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2 Feb, 2001 |
| * Sega 2001 Coin-Op Games
* Capcom To Offer PCs to Arcades
* Moody's Downgrade Sega
* Banpresto Announces Internet Prize Games
* Salaryman As Star?
* Konami "Sniper" on Test
* Sega To Manufacture/Sell Newest "Street Fighter" Game |
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1 Feb, 2001 |
| Sega will stop manufacturing Dreamcast at the end of March, 2001, and has announced games which will be seen on Sony and Nintendo platforms. The shutting down of Dreamcast will generate $689 million in extraordinary losses. |
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1 Feb, 2001 |
| Illusion have announced two of their SpeedSports™ racecars were installed at a major entertainment center that recently opened in Anaheim, California. |
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1 Feb, 2001 |
| In one of the biggest tender offers placed by a Japanese firm, Konami will purchase 11.32 million shares of People at a cost of more than $US 600 million. |
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30 Jan, 2001 |
| INSKOR Entertainment Limited announced today that it will launch a new generation of Interactive Entertainment Simulator (IES) systems for the Out-Of-Home entertainment market. |
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29 Jan, 2001 |
| The minimum amount gamblers can put into some poker machines in Australia could rise to $10 under a plan to modify machines so they no longer accept $5 notes. |
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29 Jan, 2001 |
| Fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. and computer maker Compaq Computer Corp. have developed a computer system so that kids can play the latest video games in McDonald's restaurants. |
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29 Jan, 2001 |
| As Sega trys to return to profitability, news filters through that Sega will be dropping the Dreamcast platform and develop software for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. |
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29 Jan, 2001 |
| With the help of a new management team, VisionLand amusement park, which at one point owed $3.2 million and was on the verge of bankruptcy, has shown a return to profits. |
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27 Jan, 2001 |
| Big Buck Hunter, Incredible Technologies' newest coin-op video game, is now in full production and shipping to distribution. Developed in conjunction with Play Mechanix, Big Buck Hunter has been thoroughly tested throughout the USA with strong results. |
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