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Sega Tests New Sonic The Hedgehog Coin Pusher “Sonic Balloon Carnival” With Round1USA
This year marks the 35th birthday of Sonic the Hedgehog, with Sega just beginning to rollout their announcements commemorating the blue blur’s anniversary in recent weeks. We already saw one of those start to
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Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot/Arcade Goes On Test At Round1USA
Back in July, the surprise story of the Summer broken by us was the quiet appearance of a Resident Evil 2 arcade lightgun shooter from Bandai Namco and Capcom on location test in the
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New On Test: Super Punch Mania (Konami), Putt It! Par-Tee (Sega Amusements)
As the trade show season heats up, it’s not unusual for more and more new arcade games to show up on location test, and today we have two examples that recently appeared: Super Punch
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On Test From Raw Thrills: Godzilla Kaiju Wars [Non-VR]; Jackpot Racer
With the start of the next big trade show season for the amusement industry edging closer, today we have got two games that have recently been seen on location test out in the arcade
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Location Test Mania: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco); Pop’n Music (Konami); Forklift Frenzy (Bay Tek)
While it’s been a slow news period for the summer, that doesn’t mean nothing is happening behind-the-scenes within the arcade world. We have three games on test to discuss today, known as “location tests”
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On Test: Star Wars Death Star Assault, Beatmania IIDX 33 Sparkle Shower, Earthion EXA Label
Though usually light on big announcements or releases, Summer often brings with it a good chance for companies to try out upcoming titles or concepts, so it is time once again to round up
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LAI Games Begins Testing Ubisoft All-Star VR
Much has been said in recent months about arcade virtual reality (and VR in general) declining from the heights of its second boom period. That doesn’t stop new pieces from appearing altogether, however, as
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Bandai Namco Tests Bike Dash Delivery In The US Again
Back in 2023, two new Bandai Namco arcade games suddenly appeared on test; one was GoldStorm Pirates, the other being Bike Dash Delivery. GoldStorm is just about ready to release in the West, following
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Raw Thrills Reveals Top Gun Maverick For Arcades
Top Gun Maverick is one of the biggest movies to come along in the past few years, and given the action-packed premise, what better film to turn into an arcade game than this? That’s
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Bandai Namco Tests New Magic Wand Shooter “Magi Blast”
Big arcade news has just kept on coming with Bandai Namco of late, be it their overseas launches of Taiko No Tatsujin and GoldStorm Pirates or tests for their next music game and Wangan
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