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Arcade EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag OutRun cabinet getting modded into a drivable vehicle 13 Someone is going to die. Garnet Hertz is taking a 1986 sit-down OutRun arcade cabinet and is going to transform it into an actually drivable vehicle. Garnet is stuffing an electric scoo... These blurry Tekken movie set photos are kinda LOL 23 Destructoid community member GuitarAtomik just pointed out this "unofficial" Tekken movie MySpace page, and I'll be honest -- I haven't stopped laughing since I clicked the link.  The page h... Super Street Fighter IV in arcades? Don't rule it out yet 14 Hey, remember when Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono informed gamers that there won’t be an arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV? Well, there may still be some hope for arcade f... Golgoth remaking gorgeous arcade monkey-shmup Toki 35 Up until yesterday, if you were to ask me about monkeys in videogames, I'd start off with Donkey Kong and then mention Super Monkey Ball, Samba de Amigo, and maybe those enemies in the Green Hill... Bellevue getting a $4 million 'game room' 31 Game room? Is that what people want to call arcade nowadays? Anyway, the $4 million game room called Power Play is opening up this Thursday in Bellevue, Washington. The place will be 18,000 squar... New Sega arcade gives players the jump on UFO catchers 5 No, not Unidentified Flying Objects. We're talking about "crane games" here. Anyone that's played them knows how much of a bitch it is to actually nab something with the claws. My advic... Sega Taikan Collection: tiny arcades for Lilliputians 8 In the golden years of arcade gaming, Sega ruled the school with their sit down coin-op arcade machines. Now, any tiny people living in your walls can relive the glory days with Kaiyodo's Taikan ... Softkinetic's iisu: It's like Natal, but for arcades 6 Full-body motion control is the next big thing in home consoles, but it looks like the tech is also coming to arcades. Forget getting your hands skanky on the same joystick and buttons that every... New characters revealed for KOF Sky Stage 14 The official blog for SNK's upcoming arcade title King of Fighters: Sky Stage was updated today, unveiling two new characters. If you haven't already solved this great mystery by looking at the p... @!#?@!: The making of Q*bert 16 Q*bert is a weird videogame, and the story of its creation is even weirder. Well, maybe not weirder. But it's close, I swear!For instance, did you know that it had one programmer, Warren Davis, a... Sega accepting fan entries for Project Diva Arcade 10 Sega announced today that they will soon be bringing the Vocaloid-themed PSP rhythm game Project Diva to arcades. Not only that, but between October 15th and Halloween, they'll be accepting fan-c... Review: Gridrunner Revolution 11 Jeff Minter's Gridrunner Revolution is a good game, and I say that as someone who absolutely hated Space Giraffe. I have no time to play the coy, "these are the opening paragraphs so I don't... Are you a bad enough dude for Data East Arcade Classics? 20 The ESRB had kind of spilled the beans on this one, but now it's official -- Majesco will be releasing the Data East Arcade Classics for the Wii in early 2010. The collection will ... Two custom steampunk modded videogame systems 5 Steampunk is all the rage these days and a couple of people have shown off their custom steampunk mods this past week on the Internets. First up is this DS Lite case mod by Dtoider steampunk10.&n... Super Street Fighter IV screenshots appear! 62 In an effort to write as many stories about Super Street Fighter IV before it's officially announced, here's another one -- French Web site JV247 has some images now! (Yes, that's their watermark... Famitsu confirms BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, new character 45 Holy Azure Grimore, Batman! After a confirmed new version of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger was coming to Europe with new features and characters, Japanese and North American players were left wonder... Elevator Action Death Parade in elevating action 11 Last year, Chad "I have a new favorite videogame every week" Concelmo told us about his new favorite videogame of the week. It was the relaunch of the Elevator Action series as a light ... Angry table-flipping: It's a videogame now 32 Japan will make a videogame out of anything it seems, including domestic violence and anger management issues. The rage of frustrated civilians has been condensed into a new arcade game, in which... Preview: The Warriors: Street Brawl 8 If you would so kindly remember, a few years back Rockstar released a brawler based off the 1979 film, The Warriors. Widely well received, the game offered a fresh appreciation for the violent fi... King of Fighters shmup headed for arcades ... really 16 On its way to arcades this Winter is King of Fighters: Sky Stage, a new vertical shooter from SNK Playmore. The game features flying KOF characters, each with unique capabilit ... wait, what? App... Magical Drop III