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Legends Arcade Entertainment Calendar Week 44 – Eight arcade and pinball games highlighted

The Week 44 Legends Arcade Entertainment Calendar is out. Each week, AtGames brings a new entertainment guide for the Legends Arcade Platform, found only on Legends Arcade Family. This entertainment guide is your personalized tour for the current week’s universal global leaderboard game highlights, competition, and firmware update release notes.

With this entertainment guide, they cover their universal weekly leaderboard competition that consists of different themes based on genre. The themes for this week are:

Pinball ClassicsArcade ClassicsFamily ClassicsArcade GemsArcadeNet®

Each new entertainment guide finishes off with the week’s firmware update release notes, which concisely lists any new technical features and optimizations.

The following games are highlighted:

Haunted House and Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinPlotting and The Ninja KidsBurgerTimeLiberator and Tryout

What follows are a few images of some of the games running on the Legends Ultimate with Pixelcade.

Plotting on the Legends Ultimate



BurgerTime on the Legends Ultimate



Liberator on the Legends Ultimate



Tryout on the Legends Ultimate

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Get Kingdom: Classic for Steam for free!

We’re giving away FREE copies of Kingdom: Classic for one week in the Humble Store! This promotion is available from Monday, November 2nd at 10 a.m. Pacific time to Monday, November 9th at 10 a.m. Pacific time or while supplies last.

Here’s the link to get your free copy of the game!

Kingdom: Classic

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Legends Arcade Entertainment Calendar Week 43 for Legends Ultimate and Legends Gamer series

Legends Arcade Entertainment Calendar Week 43 is now out and includes Legends Universal Firmware v5.8 for all Legends Ultimate and Legends Gamer home arcade systems running on the Legends Arcade Platform. You can read all about the week’s games here.

The games featured in this week’s leaderboard contest are:

Pinball Classics: Flight 2000, Frank Thomas’ Big Hurt

Arcade Classics: Liquid Kids, Nastar Warrior, Qix

Family Classics:  Fix-It Felix Jr.

Arcade Gems: Burnin’ Rubber, Lock ‘N’ Chase

ArcadeNet®: Vanguard

You can see those games and more in action running on a Legends Ultimate 1.0 with, in most cases, a Pixelcade active marquee:

Liquid Kids



Nastar Warrior



Qix



Fix-It Felix Jr.



Burnin’ Rubber



Lock ‘N’ Chase



Vanguard



SpaceRamp

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Legends Universal Firmware v5.7 now out – Arcade entertainment agenda and leaderboard games

Legends Universal Firmware v5.7 (Oct 21, 2020) for all Legends Arcade Family products, including the full-size Legends Ultimate home arcade and the Legends Gamer Pro, is now out! You can read about this week’s entertainment agenda here, which includes the latest summaries and universal global leaderboard competition info for the following games:

pAOX: Space RampPC Pinball (Steam): GladiatorsBuilt-in Games: Crazy Balloon, KiKi Kai Kai, Pinbo, Rod-Land, Saint DragonArcadeNet®: Guerilla War

Crazy Balloon on the Legends Ultimate running PixelcadeX



KiKi Kai Kai on the Legends Ultimate running PixelcadeX



Pinbo on the Legends Ultimate running PixelcadeX



Rod-Land on the Legends Ultimate running PixelcadeX



Saint Dragon on the Legends Ultimate running PixelcadeX

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More details on the full-size Legends Pinball, virtual pinball machine, revealed – out soon!

AtGames has released more details on their upcoming Legends Pinball machine, which is part of the Legends Arcade Family of products running on the Legends Arcade Platform. You can check out the Legends Pinball web page here.

To summarize, it has 22 licensed Gottlieb pinball tables built-in, 60FPS performance, a huge 32″ HD playfield, a large 15.6″ LCD backglass, all kinds of connectivity and expansion options, the ability to play/add more tables and games, and more. All that, and it’s going to retail for just $599, with pre-orders starting mid-November for shipping at the end of December.

Legends Pinball (pre-production)

While competing virtual pinball machines from other companies have already been announced (with only one of the 3/4 scale Toy Shock machines actually already out), it looks like none of the others come close to the features, size, or scope of this machine.

The Facebook fan page has more info, and there’s even a dedicated Legends Pinball fan page. Both Facebook groups also have links to the various YouTube influencer videos that have even more information on this upcoming machine.

Legends Arcade Family (so far)

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Legends Universal Firmware 5.5 now out with 7 new TAITO universal global leaderboard games – Space Invaders, Zoo Keeper, Gun Frontier, etc.

The weekly firmware release for Legends Arcade Family home arcade products, including the full-size Legends Ultimate and transportable Legends Gamer Pro, is now available. Version 5.5’s major new additions are seven TAITO arcade games with universal global leaderboard support. Those games are:

Gun FrontierRaimaisSpace InvadersThe Electric Yo-YoThe Fairyland StoryThe Ninja KidsZoo Keeper

What follows are images of each of the games running on the Legends Ultimate with Pixelcade/BitPixel LED marquee and the PixelcadeX app:

Gun Frontier



Raimais



Space Invaders



The Electric Yo-Yo



The Fairyland Story



The Ninja Kids



Zoo Keeper

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Legends Universal Firmware 5.4 now out – TAITO Arcade Game Pack 2, virtual pinball updates, new leaderboard games, and more!

The latest AtGames Legends Universal Firmware update for Legends Arcade Family products running the Legends Arcade Platform, including the Legends Ultimate full-size home arcade and Legends Gamer Pro arcade control top, is now out. Here are the highlights for version 5.4:

New and expanded universal leaderboards.Taito Game Pack 2 now available, which, when combined with Game Pack 1, totals 47 additional built-in games for Legends Ultimate 1.0 owners.Legends Ultimate 1.1 and Legends Gamer owners now have all built-in games accessible and optimized.pAOX1.2 featuring Team Play for The Leprechaun King.

