Tag Archives: Arcade Game

Racing Arcade Game Meets Real Life, It Looks Amateurish But Fun [Video]

by James Johnson
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Racing Arcade Game Meets Real Life, It Looks Amateurish But Fun [Video]

I like when games are given a real world edge. Sometimes a games real world edge is given by placing real landmarks in games, sometimes it’s accomplished with fancy narratives that sound less like a game and more like real conversations, for Malte Nemlich, making games real means providing a real life basis for those games. Nemlich took a remote control car, attached a camera to the unit and then fashioned his own “3-D” track (as in a real track that actually exists in the real world). Nemlich then took his arcade game design one step further, creating an actual gaming cabinet for his controls with a full TV screen Read more »

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker: Bad Ass for its time

by Jayvee Fernandez
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Not that the guy’s already gone but truth be told, Moonwalker which was released in the mid 90′s in the arcades was actually one of the more engaging arcade games of the time. i remember myself in my teens with three of my friends — all playing as MJ. We’d spend Saturday afternoon beating the game. For its time, Moonwalker had spectacular graphics, faithful and catchy background music and charge moves — yeah, the charge moves where’ you’d press and hold the attack button and MJ would moonwalk while charging up a ball of energy. And of course, who could forget the special dance moves that would nuke an entire Read more »