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EAG Expo 2013 First Look – Dead Heat Riders, Sega Booth, Electrocoin, UNIS

EAG Expo 2013 First Look – Dead Heat Riders, Sega Booth, Electrocoin, UNIS

Shaggy January 22, 2013 9

Today the EAG Expo 2013 took place and with it, some new stuff. AH writer HeavyElectricity (Nick Thorpe) was there to check everything out and he will be providing a larger and more detailed

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Book Review: Atari Inc. Business Is Fun

Book Review: Atari Inc. Business Is Fun

Shaggy January 17, 2013 1

Well here is a rarity for us, a book review. It’s not that there aren’t any books about arcades out there, just that I have not got my hands on one until recently. The

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Press Releases: Dark Escape 4D, Dream Raiders, UNIS USA

Press Releases: Dark Escape 4D, Dream Raiders, UNIS USA

Shaggy January 17, 2013 1

Here are some quick updates on the latest arcade titles to reach the market, thanks to some press releases that have been making their way out into the inter-ether lately. First off is Namco’s

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Editorial: No Everyone Doesn’t Agree On The Death Of The Arcade

Editorial: No Everyone Doesn’t Agree On The Death Of The Arcade

Shaggy January 16, 2013 16

It’s been a while since we’ve seen an article that directly looks into what they call the “death” of arcades but there is a pretty popular article that was published on The Verge today

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Pins And Needles, A Pinball Museum In The Heart Of LA

Pins And Needles, A Pinball Museum In The Heart Of LA

Shaggy January 15, 2013 10

Newsfeed 1285 via Here is a location opening that we should have heard about when it happened around the end of May/beginning of June last year, but as it sometimes happens those announcements go

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Japanese Trailer for Namco’s New Bhutto Burst Kid Game

Japanese Trailer for Namco’s New Bhutto Burst Kid Game

Shaggy January 12, 2013 1

Some months ago Namco Bandai showed off some pictures of a new concept in what’s known as “kid vending” type games, something that are popular in Japan but not so much here out West.

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Weekend Reads: Pokemon Game, Music video, Light-Gun Game Ban, DNA Seminar

Weekend Reads: Pokemon Game, Music video, Light-Gun Game Ban, DNA Seminar

Shaggy January 11, 2013 4

UPDATE: Rebuttal piece to The Boston Globe on the violent arcade games issue added below It’s been a really slow news week but overall its seemed slow in other areas too, at my own

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Stern Pinball Makes An Appearance At CES 2013

Stern Pinball Makes An Appearance At CES 2013

Shaggy January 8, 2013 1

[Thanks to  for the tip] When I hear of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, I think of the line from TRON: “If you’ve seen one consumer electronics show, you’ve seen them all”. I am

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IGS Launches PGM3 Hardware

IGS Launches PGM3 Hardware

Shaggy January 4, 2013 2

Among fans of unique arcade-specific hardware, some despair over the trend where most game companies these days find it easier and more economical to use PC machine builds tied to some sort of specialized

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Namco Entertainment Launching Prototype Eatertainment Arcade Business In Near Future

Namco Entertainment Launching Prototype Eatertainment Arcade Business In Near Future

Shaggy January 3, 2013 10

Newsfeed 1281 via Hot on the heels of news that Namco will be opening up a new theme park in Tokyo later this year comes news that Namco Entertainment (which is the division of

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Namco Opening New Theme Park In Tokyo This Summer; JAEPO Website Launch

Namco Opening New Theme Park In Tokyo This Summer; JAEPO Website Launch

Shaggy January 3, 2013 3

Newsfeed 1280 via For our first Stinger newsfeed of the year, they pointed us to a story about the development of a new Namco Bandai indoor theme park that is set to open its

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Disney Cars Arcade As Seen On Location Test At Tomorrowland Arcade, DisneyWorld

Disney Cars Arcade As Seen On Location Test At Tomorrowland Arcade, DisneyWorld

Shaggy December 31, 2012 7

Shortly I am going to be rolling out the Arcade Releases for 2013 page and as a way to kind of start that off, as well as the New Year tonight, here is a

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