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ExA Arcade Board Gains Support From G.Rev, Seibu Kaihatsu & City Connection

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Last week, we ran a story about a new company that is looking to bring content to arcades by the name of Exa-Arcadia. They made their first public appearance at the JAEPO 2018 show

Stern Pinball To Produce Supreme Pinball Tables

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Fans of pinball know that Stern has dabbled with “boutique”, limited edition games before. Most recently was the Pabst Can Crusher machine (a re-theme of another boutique machine, Whoa Nellie!). Now, it is Stern’s

Highway Games & Homepin Launches Thunderbirds Pinball

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While we spoke of a new challenger to the video game side of the business last week, newcomers are landing in the world of pinball as well. Today’s company is called Homepin, a company

JAEPO 2018 Day 2 – More Arcade Goodness From Japan

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Thanks to a spy named Charlie, we have more direct photos and footage from JAEPO 2018 today and don’t have to rely almost exclusively on Twitter for news. That said, we’ll still have some

JAEPO 2018 Part I – New Arcade Games Coming From Japan

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Welcome to the first of various JAEPO 2018 threads. These may be a bit of a hodge podge of content, most of what I am seeing from the show coming via Twitter as Japanese

Dave & Busters Officially Rolls Out Tomb Raider Arcade

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Mentioned the other day on the blog, certain undisclosed Dave & Busters locations began to receive Tomb Raider arcade machines. Designed by Adrenaline Amusements, the game cabinet was based upon the recently launched Rabbids

ExA-Arcadia To Introduce New Kit System At JAEPO 2018

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Conversion kits were the bread & butter of the arcade industry around 1984 when operators already had more cabinets than they really wanted to deal with. With the introduction of the JAMMA wiring standard

Rabbids Hollywood Released As Tomb Raider Comes To Dave & Busters

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UPDATE: Dave & Busters officially rolls out Tomb Raider Arcade. Click here for details. Last year right before IAAPA 2017, we found out that Canadian based game maker Adrenaline Amusements was working on not

JAEPO 2018 Preview: Upcoming Titles From Sega, Namco, Taito, Konami & More

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It’s trade show week and that means that we’ve got JAEPO 2018, the big Japanese arcade expo, approaching fast. Fortunately, many Japanese companies like to create special webpages that tout the games that will

Newsbytes: Billy Mitchell & Nolan Bushnell Controversies

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Well the end of this week turned into a weird roller coaster of news for arcade stuff. As the two main items ended up soaking up all my time, that’s all we’ll be discussing.

Bandai Namco Resurrecting The Shoot Away Series With Shoot Away Pro

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After a fairly mellow 2017, the Japanese arcade industry seems to have awoken from their slumber as we’re just getting hit with news left and right. Not complaining, just observing. 😉 Shoot Away –

Square Enix To Preview The Starwing Paradox At JAEPO 2018

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It’s February and that means about a week from now, we will begin to find out about some of the hot new games that are going to be coming to the Japanese market and