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Go Play Opening Tomorrow in Belmar, NJ
We receive news of new arcades opening all year round although not too many seem to happen on the week of Christmas. Still, there are often “out-of-your-control” items that tend to happen – permits,
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Newsbag: Pinball Updates; Level 257 Update; More
Tis’ the weekend before Christmas and thus new game news is going to be rather slow but that doesn’t stop the internet for giving us a few things to chat about. There are a
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The Pinball Game of Your Memes: Internet Meme Pinball
Earlier this year we ran a story about a UK company that developed a way to charge Bitcoins on coin-op arcade machines. Now Liberty Games is back with a pinball project that is self-explanatory
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Arcade Location News: Super Arcade Moves; Hollywood Connection (UT) Closes
‘Tis a day for some arcade location news. First off… Super Arcade (Walnut, CA) To Move Locations – Thanks to CD ageS for the tip on this; Shoryuken.com has an interview with the owner
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Time Crisis 5 To Debut At EAG2015
I have never been to any of the trade shows in London but always in January there is an event or two that focuses on arcades and related amusements. It was through coverage on
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Newsbag: The Hobbit Pinball Update; Razion; Brewcade in SF
Happy weekend everyone, no matter where you are hopefully the weather isn’t too bad and you can go out an play some arcade games! What am I playing this week? – We used to
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Stern Pinball’s The Walking Dead Is Getting A Premium Version
When Stern Pinball announced The Walking Dead Pinball back in September, there was one peculiar thing about the announcement – there was no Premium version. For the past few years, the release schedules have
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Robotron:2084 Getting An Official Update In 2015 – The “Tie-Die” ROMSet
It is common knowledge that the software versions in every single arcade release are not always equal – while games were in production, problems would be discovered and reported so developers would offer patches/code
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So You Want To Open Up An Arcade: What About “Profit-Sharing”?
Among articles people said they liked reading on the site, stuff that hits the “inside baseball” string of the industry seem to be of high interest. I have people asking me about this particular
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In Case of Zombies: Doe of the Dead Coming To Big Buck HD Arcade Games In 2015
Not long ago, Play Mechanix held their annual World Championship for their Big Buck HD arcade game, where thousands of dollars in prizes (around $64,000) were given away to the best Big Buck players
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Newsbag: Homebrew Arcade; Darius Store; New Sega Rhythm Game “Chunithm” In Japan
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done the newsbag of collecting some stories for a quick look as I’ve been busy with the IAAPA stuff but with that past, let’s get back at!
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IAAPA 2014 Mega-Post: The Latest Arcade Games Coming To The West
With this post I can finally breath a sigh of relief as it means that my IAAPA 2014 coverage is wrapped up. The amount of video to edit and comment on was significant this
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