headed for Wii with Data East collection 22 According to another information leak from the trusty ESRB, it appears the jiggly arcade puzzle game Magical Drop III is on its way to the Wii. It comes as part of a compilation of classic Data E... RetRose Tinted: Time Pilot 7 [A critical eye takes time to develop. RetRose Tinted is a regular feature in which I re-examine games of yesteryear to see if my memories of them live up to the reality.] I have always had a kee... The best pinball machine ever? You'll never see it 28 The best pinball machine ever was created, but it never made it to market. Those dicks at Williams HQ told their people to create the next big thing in pinball back in the late 1990s, and a team ... Ninja Gaiden and Rygar arcade games rated by ESRB for VC 8 If you were worried about the low quantity of Virtual Console releases as of late, there are still good things a-comin'. Over on the ESRB website, Siliconera spotted ratings information for the a... Play this flash game and help save an arcade 12 Arcades have been experiencing a slow, painful death all across the country for more than a decade. Now, you have the opportunity to help save one with Stride Gum's "Save the Arcades" p... Give me one good reason not to want these wee Neo Geo cabs 19 Sure, most gamers around my age either lust to have a full sized arcade cabinet in their home (or like the robot-in-chief Niero, already has one). If you don't have room for one of those behemoth... Square teaser site was for Lord of Vermillion 2 24 Leave it to Square to get us all excited about a teaser site and then have it be for a Japanese arcade game that we won't even get our hands on. Yep, you heard me right: that VII teaser we saw a ... Why Rambo Arcade is the dumbest, most brilliant shooter ever 52 Every Wednesday, Destructoid highlights an overlooked game that shouldn't have been.Rambo, the relatively recent SEGA arcade game, is the dumbest game I have ever played in my adult life.I mean t... Asteroids movie plot details aren't exactly reassuring 29 I still can't get over the fact that Universal bought the rights to produce a film based on the game Asteroids. No, it wasn't your imagination; that actually happened. I mean, do you really need ... RetRose Tinted: Rastan 15 [A critical eye takes time to develop. RetRose Tinted is a regular column in which I re-examine games of yesteryear to see if my memories of them live up to the reality.] Rastan is a game which I... Fan sequel to Kung-Fu released, is awesome 15 The original Kung-Fu was a hugely successful arcade game which was ported to just about everything under the sun. I don't understand why Irem never made a sequel to it, but those of us who've bee... RetRose Tinted: Pooyan 9 I used to play Pooyan a lot on my Commodore 64, but I never really saw the arcade unit anywhere. Perhaps too many years had passed between its 1982 release and the time you would find me crawling... Capcom says Seth and Sagat are overpowered in SFIV (duh) 37 Everybody knows that Street Fighter IV has a few balance issues, and that characters like Seth and Sagat may be taking the piss just a little bit when it comes to how beefed up they are. Capcom h... BlazBlue is ready to rumble: this launch trailer proves it 28 I've never really understood launch trailers, although they've become an industry standard. Take, for example, the BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger trailer (below the jump) that was released yesterday,... Retro goggles do nothing: Dark Presence and digitized actors 38 What you see above is a screenshot of an absolutely brand-spanking-new fighting game called Dark Presence, being developed by Galloping Ghost. If it looks a tad dated, that's because Galloping Gh... RetRose Tinted: Michael Jackson's Moonwalker 25 I know that I am not in any way alone in having vivid memories of Michael Jackson. It's probably impossible to have been sentient in the 1980's and not have the King of Pop firmly in your recolle... BurgerTime gets lobster milkshake'd with BurgerTime Deluxe 22 I love BurgerTime. The surreal world where the game exists has fascinated me for years. In case you don't know, BurgerTime is a game where you control a chef who has to trample across giant burge... RetRose Tinted: Altered Beast 27 I've never been entirely sure why, in many conversations I've had with gamers, the mention of Altered Beast is often met with a groan of derision. My admittedly vague memories of playing the game... New Terminator arcade game makes robot killing seem fun 8 While we weren't particularly impressed by the Terminator: Salvation third-person action game that recently hit consoles, this might be more our speed -- a full arcade cabinet, gun peripherals an... This H2Overdrive trailer made me go get $20 in quarters 12 Thanks to GameVideos, we have what it takes to satisfy your appetite for extreme boat racing action: a trailer for the spiritual successor to Hydro Thunder, H2Overdrive!There's no denying the gre... Breaking barriers at the highest arcade in the world 7 Reflex- or twitch-based videogames are a lot like visual art or music in a lot of ways, particularly in that they don't depend on language to communicate ideas effectively. A good game is good, n... Mad Dog Mcree coming to the Wii (It's a rhyme!) 