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Taito Classic Qix Joins The Quarter Arcades Range

Time Extension about 10 days ago

Bubble Bobble is returning to the line-up, too.Numskull has announced that Taito's Qix is joining its Quarter Arcades range this year.Originally released in 1981, Qix is one of the few Taito arcade games to be created in North America – it was developed …
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Qix Successor 'Volfied' Heading To Arcade Archives This March

Time Extension about 3 months ago

For PS4 & Nintendo Switch.As reported by Famitsu, Hamster revealed earlier today that it will be bringing Volfied, the sci-fi successor to the abstract puzzle game Qix, to PS4 & Nintendo Switch next month on March 28th.As some will no doubt know, the h …
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A Return to Arcade Odyssey

The Arcade Blogger about 5 months ago

My recent trip to the USA allowed me some time to check out a few arcades, specifically one of my favourites in Miami, FL. The last time I reviewed Arcade Odyssey, was a good five years ago. You can check that out here. The upshot I concluded back then, w …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #101

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I am still playing Starfield more than anything else but last time out I …
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Games Competitions • Super League 2023: Round 13 - Cast Your Votes

LemonAmiga about 8 months ago

Super League 2023 - Cast Your VotesMystery Round ! This vote ends at 23:59 (UK Time) on Saturday 16th Septembe7th October 2023. Vote for up to 5 games released in 1994, and rank them in order of preference 1st - 5th. Each vote gives 10 points. At the end …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #100

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… And yes, I know we’ve reached a hundred of these, but on the basis I did absol …
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New Releases • New Release - QIXSCII by Roman Werner

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

https://romwer.itch.io/qix... Author:The original Qix is an early 80's arcade game by Taito and surprised with its unique style, look & feel and its simple but clever game mechanics.PETSCII on the other hand is the character set that all 8-bit Com …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #99

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I’m not sure why it seems to be an unpopular opinion, but having just f …
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Game Review: Taito Milestones 2 on Nintendo Switch

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

It’s always interesting to go back to a compilation way after the event to see how much of which games you actually ended up playing after the initial rush, and in the case of the first Taito Milestones collection, which first appeared on Nintendo Switc …

Will a k7000 fit in a Taito Qix style cab Vertically

Museum of the Game about 9 months ago

Have a Qix with a dead 4900 but have a good k7000 . Any body know if this is possible that it would fit and not hang out the back door ? If it is do you have to swap everything over to the wg4900 Qix frame? Any yes I know I could get the 4900 chassis rebui …
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Taito PCB mounting plate screw size

Museum of the Game about 11 months ago

Does anyone know what size/type screws to use for the Qix/Zookeeper-style back door PCB mounting plate? I have one that is missing the screws that mount the PCBs to the plate, and none of the screws that I have on hand work. This is the kind of plate I …
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Arcade Raid! Nashville Barn Haul

The Arcade Blogger about 11 months ago

Finding larger stashes of classic arcade cabinets is becoming an increasingly rare event these days. Outside of individual cabinets listed on eBay, Craigslist and Marketplace, arcade “raids” of the type written about on this blog seem to be a …
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Taito Supertech BBS

Museum of the Game about 11 months ago

I spotted this on eBay and grabbed it: I'm guessing Taito included these with the modem they sent operators to allow them to dial into Taito's Supertech BBS (to download manuals, etc). This one is mint and looks like it never left the packagin …

Games most-played at yesterday's graduation party.

Museum of the Game about 11 months ago

We had a party for one of our kids yesterday, and the guest list ranged from 14-70. Games most-played included: Lucky and Wild Pole Position CP Qix with 60 in 1 Tetris Asteroids LNW and PP were played the most by far! …
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RGDS 189 - What is the Best Game of 1981?

Retro Gaming Discussion Show about 7 years ago

Welcome to another amazing episode of RGDS where we discuss and look what video games were released in 1981 and decide what the best game was released that year? Joining us on the podcast is regular hosts Paul “The Drisk” Driscoll, Andy “Cranky Gramp …