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Pins And Needles, A Pinball Museum In The Heart Of LA
Newsfeed 1285 via Here is a location opening that we should have heard about when it happened around the end of May/beginning of June last year, but as it sometimes happens those announcements go
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Japanese Trailer for Namco’s New Bhutto Burst Kid Game
Some months ago Namco Bandai showed off some pictures of a new concept in what’s known as “kid vending” type games, something that are popular in Japan but not so much here out West.
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Weekend Reads: Pokemon Game, Music video, Light-Gun Game Ban, DNA Seminar
UPDATE: Rebuttal piece to The Boston Globe on the violent arcade games issue added below It’s been a really slow news week but overall its seemed slow in other areas too, at my own
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Stern Pinball Makes An Appearance At CES 2013
[Thanks to for the tip] When I hear of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, I think of the line from TRON: “If you’ve seen one consumer electronics show, you’ve seen them all”. I am
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IGS Launches PGM3 Hardware
Among fans of unique arcade-specific hardware, some despair over the trend where most game companies these days find it easier and more economical to use PC machine builds tied to some sort of specialized
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Namco Entertainment Launching Prototype Eatertainment Arcade Business In Near Future
Newsfeed 1281 via Hot on the heels of news that Namco will be opening up a new theme park in Tokyo later this year comes news that Namco Entertainment (which is the division of
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Namco Opening New Theme Park In Tokyo This Summer; JAEPO Website Launch
Newsfeed 1280 via For our first Stinger newsfeed of the year, they pointed us to a story about the development of a new Namco Bandai indoor theme park that is set to open its
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Disney Cars Arcade As Seen On Location Test At Tomorrowland Arcade, DisneyWorld
Shortly I am going to be rolling out the Arcade Releases for 2013 page and as a way to kind of start that off, as well as the New Year tonight, here is a
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The Top 10 Posts At Arcade Heroes For 2012
Last year I took a look at the top 10 posts that we ran as a way to recap the news of the year and it doesn’t hurt to do it again – its
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Last 2012 Weekend News: Namco IAAPA Booth Tour Video; PIU Fiesta 2 Competition; Star Wars Pinball update
We are heading into the last weekend of 2012, which I hope is fun and safe for all of you as the new year is rung in. In some various arcade related newsbits, this
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GTI Asia China Expo 2012 News
Earlier this month an amusement/arcade trade show was held in China called the GTI Asia China Expo 2012. We have covered trade events like GTI in the past although it always proves difficult as
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New Footage Of An Old Primal Rage II Prototype Board
There has been plenty to talk about when it comes to prototypes this year and so its fitting that we end the year with a look at a prototype game in action, Atari Games’
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