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Two Businesses With Arcade Machines Busted For Gambling In California
One challenge of operating an honest business is when dishonest ones come around, break the law and reinforce negative stereotypes about a certain industry. You might recall the arcade scene from Robocop 2…too often
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Sega Launches The Daytona “How-To” Video Series
With Sega’s new Daytona Championship USA on the market and available to play in arcades this Summer, there is a good chance that you have come across a unit or two. Sega has been
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Newsbytes: Predators; NBA Jam Book; Galaga Chronicles; Golden Tee 2018; ColorDMD Updates
Welcome to the last weekend of July. CAX and ReplayFX are in full swing so if you have the chance to attend, soak up every minute of it! Let’s end the month on some
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Spooky Pinball Unveils Total Nuclear Annihilation Pinball
As a “boutique” creator of pinball machines, Wisconsin-based Spooky Pinball LLC may not get all of the media attention that the big guys get. Fortunately, they are still busy making new concepts for locations
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Meet ICE’s New Game: Screw Ball and watch me get the Jackpot while playing it
Recently I had the opportunity to play ICE’s, new game, Screw Ball. This game is now for sale so it should be showing up at arcades soon if it has not already. I found
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Sega World Drivers Championship 2018 Begins Testing
Last week, news broke that Sega had a new racing arcade game in the works by the name of Sega World Drivers Championship 2018. Now a week later the game has been placed on
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New Arcades: Eighty Three (OK); Play Arcade & Bar (FL); Lucky Strike Social (HI); Main Event (TN & DE); Scene 75 (OH); Taito Station (Japan); DNA VR (UK); Escape Reality (DE);
It’s been a few weeks since our last look at new arcade businesses opening their doors so let’s clear the backlog and get you up-to-date with the latest venues that will offer new amusements
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Get Ready – California Extreme (CA) & Replay FX (PA) This Weekend
July is almost over (booooo!) and while this means we’ll soon be in the “dog days” of Summer, it also means that gamers on both the East and West coast of the United States
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Let’s Unbox The Walking Dead Arcade Game
It has been a little while since I did an arcade “unboxing” – a little over a year in fact when I unboxed and installed a World Tour Foosball table by Barron Games. I
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Preview: Cosmotrons Indie Arcade Game
We first found out about the up-and-coming indie arcade game by the name of Cosmotrons when it was seen at Midwest Gaming Classic event this past March. As development progressed for that title, the
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