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Super Sizing Amusement! – Part 1
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams (KWP), takes a look at the history of the “Deluxe” and “Super Deluxe” categories of arcade cabinet hardware. These
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Retrospective: PCs Powering Arcade Machines
April tends to be a very slow month for arcade news, since most of the info that pertains to the industry (particularly brand new games) takes place at Amusement Expo. So to help fill
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Arcade Retrospective: The Tech That Nearly Killed the Arcade Industry! – Part 2
Industry specialist Kevin Williams follows up on his look at the rise-and-fall of technology in the amusement scene, particularly in regards to optical storage mediums. It’s the 1990s and its time for…LaserDiscs…and CDs! KWP:
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Taito’s JAEPO 2023 Line-Up Includes Mixed Reality, New Rhythm Game
If you follow arcades to any degree then you know who Taito is – even if you don’t then you should at least know Space Invaders or Arkanoid (if it’s still a no, then
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IAAPA 2021 Round-Up #2 – Booth Tours!
It’s time to present more news from the IAAPA 2021 tradeshow that took place a couple of weeks ago, with a strong focus on touring the different booths that were there. If you missed
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The IAAPA 2021 Pre-Game Show
Greetings readers, this is Adam the Arcadehero, and in lieu of Newsbytes this weekend, here is a preview of IAAPA 2021, a large tradeshow event focused on the arcade/amusement/theme park industry that takes place
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Stern Pinball Opens Insider Connected Kit Orders
Stern Pinball issued a press release to announce the availability of their Insider Connected kits today, marking the official launch of the system for arcades to grab. They had already launched the app so
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Arcooda Launches New Line of Arcade-Ready Monitors
This is a post that probably won’t make hardcore classic arcade collectors very happy, while enticing arcade operators and more casual home arcade fans. The debate of whether or not older arcade machines should
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Unboxing Round-Up With Outnumbered, Blazing Chrome AC & StepManiaX
While the weekend is almost over, and I have a Newsbytes curated news post about ready to go, I hate doing those almost back-to-back, so let’s do a little bit of padding out with
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New In Interactive Carnival Style Games – Playbox by Playmind
I’ve noticed lately that my stories that are shared on LinkedIn are getting a bit more attention than I tend to get on other social media sites that have several times more followers, so
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Newsbytes: Arcade Game Cards Database; Secret Life of Components; Cardboard Arcade;More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of quick news items from around the world of amusement for your weekend reading pleasure. This week was the busiest of the shortened month for arcade news, and March
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Newsbytes: MT5 Qualifers; Super Nintendo World; EU Arcade Raid & Much More
Well, it’s February, and it seems like arcade news is picking up to a point where there’s enough to discuss. I probably won’t be able to do a new Location Watch for a while,
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