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So it looks like SNK Playmore will finally get around to finishing King of Fighters XII.It will be released on the Taito Type X2 arcade hardware and should look like the previous game.  Here’s hoping for a complete game this time around and a fixed online mode.  Whatever happens, this game WILL NOT be a [...]

The Neo-Geo restoration adventure continues.  I finally received my new convex buttons from Happ Controls and also picked up a nifty little solder mate: the proverbial third hand. Installing the buttons would have been a breeze but I soon realized that I was missing all of the joystick & buttons wires from the MVS harness.

It [...]

This week we are touching on a topic that is near and dear to Jango’s heart: Arcade collecting.
Jedah Doma, Decepticreep, Jangofatt and Baldy touch on our home arcade memories from Jango’s first crappy machine to the short run with NFL Blitz to the groups current love for SNK’s MVS setup. Decepticreep lightly touches on [...]

 

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Okay. after taking about 6 months off on this project, I decided to finally get off my ass and finish it up.  Within those months, I re-sanded the red sides and painted them at least three times. Not being happy with the results, I switched over to oil based paint and bought better rollers, which [...]

So there is a new Metal Slug game and it’s on the PSP. The ratio is fucked and there is a weird border but who cares, the game looks better than the DS version AND it supports co-op. The bigger question I have is this: why in the hell haven’t any of the [...]

This week on Pinecade, we at Pineconeattack proudly present to you: Crossed Swords for the Neo-Geo by Alpha Denshi (1991).
Beat ‘em Up Mondays was a great name but we felt it really limited on the wide variety of games we can play for this type of a show. Since these vids are for Pineconeattack.com, [...]

So this week we took some time to discuss the merits and detriments of all the excess crap we accumulate when we’re start buying video game peripherals. If you have a chance feel free to add to our list of horrible crap.  And yes we totally forgot to cover all the crappy dancing pads that [...]

 

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Welcome to Bipolar Review.
Bipolar Review exists only for games that are so polarizing that one simple review is not enough to contain the emotions. The formula is simple, one person, who absolutely loved the game, will write down his thoughts about the game that brought him so much joy while his polar reviewing opposite will [...]

Yesterday after a long day, I was greeted with a tube sitting in front of my door. I was so exhausted I almost stepped on the darn thing. It a good thing I didn’t. So today, feeling a bit more refreshed, I decided to see what kind of a poster I won [...]

Now this info was a ninja theft from the news & rumors section at Neo-Geo.com. Apparently, someone had deconstructed the info from the game disk and found a list of characters that are and are not in the game. Some of the characters who aren’t in the game but are listed is Takuma, [...]