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Xbox Coming to Arcades

Posted by michael on from the blue-screen-of-quarter-eating dept.

Stanl writes "The San Jose Mercury News reports that Microsoft will be taking Xbox technology into arcades, including a statement that, 'arcade titles influence the kind of console games that fans buy.' That is an interesting unattributed observation."

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  1. They're already there (sort of) by tweakt · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I was in a local arcde walking around and saw an arcade machine being rebooted. I saw the Windows 2000 splash screen come up. I'm not sure but I think it was a standing up jet-ski or speedboat racing game.

    Can anyone confirm this?

    1. Re:They're already there (sort of) by Keith+Russell · · Score: 4, Interesting
      I saw the Windows 2000 splash screen come up. I'm not sure but I think it was a standing up jet-ski or speedboat racing game. Can anyone confirm this?

      Midway had been using Windows 2000 for their racing games, and maybe more. I figured this out when I saw a Hydro Thunder machine with a Blue Screen Of Death. And before anybody gloats, it was INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE, which is, 99% of the time, a hard drive failure.

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