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IAAPA 2025 Wrap-Up Part 5: Amusement Source International, Coastal Amusements, Ace
Continuing our coverage of the IAAPA 2025 trade show that took place in Orlando, FL, »
IAAPA 2025 Wrap-Up Part 4: Andamiro USA, Pinball, UNIS
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Arcade Heroes Celebrates 19 Years Of Covering Arcade News & Fun
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IAAPA 2025 Wrap-Up Part 3: exA-Arcadia, AVS Companies, JET Games
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Specular Interactive/Raw Thrills Officially Unveils Dirty Drivin’
Be sure to check out our in-depth behind-the-scenes look at Dirty Drivin’ if you haven’t already! While we got information about this ahead of time, jumping the gun a little bit as it was
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The Taiwanese Arcade where Tetris is King
(Thanks to Shinichi on our Facebook page for the tip!) Any good restaurant has a signature dish that attracts locals in to enjoy it and in turn they give patronage to that restaurant, usually
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The Rockin Roller Mobile Arcade
Newsfeed 1098 & 1099 via While arcades are generally known as fixed locations, in recent times that hasn’t always been the case with new mobile arcade gamerooms. Take a truck trailer, cram it with
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The Change Machine T-Shirt
Newsfeed 1097 via It’s near impossible to track down all of the clever T-Shirts that have been made over the years to feature something arcade-related. But I can’t say I’ve ever come across a
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Build your own virtual arcade with Insane Arcade
Deviating from our normally stringent way of talking about coin-op arcade software is something related to that. On our Facebook page, Poom Chompoosri, posted a link to a new game called Insane Arcade. It’s
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Newsfeed 1096 via Anyone who has followed this blog for a while knows that I have a connection with Brazil, last year I made a trip down there to visit with my wife’s family
Read More »The Video Fever circa 1982
It’s not the first time we have discussed a report from 1982 that covers arcade games – it seems that ’82 was the time the media really started to notice the craze (right before
Read More »The world of arcades, shown in quarters
Newsfeed 1095 via In lieu of real news, some entertainment that is arcade related both with quarters and in content. This is some great animation work and has a very strong “demo scene” vibe
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Since The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters made it’s popular debut, we’ve been seeing an increase in documentaries about our industry, although so far they have only focused on classic arcade gaming
Read More »First video of Wizard of Oz pinball whitewood
Jersey Jack Pinball has released the first video of the upcoming Wizard of Oz pinball’s whitewood (aka, early prototype) and while it lacks all of the artwork, toys, rules and scoring which will ultimately
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