Love playing games? Got a game room you’re proud of? Make it even more fun with GameRoom Magazine! From pinball and coin-op collecting news and reviews to help on designing the perfect room for family fun, discover why GameRoom is the world’s #1 magazine devoted to the most entertaining room in the house!
Entering its 19th year of publication, GameRoom has always been a hobbyist magazine focused primarily on coin-op collecting. But now they've expanded the focus to include “anything and everything” related to home game rooms, including topics such as billiards, home arcade gaming, darts, foosball, and even decorating tips for game rooms. From building the perfect home bar to selecting the perfect poker table, GameRoom will cover anything and everything related to the home game room: old, new, and everything in between.
GameRoom magazine, based in Cleveland, Ohio is part of the Steele Publishing, LLC media family (which includes one of our favorite home arcade web sites RetroBlast.com). It reaches collectors worldwide and is the leading publication of its kind. GameRoom regularly features articles covering pinball machines, arcade video, jukeboxes, arcade games and other coin-operated collectibles.
Independent game development continues to grow each year offering game experiences that you simply can't find anywhere else. Now you can even make your own games own games for the Xbox 360.
In 2002 GameTunnel started hosting the Indie Game of the Year Awards, Mutant Storm won that year and can now be played on Xbox Live arcade on the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles.
The 2006 winners have been compiled, will the next Xbox® Live Arcade or Nintendo® Wii's™ Virtual Arcade game come from this year's winner's?
Those of us lucky enough to get a Wii™ on launch day have probably already saved the Twilight Princess and are jonesing for more time controlling everyone's favorite sword-wielding elf. If you are new to the Zelda series, the Wii's Virtual Console now has most of the popular Zelda classics available for download. Don't let the 2D old-school graphics fool you, you don't want to miss them!
But for those of us who think we have played every worthwhile Zelda title, think again! After four years of work by dozens of contributors, The Legend of Zelda™: Parallel Worlds is a massive hack of the SNES' Link to the Past. It's a completely new story, new overworld and dungeon maps, new items, new characters and a new interface which make this more like a full-on sequel than a simple sprite hack. The result is a brand new Zelda adventure that you can play right now! Download it now before the Nintendo® lawyers inevitably force it into the underground.
When you think Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right B, A, Start, you immediately think Contra™! And while all of the sequels were great in their own right, none have come as close to the original as this one...
Contra™ 20th Anniversary Edition is actually a near perfect flash remake of the 8-bit classic. It plays almost identical in every aspect, with only minor differences to remind you that it's not the real deal. Best of all it's FREE and you can play it right now in your web browser!
Ever wondered who would win in a fight between characters from Street Fighter™ Vs. those from Mortal Kombat™? Prepare yourself for one of the most talked about fights of the century, as Ryu of Street Fighter fame takes on Mortal Kombat's™ merciless fighter from hell... Scorpion! Press play to watch the craziest fight ever imagined, that sadly ends by an unfair cheat.
Sony® Comes Home
While Sony® has not been able to get much of anything right so far in the next-gen gaming war, they have revealed something that may just put them back in the race. Welcome to the Playstation™ Home.
The Miis just got pwned, and suddenly Live seems slightly lifeless and cold.
TV Links compiled this list of 13 episodes of the cartoon series that originally aired in 1989 and 1990. If you missed it, this is your chance to check it out.
So you've played classic games with MAME™, maybe even played some console emulators. But it's amazing how many gamers are not aware of the other, other type of game emulation...Pinball games!
Pinball games you say, how can you emulate a game that's all hardware? The answer is that with Pinball emulators they recreate the real arcade pinball games using 3D modeling so precisely that you can hardly tell the difference from the real deal. It also uses Advanced Physics to provide the best possible Simulation of a true to life pinball machine. You can even edit and create your own pinball tables!
PinMAME, Visual Pinball and Future Pinball are the software that can be used to play these pinball games. You will find the emulation software and tables downloadable for them on their respective websites.
All current X-Arcade™ controllers have pinball buttons on them. And though you cannot use mouse clicks as flipper buttons in the software, we have created an easy to use program to allow you to do so.
