The BBC's Cindy Sui, in Taipei, says the executions come at a time of inflamed public debate about the death penalty following the death of a boy in a video arcade.
As for the latter, just ask yourself how many parents you see in the average video arcade--they're too busy taking their three-year-olds to PG-13 movies--and you know how well this rating scheme works.
It told how the city of Indianapolis has passed an ordinance to block kids from using especially violent video arcade games and how, predictably, an organization called the American Amusement Machine Association has filed suit to stop it.
He allowed employees to turn Atari's lobby into a cross between a video game arcade and the Amazon jungle.
When E3 comes to the sprawling downtown Los Angeles Convention Center, the place is transformed into what may be the world's largest video game arcade--for adults, that is.
It is the work of Mark Turmell, the genius game creator who first received notoriety for NBA Jam, arguably the most popular sports game in arcade and home video console history.
The new agreements with EA and Take-Two will provide fans with a diverse offering of NBA video games, including 5-on-5 simulation and arcade style games that will be available on video game consoles, online, and through mobile devices.
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Just as risky, we learn of an old arcade legend of a video game character named Turbo who left his game and attempted to take over a new, more popular racing game leading to both games getting their plugs pulled.
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Another one of Reid's favorite spots in Moscow is the very small Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, which houses old video games from the Soviet era that you can play.
The first iconic video game character was also the highest-earning arcade game in history.
Existing in a video game universe, Ralph encounters a host of arcade icons.
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Rather than trying to take an interactive story and jam it into a film formula, he and his team at Walt Disney Animation Studios crafted an original story about video game characters set within the world of an arcade.
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The Jace Hall Show has just debuted an arcade machine that contains and plays virtually every video game in the history of the video games.
Even early video games relied entirely on the social space of the arcade and the interactions of teenage boys egging each other on for high scores.
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The console, a modified computer system specially designed for use by gamers, replaced the arcade machine as the dominant means of playing and selling video games long ago.
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Atari's Pong was an arcade game credited with helping kick-start the multi-billion pound video games industry but more recent titles include 'Centipede', 'Missile Command' and Rollercoaster Tycoon'.
On hand in Verizon's room were a quintet from the "PMS Crew, " an all-girl (or is it grrrrl?) team of professional video-gamers showing off the company's Fios-fueled on-demand gaming and Arcade services.
In a nutshell, the bill covers guidelines on the safety requirements, opening hours and restrictions of video arcades, as well as what types of content are forbidden on the then-remaining arcade machines.
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