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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 3:01PM hvnlysoldr said

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What would be funny is if Namco uses the Cell in the Triforce arcades. Imagine a Mario Kart running on Cell.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 3:05PM (Unverified) said

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Yay. Another Tekken game... note my enthusiasm.

Original Arcade games plz, kthxbai.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 5:08PM (Unverified) said

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.....what the hell is that picture of? It's creeping me out.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 5:06PM (Unverified) said

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Actually the first use of the cell was for medical imaging. by Mercury computer systems.

http://www.mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=37&type=systems
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 3:51PM (Unverified) said

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In the official announcement over on gamasutra, they mention Tekken 6 is the first of many.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 4:29PM (Unverified) said

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Just curious..what is the processor they usually use these days in arcades? Never thought about it before.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 4:29PM (Unverified) said

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Sorry to nitpick, but this definitely isn't the first commercial use of a Cell processor outside of PS3. Mercury makes a few products, including a blade server and accelerator board, based on the Cell Broadband Engine, and IBM announced their own CBE based blades earlier this year. Toshiba has also stated that they will eventually be using Cell's for their high end displays, although there has been no specific product announcement that I am aware of.

The article says that this is the first arcade game to use Cell, which is probably true. To say otherwise isn't right.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 4:33PM (Unverified) said

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It's good to hear that an arcade machine will be up to the home console standards.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 4:37PM beckerist said

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My friend and I were just talking today about the death of the arcade. Maybe there's a bit of life left after all!
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 4:49PM symmetryx said

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rfom,

If you're talking about Namco, then it kinda varies.
The system 256 runs Tekken 5 and such, as you can see in the link. I don't know if SC2 uses naomi series boards, but the first one did, if I'm not mistaken.

I'd like to see more Lindbergh cabinets, personally. Virtua Tennis 3, Virtua Fighter 5, and HoTD4 look amazing.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 4:50PM (Unverified) said

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Not in the states there isn't. Now if arcades started taking on the community styles aspect of Japanese arcades, then yeah. But all the Namco Time-Outs, Tilts, and Chuck E Cheese's have officially raped the arcades of the old days, people crowded around the new machine, as arcade champs pound away on each other.

Ahhh, the good old days. Pepsi in the cup holder, tokens in a pile, Hand on each poystiq, and Sega's Virtual On logo flashing before my eager eyes.
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Posted: Mar 26th 2007 5:16PM (Unverified) said

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".....what the hell is that picture of? It's creeping me out."

That's the "special" edition of Tekken 5...
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Posted: Mar 27th 2007 1:56AM The Punisher said

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I guess we can count Tekken 6 coming to the Xbox 360. That's too bad, but you never know, it may still come out. One can only hope.
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Posted: Mar 27th 2007 1:57AM The Punisher said

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Make that count out Tekken 6 to the xbox 360
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Posted: Mar 27th 2007 5:56PM (Unverified) said

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The photo is, oddly enough, a Photoshopped photo of Official Xbox Magazine's Dan Amrich. Was this intentional?

http://bunnyears.net/dan/?p=138
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