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Stern Pinball Announces Led Zeppelin
The battle of bands continues in the pinball space, as Stern Pinball has announced their first title for 2021, and the theme hearkens back to another influential rock band from ages past. While I’m
Read More »Insert Coin Documentary About Midway Launches On Virtual Limited Release
Meant to launch this past Spring, the documentary by Joshua Tsui about the glory days of Midway and their arcade developments (mainly during the 1990s) is now seeing a limited release through “Alamo On-Demand
Read More »UNIS Releases Crazy Ride, Space Invaders Counter Attack & Pogo Jump In North America
This would have been a week full of new game announcements and videos were taken at IAAPA 2020. Since that was canceled, I wasn’t really expecting anything to discuss such games right now (although
Read More »Kevin Williams: The SEGA Situation
Let’s start the week with an opinion piece, where site friend and industry specialist Kevin Williams weighs in on what’s been happening with SEGA over in Japan. Take it away, Kevin: Opinion Piece: The
Read More »ICE Launches New Home-Focused Arcade Product Line, ARCADE PRO
[I meant to post this much earlier, but working on my second location got a bit ahead of me today] It’s an age of change and adaptation, which has been a concern for companies
Read More »The AAMA 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting Gets Underway
We’re in the age of non-physical, totally virtual tradeshow events – whether or not that will continue on into 2021 remains to be seen, but it’s the reality for most events right now. Normally
Read More »The IAAPA 2020 Physical Event Has Been Canceled
When the IAAPA organization announced that they would be holding their physical trade show event in Orlando this November, there was plenty of skepticism that it would actually take place. While many vendors did
Read More »Will Chuck E. Cheeses Survive?
I’m not leading this story with the headline “Chuck E. Cheeses files for bankruptcy,” as it seems to be taken incorrectly by some. Unfortunately, I’ve found that many “readers” on both Facebook and Twitter
Read More »Newsbytes: Billy Mitchell Victory; Pac-Man Collection; Delta Mission; WB Games Sale? & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curation of arcade content from around the web that is generally run on the weekends. While a lot of general news in 2020 has been terrible, to say the least,
Read More »Game Updates: Nitro Trucks; Heavy Metal & Hot Wheels Pinball; ValoClimb; Fozzy Football; Voxel; Monopoly
We haven’t had many updates on game content to discuss as of late, as most titles have been stuck in development hiatus hell thanks to the pandemic. Today seems to be showing a shift
Read More »June 3rd, 2020 – Sega Marks 60 Years Of Gaming
60 years ago today, Sega was formed by a trio of partners looking to supply amusement needs to other businesses in Japan. “The rest is history” as they say, and to celebrate the people
Read More »Tokyo Joypolis Rides In First Person
In lieu of hard arcade news right now, let’s highlight something that would normally go into a Newsbytes post. Last week, the Tokyo Joypolis YouTube account posted some videos of their rides in first
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