arcade

X-Arcade Trackball: Retro cool

Crave Many of us will remember wasting our youth in a sweaty arcade, pumping 20p's into Tempest until some hollow victory was attained in the form of a high score. So an arcade machine packed with classics such as Asteroids, Battle Command and Gravitar...

Tags: x-arcade, arcade, xbox, atari

30 January 2006, 10:52

Guy's Christmas Shopping: Arcade cabinet

Crave That's why I've opted for an old-school arcade cabinet, hollowed out and filled to the brim with classic 20p-guzzlers. There are two ways of getting this arcade perfection in your home. You could go to some enterprising young cabinet maker, who'll...

Tags: arcade, sort, pre, christmas

7 December 2005, 11:11

GP2X: Handheld gaming gets even geekier

Crave More interestingly for gamers, it's compatible with the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) standard, so you can use it to play all your favourite arcade titles. There's far too much choice when it comes to snazzy handheld multimedia and gaming...

Tags: arcade, resolution, portable, gaming

16 March 2006, 12:12

The five best game console controllers of all time

Crave If we were feeling particularly daring, we might say it heralded the death of the arcade. This was the first controller to have shoulder buttons -- a revolution that made an arcade staple like Street Fighter II a viable proposition in the home.

22 May 2007, 12:30

New Super Mario Bros.: Sneak preview

Crave Mario made his first appearance in 1981's Donkey Kong arcade game. In the years since, Mario has changed professions (from carpenter to plumber), his name (from Jumpman to Mario), temporarily moved home (from The Mushroom Kingdom to Brooklyn...

Tags: nintendo, force, lite, ds

24 May 2006, 12:14

N-Gage platform launched: All your phones are belong to us

Crave Today Nokia officially launched the N-Gage platform, an Xbox Live Arcade-style system that lets you download games and interact with other players, all via a compatible Nokia phone. At the moment you can download it for the Nokia N81, N81 8GB, N82...

Tags: platform, playing, air, gaming

7 April 2008, 15:44

Photos: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 hands-on

Crave When a camera boasts a spec sheet as impressive as the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3, we'd be happy to be introduced to it in the arcade at Butlins. So it was a bonus that we saw it in Monte Carlo instead, hence the very un-London skies in our pictures.

21 July 2008, 14:58

Photos: Packard Bell presents EasyNote XS, MB, SB and SJ

Crave Alongside the plentiful cocktails, pool tables and arcade games, PB found time to show off a few new laptops, including the EasyNote XS, MB, SB and SJ. Packard Bell held its annual 'Christmas in July' event yesterday, which was more appropriate...

12 July 2007, 12:45

Xbox 360 Wireless Adaptor: Life without the grey cables

Crave Perhaps even more revolutionary than the hi-def graphics (which PC gamers have had for years), it's the Xbox Live service that's miles ahead of anything else at the moment, integrating online gaming, downloadable demos and the Xbox Live Arcade...

Tags: microsoft, video files, wireless, gaming

31 January 2006, 10:59

Ridge Racer 6: fast and furious

Crave The gameplay is exactly the same as the previous five iterations, with the nitrous boost from the PSP bringing some much-needed strategy to the arcade racing. A console launch without a Ridge Racer game is like Christmas without a turkey.

Tags: electronic arts, psp, racing, single player

23 January 2006, 10:35

Snowboard? No, snow excited: SSX On Tour for the PSP

Crave Electronic Arts has done an impressive job of translating the look and feel of real-world snowboarding into the physics of an arcade game. It's that time of year again; you phone up to book a week snowboarding in Whistler only to discover that your...

Tags: electronic arts, psp, life, snow

19 October 2005, 12:20

Camera memory madness: Toshiba and Eye-Fi

Crave Find yourself a Microsoft Surface, a retro arcade-looking Vista-equipped coffee table that allows you to place your camera on the top and wirelessly download your pictures. Got a digital camera with the capacity to take hundreds, nay thousands, of...

Tags: toshiba, wi fi, fi, capacity

29 June 2007, 13:00

Hands-on with the Olympus E-3: A pro dSLR that isn't scary

Crave We got the hang of the arcade game-style multi-button combos without opening the manual -- something we couldn't say about, for example, the Nikon D300. It was a while coming, but the Olympus E-3 was launched late last year and arrived at Crave...

Tags: olympus, field, compact, manufacturers

27 February 2008, 10:26

Crave Talk: Pin-stripe rebel -- the PC at 25

Crave They started to sprout graphics, crude at first but with increasing sophistication, and a sense of style that often eluded the arcade-flavour pixelfests on the more unbuttoned platforms. Even when it was new, it was middle-aged.

Tags: ibm, gaming, computing, playstation

18 August 2006, 14:55

PlayStation 3: Hands-on with Sony's new console

Crave The PlayStation Store offers downloadable demos, as well as some great fully downloadable games, such as Cash Guns Chaos (a 'tribute' to arcade classic Smash TV), a snip at a mere $7.99 (£4.10). First up: the PlayStation 3 does look very pretty.

Tags: sony, sign, playstation, controller

24 November 2006, 9:37