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Location Watch December 2023: New Arcades For The Holidays
Welcome to Location Watch, an occasional series of posts that focus on brand new arcade businesses that have opened their doors recently. We cover them from any part of the world, splitting the news
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VR 360 Action Launches Crazy Racing
For locations in the market for a new motion racing simulator, VR 360 Action has a solution called Crazy Racing. This is a multi-game, race-focused simulator. Let’s see what it is all about: Crazy
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Arcana Heart 3 Xtend Now Shipping In Japan; Western Pre-Orders Open
exA-Arcadia has released Team Arcana’s Arcade Heart 3 Love Max Six Stars Xtend in Japan, with Western pre-orders now up. Let’s look into the details: What Is Arcana Heart? The Arcana Heart series is
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Bullseye Crackshot Now Shipping To Arcades
First shown at Bowl Expo with the production model on display at IAAPA 2023, Coastal Amusements is ready to ship their latest arcade video game, Bullseye Crack Shot. Let’s take a look at this
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New Games Aplenty For 2024: Wrapping Up IAAPA 2023
It’s been a few weeks since IAAPA 2023 took place and in that time, I’ve slowly been working through the many companies and games that made their grand debut at the show. This post
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Newsbytes: Street Fighter 6 Type Arcade; Men In Black; Headlines
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post that curates quick news from around the world of arcades and pinball machines. There isn’t a ton of news to chew on this time, but just enough to have
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Next Up From Spooky Pinball: Looney Tunes & Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Spooky Pinball has announced their next two games which will lead them into 2024: Looney Tunes and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As pinball companies often do, the information was released in a staggered way, making
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IAAPA 2023: The UNIS Round-up
Next up for our IAAPA recap is UNIS. Based out of China with offices in Canada and the US, they tend to have a large booth space with a strong focus on redemption. That
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Arcade Heroes Turns 17
Seventeen years ago today, an intrepid creator in the arcade industry known as “PointyThing” created this site, Arcade Heroes. He did so as at the time, there was very little reporting being done to
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Newsbytes: Nova Blast City; Big Buck Update; Goldstorm Pirates & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, an occasional post that curates quick bytes of news from around the arcade, pinball, and amusement world. Due to the deluge of news coming out of IAAPA 2023, this series has
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IAAPA 2023: New games From Wahlap & Amusement Source International
The next company to receive our IAAPA 2023 focus is on Wahlap and Amusement Source International. Wahlap is based in Guangzhou, China, while ASI is setup in Texas. I need to stress that they
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IAAPA 2023: Coastal Amusements Recap
Next up for our IAAPA recap is Coastal Amusements. Based in New Jersey, Coastal has long supported a mix of cranes, redemption, and videmption pieces in their line-ups. They’ve been increasing in the latter,
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