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Kevin Williams: The SEGA Situation
Let’s start the week with an opinion piece, where site friend and industry specialist Kevin Williams weighs in on what’s been happening with SEGA over in Japan. Take it away, Kevin: Opinion Piece: The
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Location Watch: Gate Ninety World & Brussels Pinball Museum (Belgium); Pinball Garage (OH); 2Fast4U (Aus); Tokens Arcade (PA); Arcade Galactic #2 (UT)
Welcome to the latest edition of LOCATION WATCH, a post that highlights locations that are opening their doors out there. It’s been a little rare for us to post these this year, and unfortunately
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Newsbytes: Making TMNT Pin; Spitfire Revealed; OutRun 1up & More
It’s been yet another crazy week, but regardless your political persuasion, arcades are still there to provide for some escapism. It does seem that a lot of people are still talking about the Sega
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What Is Happening With The Sale Of Sega’s Arcade Business In Japan?
This story was exploding over the internet this morning, and unfortunately, I’ve been seeing a lot of comments on this that are incorrect or spreading the false idea that arcades are done in Japan
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Newsbytes: Arcade Dreams Kickstarter; DoDonPachi New Test; More Assorted Fun
Welcome to the latest edition of Newsbytes. I’m your host, Adam the Arcade Hero, and I’ll take you on a quick tour of some quick news items from the arcade/pinball/amusement worlds. I missed this
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ExA-Arcadia News: Paul Jacobs Joins The Company; DoDonPachi SDJ & Vritra Hexa Orders Open
We’ve got some exA news for you today, starting with a personnel announcement. Paul Jacobs is very well known in the industry, having worked for numerous amusement companies over the years including Data East,
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Newsbytes: Laser Quest Closure; Sega News; Racing Jam SDX & Pinball
Welcome to another thrilling edition of Newsbytes, a collection of news items from the arcade and pinball world. This one has a little bit more commentary than normal, just due to the nature of
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Location Watch:Tokyo Video Gamers (JP); The Mineshaft (WI); Play Arcade (MA); Powerhouse Pinball (BC); Bishop Cidercade (TX) & More
Here’s a kind of post that we haven’t seen in a loooong while, and to be honest, I wasn’t sure if there would be another “Location Watch” post for the rest of the year.
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The AAMA 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting Gets Underway
We’re in the age of non-physical, totally virtual tradeshow events – whether or not that will continue on into 2021 remains to be seen, but it’s the reality for most events right now. Normally
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It’s the first weekend of September, and that means that it’s time for another edition of Newsbytes. This is where I curate arcade & pinball news from around the interwebs into one post. Right
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The IAAPA 2020 Physical Event Has Been Canceled
When the IAAPA organization announced that they would be holding their physical trade show event in Orlando this November, there was plenty of skepticism that it would actually take place. While many vendors did
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Newsbytes: Fight of Gods AE Released; Switch ‘N’ Shoot Mini; Round1 RU; Responding To Cheddar
Adam November 15, 2020 5Welcome to Newsbytes, a “quick” spattering of arcade news for your weekend, that often ends up with more commentary than warrants a “quick” post 😛 There hasn’t been a lot of arcade news this
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