Tag: ARCADE

Share It's a combination that surely could only come from the hand of God: beer and arcade games. No, this isn't a joke or a dream. Someone really has created this heavenly contraption. According to Uncrate, the Arkeg Drink n Game is an arcade cabinet that holds a five-gallon keg and comes with 69 classic arcade games -- from 'Asteroids' to 'Mortal Kombat II.' (This Internet- and iPod-ready ...

Police in Nevada recently found a lot more than a bunch of quarters inside an intercepted arcade cabinet. In a move many gamers could appreciate, Las Vegas resident Kevin Dixon decided that stuffing a bunch of marijuana inside an arcade cabinet would be the perfect way to smuggle it between Arizona and Illinois. Unfortunately for him, there's no restart button or 1-UP in real life. According to ...

We've watched the video... a hundred times. We've found plenty of other instances where some stupid child managed to accomplish the same task, and yet we still can't figure out how on Earth these little rug-rats get inside the machines! This is not a trick of the camera, this is actual security footage of a small child climbing into, and then back out of, one of those claw machines that has ...

Over the last few weeks, Microsoft's Xbox Live service was suffering from a number of problems that prevented gamers from signing on or joining in games with their buddies. Those problems were rectified earlier this week (and then the service went down again). Microsoft is coming out and not only explaining what caused the prolonged outage, but is taking the extra step of offering a free game as ...

This week is all about retail stores stealing the thunder of big gaming companies. Yesterday it was a new PS3 model leaked by Best Buy before Sony had a chance to announce it. Now we have word of a new Xbox 360 model being leaked by Amazon.com and confirmed by Toys 'R' Us. The new model is a replacement for the cheapest 360 version, the cut-rate Core system that shipped with a wired controller ...

For professional arm wrestlers, broken arms are a risk of the trade. When you get two big guys pushing like crazy in the opposite direction, injuries are bound to happen from time to time. Now, when you're playing an arm-wrestling game in an arcade in Japan, you probably wouldn't expect to be subject to the same risks. But serious pain is exactly what came out of a Japanese arcade, where three ...

In what many thought was a huge waste of taxpayer money, the U.S. Army in 2002 released its own video game called 'America's Army.' It was PC-exclusive at first and enabled gamers to get a taste of the Army lifestyle ... an extremely limited and action-packed taste, but a taste nonetheless. Now, gamers will be able to get an even more limited (and, presumably, even more action-packed) look at the ...