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Looking Back At Pac-Man As The Game Turns 35
Today marks the 35th anniversary of a legend in video gaming, particularly in arcades. That would be the arcade release of Namco’s Pac-Man to Japanese arcades. There is a big celebration going on at
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Newsbytes: Magic Girl Pin; Tempest 2000; Chocovader
It’s been another slow news week and today’s bundle of news reflects that as I had to really scrub the internet just for small news items. In the mean time if you haven’t listened
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Raw Thrills Starts An Offensive Against Arcade Pirates
Since the beginning of the video arcade industry, popular games and their creators have had to deal with the piracy dilemma. If a game sells well then someone will try and copy it exactly
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Newsbytes: From Kung Fury To Color Metallica and Skycurser
Happy May everyone. Here’s hoping it will bring us some more awesome arcade news – for April the most popular post was definitely the news on the Kung Fu Master 2 discovery. For what I
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Andamiro Goes On A Video Posting Spree for Pump It Up PRIME 2015
If you want to know how Andamiro’s hot new dancing arcade game works, they have finally uploaded several videos to Youtube to demonstrate some of the new features for Pump It Up Prime 2015. While
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Kung Fu Master 2 Arcade Prototype Discovered
I recently ran a poll asking which genres you would like to see return to the arcade. While it wasn’t voted on by thousands (or even hundreds) the #1 genre you the readers would
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Missing In Action: Maze Games
This week has been super slow for arcade news so this has given me some time to work on an article I’ve had floating in the queue for a while now. A few years
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Pinball Innovations: FlipPaper; 8-player Pinball and King Pin Video Pinball
Here’s a quick update on a few items from the wonderful world of pinball that I have come across today: UPDATE: Added info on VPCabs below 8-player Pinball game, Gamelan Wizard – The country of
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Newsbits: MGC 2015; WrestleMania and Full Throttle Pin vids; Genre Poll
It has been a busy, busy week for me, I hope it has been great for you readers out there. Not really arcade related but I got a chance to see that Atari: Game
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Chinese Companies Show Off Their Latest Arcades at CIAE2015
Right after the Amusement Expo happened at the end of March in Vegas, over in China another trade show was firing up to show off products for that corner of the world. I’ve covered
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Article: What Really Happened To Arcades
Thanks to ‘Venumspyders’ for the tip. I was just going to briefly mention this in addition to something else but then I started writing and it became its own thing (cue, “It’s aliiiiive!” here).
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New Locations: Pins ‘n Pockets in Lake Elisnore, CA; Vector Volcano Classic Arcade In Bend, OR
Let’s start this fine Spring week with a couple of stories on new arcade locations! Pins ‘n Pockets – This venue in Lake Elisnore, CA just opened their arcade which also includes 8 lanes
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