up to Jolly Giant Toy Store to play the Donkey Kong machine, or rattling some change into a Mortal Kombat and Time Crisis machines down at the bowling alley are some…
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AVerMedia Live Streamer CAM 513 4K Web Cam Review
The world changed a lot when we entered lockdown, or whatever your local equivalent of that was. With so many of us transitioning to working from home, homeschooling, or simply just being at home more… you can relate, I’m sure. The demand for good quality webcams exploded for work meetings,…
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Mad Catz Unveils the EGO Arcade FightStick & C.A.T. 7 Gamepad
Mad Catz Global Limited, the leading innovators in gaming hardware, is excited to announce two new console products, the EGO Arcade FightStick and the C.A.T. 7 Controller, each boasting multi-format compatibility, stunning designs and a high-specification feature set. Leading the charge is a triumphant return to fighting game controllers in…
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Do You Remember These Amazing Lightgun Games?
So, do you remember these amazing lightgun games? If you’re somewhat of a regular here at eTeknix, you’ll know that at the start of lockdown, I built my own arcade machine. It’s pretty freaking awesome, but it was lacking something. A light gun! So, as lockdown continued to ravage our…
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I Built My Own Light Gun for my PC & Arcade Machine
If you’re an older gamer like myself, you’ll remember a time when a shooting game involved an actual gun. However, outside of the now rather rare arcades, light gun games are all but gone. The main issue is those modern TVs don’t work in the way old tube TVs did.…
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The ULTIMATE Quarantine Gaming PC
It seemed our “Happy New Year!” was somewhat of a failure this year, from losing several family members and then moving into global pandemics and plenty more beyond. We’ve been through it all and we needed a victory. So, I hatched a plan to do something awesome both with my…
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Ryan Reynolds to Star and Produce ‘Dragons Lair’ Netflix Movie
Dragons Lair is undoubtedly one of the most iconic and instantly recognizable games ever released thanks, in no small part, to the animation style coming from Don Bluth. While the original arcade game itself garnered a reputation as a ‘quarter muncher’ (thanks to its rather unforgiving style of gameplay) it…
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The Street Fighter II CPU Was A Big Dirty Cheater!
On home consoles or in arcades, there are few games as iconic as Street Fighter II. Particularly those that emerged in the earlier 90s. While playing another person was great fun, there was always the challenge of fighting your way through all the characters in single-player to beat M. Bison.…
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Billy Mitchell Threatens To Sue Guinness & Twin Galaxies
Billy Mitchell is back in the headlines again and, as you might expect, its for reasons that are more than a little unusual. If you are, incidentally, not aware of who this man is then that is no fault of your own. It’s a name largely only known by those…
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Capcom Credits 50.8% Profit Spike To Digital Downloads
Capcom is currently one of the few AAA developers who are in the middle of something of a hot streak. With Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry 5, and Monster Hunter: World all proving to be huge successes (both with fans and critics) it showed a significant turn around from…
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