Tag archive: arcade

If you'd like a true demonstration of how far phones have evolved in 15 years, look no further than this new Windows Phone game. Pocket-lint found the game, which was developed by Willem Middelkoop. It lifts the entire interface of a classic 1997 Nokia phone and transports it onto a modern phone. Snake '97 plays like the original, meaning yo uhave to press number keys to move your snake around. The goal is to come close, but not… Read More

One day, years from now, we will be cleaning out our garage/attic/underwater pods (it could happen…), and discover an old game on a disc. We may then call the kids down to gaze in wonder at the relic in our hands, before throwing it in the trash and laughing about how quaint we used to be. It may take a long, long while, but the industry is moving more and more towards games that are available digitally, rather than on a physical piece of… Read More

An April Fool's gag that combined an iPad with a wooden cabinet to make a retro-looking arcade machine has hit the mass market after becoming a reality – and immediately sold out. ThinkGeek, a company that claims to produce “stuff for smart masses,” must have had a pretty decent response to last year's joke because it culminated in Ion Audio teaming up with Atari to produce an authentic product – the iCade. Though a prototype… Read More

Fire up the grill! After 20 years on the shelves, Burger Time is coming back to home consoles. The clever bloggers at Siliconera have discovered that the ESRB has rated a new Burger Time HD game for the PC, Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. It is likely a downloadable game. Here's the description, courtesy of the ESRB (They gave it an “E for Everyone” rating). ESRB: “This is an action-platformer in which players assume… Read More

Remember running around the local arcade as a kid, jumping from cabinet to cabinet with friends, blasting aliens, guzzling Coca-Cola and begging your mom for more quarters? Replace the Coke with a Deschutes Mirror Pond Ale and your mom with a bartender, and you have Ground Kontrol, a barcade in Portland, Oregon, where the clanging pinball bumpers, flashing neon and well-trodden carpets colored like whirlpools of graffiti are all intact. And the… Read More

As much as late-night infomercial fodder such as the venerable vegetable slice-n-dicer and the towel-cum-chamois hybrid infuriatingly dubbed the ShamWow have become the subject of intense ridicule, these gadgets have at least one thing going for them – they exist. If nothing else, we can rest easy knowing that someone, somewhere was able to dream up an idea, turn that idea into a product that does what it's supposed to do, and… Read More

LG CU500 Cingular's new High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) service will give you blazing fast speeds in around 20 major U.S. markets. You can expect data download rates close to 400-700 Kbps, similar to EV-DO from Verizon. Only now you do not need to switch networks. Cingular's first phone to take advantage of this new network is the LG CU500, a slim flip phone that features an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera,… Read More

It had been widely assumed that Xbox versions of the games would appear in time since they were developed for the Xbox-based Chihiro arcade machines – which should have made porting them to the home console extremely easy. However, Sega has apparently not made up its mind either way on the issue – with AM2 producer Makoto Osaki telling Japanese publication Dorimag this week that a decision will be reached based on… Read More

Code-named “Chihiro” (after the young heroine of celebrated director Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-nominated animated film Spirited Away, fact fans), the project is being worked on in collaboration withSega, and Microsoft will be hoping that Sega will replace its current Naomi arcade systems (which use a powerful variant of Dreamcast technology) with the new Xbox-based boards. This would not only give Microsoft's console a… Read More