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Unboxing SpaceWarp 66
My second acquisition of the year is now complete, as I recently purchased a SpaceWarp 66 from Touch Magix (purchased through one of the distributors I often use). Here’s the video; If you missed
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GENDA-Owned Sega Arcades To Change Name To GiGO In Japan
Today, it was revealed that Genda completed their purchase of Sega’s amusement operations division, purchasing the remaining 15% of shares. As a part of that, they changed the name of their company to GENDA
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Location Watch January 2022: New Arcades In FL, CA, VT, IA, TX, Canada, The UK, India & Australia
Welcome to the first Location Watch of 2022. This is an on-going series of posts which highlight new locations that have opened their doors recently (or semi-recently), curated from news around the ‘net. Granted,
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Prop Cycle-Style Sky Riders by Ace Amusement Is Now Available In The US
Way back in February of last year, I ran a story about an interesting new game that had launched over in the UK/EU via a distributor called UDC; The name of the game was
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Bandai Namco Amusements Updates: New Website; New Pac-Man Basketball Game; MT5DX+ Unbox
We haven’t had much to talk about for the past week or so, but even though today’s news is brief, at least it is something. Back at IAAPA, Nate Nissen of Bandai Namco Amusements
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Bandai Namco Amusements Launches Maximum Tune 5DX+ In North America
It’s unusual for us to have a specific release date for arcade games here in the West – often times games will just ship without public notice until they just appear on location. Fortunately
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Pre-Orders Open For Akai Katana/Crimson Katana EXA Label
Arcade shoot ’em ups aren’t as strong as they used to be on the North American market, but the genre isn’t dead. Thanks to the efforts of some indie companies and now exA-Arcadia, fans
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Stern Pinball Unveils Details on Rush
Well, it’s a busy day all of the sudden! First was news of Sega shipping Mission: Impossible Arcade machines and now we have the details revealed on Stern’s latest piece, Rush. This game is
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Sega Launches Mission: Impossible Arcade DX in North America & Europe
Let’s start of 2022 with a bang – we have our first game release of the year to report on, and some updates on a few other games. As the headline mentions, Sega Amusements
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2021 Year-In-Review With The Top 10 Posts
Welcome to something of an annual tradition here at Arcade Heroes, albeit something sort of rare on my part – a Top 10 list. I’m not big on such lists since most of them
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IAAPA 2021: The Final Round-Up
It’s unusual for me to get to the final IAAPA tradeshow round-up this late in the year, but this year has thrown me for a loop in more than one regard. Still, it’s better
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‘Furious’ By Raw Thrills Seen On Test At Dave & Busters Addison
[Thanks to Jdevy for the tip] Note: This post discusses a game seen on location test, the arcade equivalent of a beta test. The game may change significantly from what you see here, or
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