Posts Tagged ‘Arcades’
Gaming In the Streets [Japan]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 29th, 2009
Only in Japan would you find an arcade with the theme of playing in China's "backstreets." Called Your Warehouse, the whole complex is basically eight stories of rusted scum...that actually provides amenities like towels to sweaty DDR players. [Kotaku]
Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting [Arcades]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 22nd, 2009
Meet the Texminator. It's an arcade cabinet that tests your texting speed. It was also inevitable.
Seriously now, my youngest sister has a phone she never uses—save for texting. LOLs and ttyl's have long replaced spoken word, and the clickity clack of her slider phone keyboard easily drowns out the family small talk at the dinner table during holidays.
It's only natural that some entrepreneur would turn this phenomenon into a game and make a little coin off of it. The game features arcade and race the clock modes, as well as a 2-player competitive mode. The joysticks are toy cellphones. Obvi.
And I'm just speculating wildly here, but since Rockstar didn't develop this one I'm pretty certain there's no hidden Hot Coffee sexting level. [ChipChick via Ubergizmo]
Japanese Arcade Game Lets You Flip a Table in Anger [Gaming]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on September 18th, 2009
Gaming is all about escape. You know, to a distant planet or to the Super Bowl. Or, in this Japanese arcade game's case, to a world where you have the balls to flip a table when people piss you off.
Yes, "Cho Chabudai Gaeshi," or "Upending the Tea Table Game" is an incredibly boring-looking arcade game where you "pound a soft table for combos and then upend it for the finishing move." It's based on a Japanese saying about flipping a tea table, which basically means you've had enough.
I'm looking forward to the American port of this, "Punching Through a Sheetrock Wall in Anger Game." Should be a hit! [Kotaku]
Tour Michael Jackson’s Ultimate Mega Geek Den [Arcades]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 6th, 2009
After getting a glimpse of Michael Jackson's personal arcade, I worry that I, too, may be suffering from Peter Pan syndrome.
The arcade's been posted online as a fully explorable panorama. From Crazy Taxi to Guitar Freaks to Han Solo frozen in carbonite to the 360-degree spinning Sega R360 jet fighter cabinet, Jackson amassed a daunting collection of arcade games and general geek paraphernalia—much of which was auctioned off earlier this year.
It's notable that the collection seems to be frozen in time during the mid 90s. That's right around the timeframe of Jackson's notorious $22 million molestation settlement. Though, more fairly, it's also the same era that consoles really started to cut into the arcade experience. [Pinesane via Kotaku]
