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Cruis’n Blast Arcade Now Available
We’ve been covering the latest edition of Cruis’n for a little while now and earlier this week, I received confirmation from Betson (a major arcade game distributor) that they have received Cruis’n Blast units
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Location News: Playland-Not-At-The-Beach Needs Help; New D&B In Ontario, CAN
Playland-Not-At-The-Beach In San Francisco, CA Looking For Funding (Thanks to Jdevy for the tip) On occasion we hear about non-profit arcades. They are certainly uncommon as the operating costs for any arcade tends to
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Bandai Namco’s Fishing Spirits Gets A Pokémon Sun & Moon Promotion In Japan
Good morning all! Just a quick news item here. The Fishing Spirits/Pokémon Cross Promotion You might recall a few IAAPA’s ago that Bandai Namco had brought their own fishing videmption game to the West.
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Arcade Heroes Turns 10 Years Old
Arcade Heroes Turns 10 Today! It’s December 3rd and unlike some previous years, I made sure to remember that this is an important day in this site’s history. Back on Dec. 3rd 2006 is
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Colorized Pinball Updates: Cactus Canyon; Family Guy; Congo; Dracula
Developments to colorize older monochromatic pinball machines continues apace thanks to the ColorDMD company. Since it has been a little while, here are the latest games to enjoy the wonderful world of color dots:
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IAAPA 2016 Part 5: Virtual and Augmented Reality; Simulators; Bowling
IAAPA 2016: Final Coverage To finish our IAAPA 2016 coverage, we will close with what many in the video game industry as a whole is betting on being the ‘next big thing’. Thanks to
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Newsbytes: Skycurser; Soul Reverse Arcade; Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots Arcade
Welcome To The Latest Newsbytes If you are new to the site, welcome. Thanks for following us for your arcade news. The Newsbytes posts are generally something we run on Saturday to compile quick
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IAAPA 2016 PART 4: Pinball; Videmption
It’s been a week since IAAPA 2016 closed up but there’s more to cover so with this post, let’s check out Pinball and some of the Videmption/Redemption games as seen at the event! Previous
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IAAPA 2016 Part 3 – Gun Games; Rhythm Games
Continuing our IAAPA 2016 coverage, today we are going to focus on two categories of titles found at the show last week: Gun games, Rhythm games. I was going to put Pinball here too
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New Arcades: Kongs of Kings(UK); Soda Parlor(TN); D&B (MD)
Business hasn’t come to a halt amidst IAAPA, so let’s take a breather from that to shine a light on some new arcades opening up out there. Kongs of Kings Opening A Bar/Arcade In
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IAAPA 2016 Part 2 – Racing Edition (Daytona 3, Cruis’n Blast, Maximum Tune 5, Ultra Race)
It’s been a busy, busy week with IAAPA 2016 in full swing. Every IAAPA has lots to see and do but this one felt busier than usual. Since video editing is consuming my time,
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IAAPA Day 1: Impressions on Daytona 3, Cruis’n Blast, The Walking Dead, Maximum Tune 5 & More
Hello fellow arcaders! The biggest week in arcade gaming is upon us and I have been able to get some hands-on time with some of the games! Let’s get to it: IAAPA 2016 First
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