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Bubsy Paws Into Pinball (Updated!)
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Location Watch March 2026: The Latest Arcade Openings Across The World
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Amusement Expo 2026: The Full Rundown
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AAMA Gala News: All Star Baseball & Zombie League All Stars by Gizmo Game Design & Valley-Dynamo
The AAMA Gala has been taking place all week but today is where we hit product day. Tap That was already announced and now we have something unexpected from long time game maker Valley-Dynamo
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Catch The Light Frenzy Rebranded As Tap That; Launching Feb. 2018
Back at the Amusement Expo 2017 show in Dallas, TX, American game maker Barron Games showed off a new video piece that went by the name of Catch The Light Frenzy. This took the
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Big Buck World Championship 2017 Taking Place Oct. 27th & 28th; Stern Pinball Joins In The Fun
It’s October and apart from spooky characters prepping for Halloween fun at the end of the month, this also means that it is time for the next Big Buck World Championship. Players have been
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NG:DEVTEAM Shows Off New Kraut Buster Footage
It has been a while (over a year) since we heard about the next video game destined for the NeoGeo MVS, Kraut Buster. Designed by MVS experts NG: DEVTEAM in Germany, we first heard
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Sega Launches Darts Of The Dead For Darts Live 2 Machines In October
Darts are one of those games that has long been a staple for out-of-home entertainment that we haven’t really covered on the blog here. Kind of like billiards, it is rare to hear about
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When It Hits The Fan Produced as a Coin-Op Arcade Game
While we expect to start hearing more about new developments from major manufacturers this month in the run-up to IAAPA, you can’t rule out concepts from indie developers making their way to us either.
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Newsbytes: Nutting Associates History; Big Buck; Pac-Man Battle Casino; Daytona; Skycurser; & More
Welcome to another weekend – the last for September 2017. As a reminder, a new arcade game did launch this week, Golden Tee 2018. Next week should see an up-tick in posts from the
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See The Games Shown At GTI Asia China Expo 2017
It is almost October and that means we are nearing trade show season – for the amusement industry anyways. Various trade shows were pushed back this year, probably to give developers more time to
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Mortal Kombat II+ Now In Public Beta
It’s time to break the lull in arcade news with something that’s from the wonderful world of classic arcade games. We don’t hear about hacks of old arcade software very often, apart from oddities
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New Videos: Daytona Championship USA Championship Mode; Golden Tee 2018 Launch Preview; Overtake VR
Well, I just found a little bit of internet time amidst a busy week of setting up games for a major event in the area; let’s take a quick look at three new videos
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