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New FEC opens in the Tampa Bay area – Xtreme Adventures

Shaggy July 28, 2009 1

The new FEC location announcements just keep pouring in and this one comes from Tampa Bay area in Florida. What used to be a gym has now become a 6,000 sq. ft. entertainment facility

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Plenty of new games to be seen at Sega's "Private" Show in Japan

Shaggy July 28, 2009 6

Sega recently held a ‘private’ show in Japan where they showed off some of their latest offerings for the amusement market and thanks to the internet, that show is not so private after all.

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Namco's Tank! Tank! Tank! confirmed for US release

Shaggy July 28, 2009 5

While there weren’t many new products revealed at the Distributor Gala in Chicago that took place this past Friday, there were some new confirmations about certain games coming to the US that we only

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Hong Kong based developer Belrare brings SSX Blur and a Super Monkey Ball clone to arcades

Shaggy July 25, 2009 1

While reading the latest Stinger Report newsletter, I came across the news that Taiwan-based developer InJoy Motion Corp. had recently announced two new arcade titles, a mounted gun shooter called Top Gunner and a

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Flynn's Arcade recreated at Comic-Con with a real Space Paranoids cabinet!

Shaggy July 25, 2009 2

As part of the hype machine that Disney is creating for the new TRON: Legacy film, they reconstructed Flynn’s Arcade, with tons of retro coin-op machines and to my own personal excitement, a working

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Article: A New Life For Arcades?

Shaggy July 24, 2009 0

Kevin Williams has penned an extensive and detailed article regarding one of our favorite subjects – the current state of the arcade industry. Weighing in over five pages, he discusses every aspect of what

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Another big FEC opens in Indiana – America's Incredible Pizza Co.

Shaggy July 23, 2009 1

I’m not sure what it is about Indiana lately, but it seems to be attracting a lot of entertainment facilities as of late. The newest facilitiy – America’s Incredible Pizza Co. opens today with

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Images from Insert Coin '09

Shaggy July 23, 2009 1

Kevin Williams has sent us a link to a large number of images from the Insert Coin 09 event and by all appearances, it looks like a great success. There are too many to

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More details on Sega's Border Break

Shaggy July 22, 2009 1

Famitsu has posted more information on the upcoming mech battle game Border Break by Sega and thanks to Aaron Auzins, we have a rundown of what the article discusses. This is one title I

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Hummer Twin now testing outside of Japan @ Brighton Bowlplex

Shaggy July 22, 2009 0

(Thanks for the tip Shane) A few weeks ago we posted about the revelation that Sega will debut a smaller version of their Hummer racing title and the first site to see one of

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Good Press for Insert Coin 09

Shaggy July 22, 2009 0

Insert Coin sounds like it was a big success according to various reports around the internet, and in case you would like to read about what is being said regarding the event, here are

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Looking for some classic games in the Detroit area?

Shaggy July 21, 2009 1

I have never been to Detroit so I don’t know much about the arcades there – it turns out that there are more locations to be found in the area than I thought, according to this article which

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