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Newsbytes: Predators; NBA Jam Book; Galaga Chronicles; Golden Tee 2018; ColorDMD Updates

Newsbytes: Predators; NBA Jam Book; Galaga Chronicles; Golden Tee 2018; ColorDMD Updates

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Welcome to the last weekend of July. CAX and ReplayFX are in full swing so if you have the chance to attend, soak up every minute of it! Let’s end the month on some

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Spooky Pinball Unveils Total Nuclear Annihilation Pinball

Spooky Pinball Unveils Total Nuclear Annihilation Pinball

arcadehero July 28, 2017 1

As a “boutique” creator of pinball machines, Wisconsin-based Spooky Pinball LLC may not get all of the media attention that the big guys get. Fortunately, they are still busy making new concepts for locations

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Meet ICE’s New Game: Screw Ball and watch me get the Jackpot while playing it

Meet ICE’s New Game: Screw Ball and watch me get the Jackpot while playing it

SaraAB87 July 28, 2017 1

Recently I had the opportunity to play ICE’s, new game, Screw Ball. This game is now for sale so it should be showing up at arcades soon if it has not already. I found

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Sega World Drivers Championship 2018 Begins Testing

Sega World Drivers Championship 2018 Begins Testing

arcadehero July 28, 2017 1

Last week news broke that Sega had a new racing arcade game in the works by the name of Sega World Drivers Championship 2018. Now a week later the game has been placed on

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New Arcades: Eighty Three (OK); Play Arcade & Bar (FL); Lucky Strike Social (HI); Main Event (TN & DE); Scene 75 (OH); Taito Station (Japan); DNA VR (UK); Escape Reality (DE);

New Arcades: Eighty Three (OK); Play Arcade & Bar (FL); Lucky Strike Social (HI); Main Event (TN & DE); Scene 75 (OH); Taito Station (Japan); DNA VR (UK); Escape Reality (DE);

arcadehero July 28, 2017 0

It’s been a few weeks since our last look at new arcade businesses opening their doors so let’s clear the backlog and get you up-to-date with the latest venues that will offer new amusements

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Get Ready – California Extreme (CA) & Replay FX (PA) This Weekend

Get Ready – California Extreme (CA) & Replay FX (PA) This Weekend

arcadehero July 27, 2017 1

July is almost over (booooo!) and while this means we’ll soon be in the “dog days” of Summer, it also means that gamers on both the East and West coast of the United States

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Let’s Unbox The Walking Dead Arcade Game

Let’s Unbox The Walking Dead Arcade Game

arcadehero July 27, 2017 2

It has been a little while since I did an arcade “unboxing” – a little over a year in fact when I unboxed and installed a World Tour Foosball table by Barron Games. I

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Preview: Cosmotrons Indie Arcade Game

Preview: Cosmotrons Indie Arcade Game

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We first found out about the up-and-coming indie arcade game by the name of Cosmotrons when it was seen at Midwest Gaming Classic event this past March. As development progressed for that title, the

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AR Comes To Bumper Cars With HADO Kart

AR Comes To Bumper Cars With HADO Kart

arcadehero July 24, 2017 1

I had intended on posting about the Cosmotrons Game Tour but the video editing process ended up taking up a bit more time than expected so I will save that for tomorrow. In the

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Star Wars Pro Pinball Machines Beginning To Show Up ‘In The Wild’

Star Wars Pro Pinball Machines Beginning To Show Up ‘In The Wild’

arcadehero July 21, 2017 1

As expected, whenever Stern shows off a new title, within the next month or so the first units begin to ship out. Their most recent release is Star Wars, which in case you hadn’t

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Sega Japan Reveals SEGA World Drivers Championship 2018

Sega Japan Reveals SEGA World Drivers Championship 2018

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Developers are always working on something new and in the case of Sega, you can usually assume that more than one arcade racing game is in development at the company. They have a long

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The Strong Museum of Play Exhibits Review July 2017 – Have a Ball, Raceway, Pinball Playfields and EGameRevolution.

The Strong Museum of Play Exhibits Review July 2017 – Have a Ball, Raceway, Pinball Playfields and EGameRevolution.

SaraAB87 July 20, 2017 0

I recently had a chance to visit the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY and Participate in their summer of 2017 exhibits. There are 2 new exhibits at the museum that both feature

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