You can read the full release notes and the rest of the details, here.

New Taito universal global leaderboard games added. Compete for an online high score (https://www.atgames.net/arcadenet/leaderboards):

Bubble Bobble  – The beloved 1986 arcade platformer is back and lets up to two simultaneous players take control of small dragons, Bub and Bob, on a quest to rescue their girlfriends in the Cave of Monsters. There are 100 levels total of bubble blowing (and popping!) fun.

Bubble Bobble running on the Legends Ultimate with the PixelcadeX app and marquee



The marquee even has a nifty associated animation for Bubble Bobble



Qix  – Pronounced “Kicks,” this abstract 1981 arcade puzzle game challenges you to draw lines (Stix) to close off parts of a rectangle to ultimately fill-in a majority of the playfield. You’ll need to avoid the titular Qix and persistent Sparx if you want to close off enough of a level to advance. It’s a tough title to master, but one whose unique gameplay keeps you coming back for more!

Qix running on the Legends Ultimate with the PixelcadeX app and marquee

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Competition: AtGames Build Your Own Legends (BYOL) using the Legends Connect SBC

AtGames has announced the following competition via their Facebook page:

Do you have an amazing idea for a home arcade project? If so, we have great news! AtGames is sponsoring the first Build Your Own Legends (BYOL) competition. Selected individuals OR teams will be provided a Legends Connect board as well as a budget of $300 to create their own Legends device, which will be evaluated by a designated AtGames BYOL Panel. See the official rules on the Legends Connect web page for full details of how you or your team can participate. We look forward to seeing lots of great submissions built around The Ultimate Single Board Arcade Solution, Legends Connect.

The Legends Connect product page is here, along with the competition guidelines.

Submit your idea, get approved, then get those prototyping boards and soldering irons ready!

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New single board home arcade solution revealed – Legends Connect

AtGames has revealed a new single board solution called the Legends Connect. This new board has the Legends Arcade Platform operating system and ecosystem built-in and comes with 20 onboard licensed arcade and console games (manual).

The Legends Connect can be used to drive all kinds of full-size, scale, cocktail, countertop, console, virtual pinball, and other projects, and also works as a replacement for the mainboards in Pandora’s Box 6 and 9D series systems (refer to the FAQ and Application Note AN-101: Pandora’s Box Compatibility for more info).

Legends Connect

AtGames is promising more info about the Legends Connect soon, as well as specific related events.

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AtGames and TAITO Corporation Announce a Partnership to Create Original Virtual Pinball Tables Based on Legendary Classic Arcade Video Game Properties to Be Available Exclusively on the AtGames Legends Arcade Platform

Press Release:

LOS ANGELES, September 28, 2020 (Newswire.com) – AtGames ®, a leader in interactive entertainment products, today announced that classic TAITO arcade properties will be featured in new virtual pinball tables for the AtGames Legends Arcade Family of products running on the Legends Arcade Platform.

The TAITO arcade properties that will be developed into exciting new original virtual pinball tables exclusively for play on Legends Arcade Platform products like the Legends Ultimate, Legends Gamer, and Legends Pinball include Arkanoid, Bubble Bobble, Elevator Action, Chack’n Pop, Darius, Front Line, Operation Wolf, Rainbow Islands, Rastan Saga, Space Invaders, The Legend of Kage, and Zoo Keeper.

“These beloved TAITO arcade properties, with their iconic characters and play mechanics, make perfect candidates for fun, new original virtual pinball table creations,” says Dr. Ping-Kang Hsiung, CEO of AtGames. “We look forward to working with TAITO on making these virtual pinball tables as memorable as their iconic inspirations.”

This new initiative builds on the previous partnership between the two companies to make TAITO’s extensive library of classic arcade video games available on a range of exciting new home arcade products, complete with authentic gameplay, video, and sound.  The first such products to feature TAITO’s arcade classics are the Legends Ultimate full-size home arcade and Legends Gamer wireless tabletop arcades. 

“We look forward to continuing the partnership with AtGames on this fun new line of virtual pinball tables,” says Tetsu Yamada, president and representative director of TAITO Corporation. “Our classic arcade properties will continue to be a showcase on the company’s popular home arcade and pinball hardware platforms.”

The new virtual pinball tables based on iconic TAITO arcade properties are expected to start to appear on AtGames Legends Arcade Family products in early 2021.

About AtGames:

AtGames (http://www.atgames.net) is a leader in innovative consumer-oriented interactive entertainment products. The company leverages the latest technology to develop and publish its best-selling classic video game products for worldwide distribution. AtGames is based in Los Angeles, with international offices in Taipei and Shenzhen.

About TAITO:

TAITO Corporation (TAITO) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. With headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, TAITO operates core businesses such as game arcade operations, coin-operated game machines, and mobile phone content services. A seminal part of gaming history, TAITO caused a worldwide sensation with its arcade legend, SPACE INVADERS, and developed such fan favorites as PUZZLE BOBBLE (BUST-A-MOVE) and ARKANOID. Today, TAITO continues to thrill game lovers of all generations by offering both classic and new family-oriented titles on the latest gaming platforms. TAITO delivers a wide range of entertainment experiences with the goal of providing consumers with fresh surprises and new discoveries.

More information on TAITO can be found on the Internet at https://www.taito.co.jp/en.​

Source: AtGames®

Arkanoid is just one of several potential upcoming virtual pinball tables.

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