I’m sure many of us grew up in the 80s and 90s were Arcade games was very popular. Classics like the Simpson’s, Turtles, X-Men, Wrestle fest and Mortal Kombat had gamers spending all of their Quarters after school. So Wouldn’t it be nice to play these games again on you …
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Naka-Kon 2023: A Midwest Tradition
2023 is our fifth year of covering Naka-Kon, a local con in our area. My photographer and I experienced the event and really took what it had to offer. In previous years we’ve questioned whether or not the event was worth traveling to, we’ve discussed how it celebrates Japanese heritage, …
Read More »The latest measures taken by Microsoft to combat XBOX Retail Mode emulators
Retail Mode emulation is a process where Homebrew and Emulator apps (UWP) bypass certain security protocols allowing these apps to be installed and run on all Xboxs without the need for a dev account. In Mircosoft, eye this enables unauthorized access to apps and games in their store and you …
Read More »Hardware Review: Undercover Cops CE Box Set
So, I got this review unit for Undercover Cops CE months after the product was out of the zeitgeist. They found it and asked if I’d like to cover it and I was much obliged. I thought they were crazy to send it over to me months after its release. …
Read More »Tastemaker’s New Arcade1Up Machines Announced
Ever since the first Arcade1Up wave, Tastemakers has consistently announced more and more machines. The years have been kind to those with space and money. Tastemakers have just announced even more for the upcoming year. They’ve brought us even more 80s/90s machines and worked on updating them to be even …
Read More »Taito’s making a mini arcade cabinet called The EGRET II…
Just like all the other gaming companies Taito is also jumping on the mini-console trend with the ERET II mini. You can preorder the Egret II Mini at PlayAsia.com for $170 bucks.. From the looks, it might remind you of the Sega Astro City mini or the Neo Geo mini. …
Read More »How To: Install an ArcadeModUp Mod Kit into an ArcadeOneUp Cabinet
We’re back again with one more article about ArcadeModUp’s Mod Kit bundle. If you’re one of those who’s purchased an Arcade1Up for $50 and you want to mod it, we have a review of the kit. Click here to read over that. If you’ve already purchased one and it may …
Read More »Review: ArcadeModUp’s Mod Kit Bundle
Recently, I purchased a Final Fight arcade machine from Walmart as they went on sale for $50. This was exciting for so many reasons, but mainly the price was finally right for me to purchase one. If you want to read my review on it, click here. If you just …
Read More »Review: $50 Final Fight Arcade1UP Machine
This article may seem outdated, but I assure you, it just became…indated? I’m making this claim for the reason that the arcade machine just dropped to $50 from $299.99. Everyone is wondering if they should buy it at $50. So that means that today we’re going to break down everything …
Read More »Assembling Final Fight Arcade 1UP Cabinet
There are those of you snatching up Walmart’s purge of their older Arcade 1UP machines at $50 each. I was one of them and I wanted to make an article about how to assemble them. I would wager that most of them assemble the same way. But just to make …
Read More »HitBox Review: Should you make the switch?
When I started getting into fighting games the last generation, I started off with a pad. I then made the switch to a fightpad, which I used for a while until I went to my first Evo and decided I wanted to learn on an arcade stick. For the past …
Read More »Review: Karate Champ Micro Arcade from My Arcade
My Arcade is a company built upon making portable gaming devices or just smaller iterations of larger systems (as well as other fun things). They have a large line of portable systems that can also be plugged into a TV via video out and played that way. Today we have …
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