The Arcade Anniversaries of 2025
With a new year upon us, you are likely to come across an anniversary or »
EAG Expo 2025 Preview
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Newsbytes Rhythm Game Special: Maimai DX Testing In Chicago, Bubble Bobble In Music Diver, Headlines & Much More
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Arcade Prototype Discovered: Dropzone Arcade
It has been quite a long time since we last reported on a new arcade »
Stern Pinball Unveils Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye
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Sega launches Patrol-Chaser & Battle-Police duo in Japan
While we don’t see as many arcade titles that are created just for kids like we used to, there are still a few that are coming out to attract younger audiences. Sega in particular
Read More »What games are best enjoyed in the arcade?
So the headline here is sort of a rhetorical question – we all know what works best in arcades and what doesn’t, but we may as well discuss the subject thanks to this link
Read More »GT 2010 world premiere happening next Thursday in Ohio
Anyone who is anticipating the upcoming (Oct. 1st) release of Golden Tee 2010 will get a chance to see the game early as Incredible Technologies will host the GT2010 world premiere event at Boomer’s
Read More »DDR:X gets some updates, Konami Europe seeks player feedback
Remember those problems with DDR:X that we talked about a little while back? Well it looks like Konami is doing something about it and in particular Konami Europe recently held a private test in
Read More »Looking back at some great coin-op EM games
Today has been slow for news, I have been looking around for something throughout most of the day and I just couldn’t find much to talk about. At the very least we have two
Read More »More industry coverage seen thanks to "Save The Arcades"
We all know that it is a chore for the arcade industry to get some mainstream attention and one aspect of Stride’s “Save The Arcades” campaign has certainly made it a little easier for
Read More »Big Buck Safari passes 5000 units sold
I have mentioned before that we don’t often get sales numbers for arcade titles but Raw Thrills has had a few hits over the past year or so that they reveal such information on
Read More »Aussie smashes Galaga world record score
The never-ending quest for obtaining the high score on classic arcade titles continues to catch attention from different places around the world and the latest world-record attempt was made on Namco’s Galaga by Phil
Read More »Play Pong with your feet just about anywhere
Microsoft’s Project Natal isn’t out yet but already there are games out there which allow you to use your body as a controller and this particular game, called Sport Pong could easily be setup
Read More »Weird: Theme park in UK to offer hypnosis for parents afraid to go on scary rides
When you look at the amusement business, you expect to see facilities try what they can do differently to pull people into their premises but I have to admit that I never had thought
Read More »LAI Games brings Dino Duel to the US
It looks like the arena of card-based coin-op games is beginning to heat up – first with Sega and now LAI Games is going to bring one a title over from Indonesia (the game
Read More »A tour of the Pinball World Championships
Despite what anyone might say about the current state of pinball, there are still many fans out there that love the game enough to get together and hold some excellent competitions. One such competition
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