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Intel To Play PII Chips In Arcade Games
News The firm will lure developers by pitching the ease of porting X86 arcade games to orthodox PC environments. Arcade systems will run 512Kb cache Pentium II chips on Windows 95 and, next year, Windows NT.
[April 29, 1997, 11:13]
Atari Arcade Games To Reappear On Mobile Phones
News Mobile users could soon be playing classic arcade games such as Asteroids and Frogger on their phones by the start of next year. Its programmers are now reproducing some of the very best video games of twenty years ago in formats that will run on...
[June 21, 2001, 16:17]
Palm OS Gets Midway Games, Discounts
News Palm OS handheld users can now turn their PDAs into gaming machines with the release of a suite of classic arcade games for the platform. Classic arcade games are considered an important driver of handheld sales, and the mobile games market is...
[September 28, 2001, 17:34]
A Year Ago : 3Dfx Spells Out New Voodoo
News The firm, which has sold over one million Voodoo-based cards already, comes from an arcade games background and 3Dfx spokesmen said that the Voodoo 2 is designed using advanced arcade technology such as parallel rendering and dual texture units.
[October 12, 1998, 7:01]
ECTS: PCs Will Rule Entertainment - Intel
News Recent successes for the PC in the entertainment sphere have been the uptake of Pentium technology at the heart of a new wave of arcade games. Whittier said that at a major arcade event in the US, 15 new Pentium-based arcade games were demonstrated.
[September 8, 1997, 16:39]
The Lessons Of Experience
News Seems like you've got your finger in a lot of pies, from arcade games to mobile phones. What that gave me was knowledge of how the financial side of the arcade business worked. We started out in the arcade business, and that worked fine.
[March 16, 2005, 11:40]
Gaming Companies Take Aim At Online Profits
News Microsoft will take a step toward mini-transactions with Xbox Live Arcade, an upcoming service that will allow customers to download arcade-style games for a typical price of $10 or less. Unlike previous editions of the E3 game trade show, this...
[May 14, 2004, 11:50]
VideoLogic PowerVR Card Whips Up Support
News This is an arcade card for high-quality game play. The Apocalypse 3D card (£160 + VAT) will be available from November, bundled with PowerSGL and DirectX drivers, and two games. The card has already received the support of Compaq and NEC who are...
[October 18, 1996, 14:15]
TetriBox
Downloads TetriBox is a pack of 18 different arcade games played on either square, or hexagonal, or triangular with figures formed by boxes, hexagons, or triangles. There are the games where the figures fall to the bottom of the playing net.
[July 13, 2006, 1:17]
Computer Games: 40 Years Of Fun
News These will include "early computer games" -- featuring Computer Space, which in 1971 was the first arcade game -- the "creative process of games" -- containing details of individuals who played important roles in the growth of the industry, and a...
[November 23, 2001, 16:49]
Boom
Downloads Boom is an arcade game in the grand tradition, bringing the playability and feel of 8-bit console games to the Macintosh. As a space trooper, your mission is to penetrate 8 alien infested areas, each one divided in 10 sub-zones, eliminate all...
[April 29, 2008, 5:59]
Intel Unveils Its First 3D Graphics Chip
News Co-developed with Real3D, the Intel740 chip is optimised for Pentium II-based systems with AGP support and promises 'arcade-quality' 3D games performance in mainstream systems. Intel said it has worked with application developers in games, CAD and...
[February 12, 1998, 11:37]
MostFun Game Player
Downloads The MostFun Game Player gives you the top puzzle, action, arcade, word and strategy games with absolutely no fees or time limits. Play all the games you want for as long as you want without paying a single dime, ever.
[March 9, 2007, 21:51]
ARM Pushes 3D For Mobile Phones
News The new products are the fruit of a year-and-a-half-long collaboration with Imagination Technologies, also based in the UK, whose PowerVR architecture has powered everything from arcade games to the defunct Dreamcast console.
[August 7, 2002, 15:48]
Virgin Looks To Cash In With SMS Gaming
News UK-based developer iFone said last year it was working on a project to recreate classic Atari arcade games on mobile phones. Virtual mobile operator Virgin is hoping to boost the amount of money it makes from its younger subscribers by launching a...
[February 21, 2002, 14:07]
Building Microsoft's Gaming Empire
News At the same time, the company has been touting its Xbox Live Arcade service, through which the company is regularly releasing hit games of the past such as "Pac Man", "Galaga" and "Defender". He's probably played PC games online.
[October 23, 2006, 12:40]
Xbox Mod Chip Discontinued
News An early version of an Xbox media player is in circulation, as is a beta release of an Xbox version of MAME, a popular piece of "emulator" software that allows PCs and other systems to run old arcade games such as "Pac Man" and "Galaxian.
[June 27, 2002, 8:36]
Eye Opener: Microsoft's Living Room War - Part 2
News And, as if there weren't enough competition, last Thursday, set-top box maker Scientific Atlanta announced a deal with ICTV to put allow users of their Explorer 2000 cable set-top box to play arcade games over the company's high-speed cable...
[September 27, 1999, 14:09]
Laptop Buying Advice
Forum Not interested in shoot 'em ups or fighting games, but arcade and platform games maybe). If you want to play games, what type? No need for games, although if it was able handle playing something like a Sim City game or something that would fill...
[July 15, 2006, 23:33]
The Luncher Awards For 1997
News So, Daniel Bauser, the man behind ICL's excellent bash at Hamley's basement arcade, take a bow and a bottle of ZDNet bubbly, and Happy New Year to you and all the Luncher's readers. The ICL do in Hamley's arcade basement was the best party of the...
[January 2, 1998, 10:39]