25 I am almost positive that my glasses are beyond RetRose tinted on this one, but I'm going to say it anyway: Mad Dog McCree was the greatest arcade light gun game ever made. Here me out here. Not ... Look out for Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram on XBLA next week 15 Sega's bringing Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram to Xbox LIVE Arcade, in case you weren't aware, and it's sounding pretty damn good. The port, which will be up on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace on Wednesd... Destructoid review: Burn Zombie Burn 23 Zombies are great aren't they? Damn right they are. As enemies of humanity they are persistent, deadly and singularly driven to accomplish their goals. As mirrors into the soul of mankind, they a... Bubble Bobble NEO headed to Xbox LIVE Arcade 16 According to a rating found on Germany's USK ratings board Web site, Taito is set to bring a title called Bubble Bobble NEO to the Xbox 360. Previously rumors floating around the Internet ha... Arcade crazy? Build your own Vewlix style cabinet 17 First off, this DIY option is not for the layperson. Hardcore only, I'd say. But, if after reading this headline you already have your shoes on to rush out to Home Depot, we'd love to see what yo... Square Enix confirms release date for Bubble Bobble Plus! 13 In February Bubble Bobble Wii came to Japanese WiiWare, and I was oohing and aahing over it in hopes I might get to play one of my classic favorites with tons of extra maps including expert map p... Shenmue daddy Yu Suzuki steps down at Sega 10 Remember when Shenmue and Virtua Fighter creator Yu Suzuki was the sh*t? He still is in my book. But back then you would always hear about him being attacked by geeky fans as he got out of Ferrar... Come play King of Fighters XII, Street Fighter IV challenge 10 Last year Anime Matsuri (Houston, Texas, April 10-12) was one of the first to have Tekken 6 available for play. This year they follow that debuting tradition with the highly anticipated King of F... GDC 09: Wii Virtual Console Arcade revealed, launched 30 Yep, news is still flowing out of Nintendo's GDC 09 keynote. Nintendo is once again expanding the Wii Virtual Console, this time adding support for arcade titles. Yay! As you might have expected,... How Guitar Hero Arcade rapes your wallet and then some 26 Yes, an arcade machine version of Guitar Hero (mostly based upon Guitar Hero III) actually exists. While this isn't the first time we have heard about it, I don't believe anyone has taken the tim... First video from sickeningly cute Mr. Driller World 8 Not long after the news that Mr. Driller was coming to Japanese WiiWare in the form of Mr. Driller World, we have video to show you of the title. The classic title has certainky gotten a bit of a... Not-quite-live from Japan's Arcade Operators Union Entertainment Expo 5 [This past weekend, the Arcade Operators Union Entertainment Expo -- one of the largest gatherings of arcade manufacturers in the world -- swept Japan. Our extremely-part-time Japanese correspond... Castlevania arcade game hits Japan, looks perfect for the Wii 9 It looks like the Castlevania arcade game we showed you awhile back has finally hit Japanese arcades this week. Castlevania: The Arcade uses a "whip/sword controller," that (as you can ... First details on H2Overdrive, the spiritual successor to Hydro Thunder 26 3 ... 2 ...1 ... GO GO GO!!!If you didn't just read the above text in the voice of the corny announcer from Hydro Thunder, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I practically worship the arcade ra... A drug-addled Alec Baldwin's refuge? Why, Galaga, of course 8 It wasn’t easy being Alec Baldwin in the ’80s. The decade that became infamous for its addictive excesses nearly consumed an endless list of celebrities, including Baldwin, who just w... You must read the Street Fighter IV 'Training Manual' to stand a chance 33 Earlier this week, Capcom was kind enough to send Street Fighter IV preview code our way. And no, you can't come over and play. Sorry. Along with the game (which I can't say anything about yet ot... Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna's hand glows with an awesome power now that it's on PSP 12 If you've ever spent a day dragging yourself from arcade to arcade in Japan, you might have seen these gigantic pods that people were placing themselves in and wishing them they were a Gundam pil... King of Fighters XII's roster is well endowed, chock-full of flamboyant asians 48 SNK Playmore recently revealed the full cast of fighting characters in The King of Fighters XII on their official website. In the above picture, you’ll notice that the cast is bunch of semi... Get learned: Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World of Japan's Game Centers 6 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. W... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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