Location Watch October 2025: New Arcades Open Their Doors Worldwide
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Introducing Arcade Heroes’ Arcade Hall Of Fame
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DSM Arcade To Launch Perfect Pour: Pabst Blue Ribbon Edition At IAAPA 2025
DSM Arcade might not have been at IAAPA 2024, but they will be around at »
Raw Thrills To Debut Jackpot Racer, Godzilla Kaiju Wars Deluxe & More At IAAPA 2025
IAAPA 2025 is approaching fast, and today we have a preview of the new arcade »
exA-Arcadia Ships Vanguard Princess R; Opens Pre-Orders For Chaos Code: Nemesis Experiment
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Another location test report on DJ Max Technika + news on an iPhone version of the game
Say what you will about DJ Max Technika, it certainly is generating a bit of excitement among players. This of course is why I think that there is great value in high-profile location tests
Read More »Arcade Art – hand painted 8-bit goodness
We’ve discussed arcade-related artwork before but I hadn’t thought of looking up “Arcade Art.com” before to see what would pull up. It seems like a no brainer now, but there is a website called
Read More »Virtual-Kade opens up in Kentucky with focus on VR and exergaming
We’re happy to report new of yet another new arcade facility opening it’s doors to the public, although this one is a little different as they don’t appear to have any coin-operated arcades (except
Read More »News on Pinball Events in the UK for 2009
[Thanks to Nick of ThePinballBlog for the information] If you are a pinball fan and you live in the UK then next year you’ll have a great time thanks to several events that will see some
Read More »City in California makes a loan for new arcade/FEC to open
When I saw this news it had me a little surprised since it always seems like many cities do things to make life harder for an arcade to open these days but that
Read More »Happy (belated) 2nd birthday for Arcade Heroes
This week Arcade Heroes reached it’s second year in existence and I feel bad for missing the actual day – I thought it was today but after some checking it was actually on the
Read More »DJ Max Technika Location Test report
[Thanks to Phil Ver 0 on our forums] The new game DJ Max Technika has been testing in California and thanks to one of our readers, we have information on how that has been
Read More »More details on Smart Industries' Battle Stations
Among the many new games coming to the market that were shown at IAAPA was Battle Stations, a submarine action game that is coming to us from Smart Industries. Smart generally deals with redemption
Read More »Three more videos from IAAPA with some arcade game footage
While I had hoped for more videos of video arcades in action at IAAPA, I suppose that might have been hoping for too much since there is a lot more there than just arcades.
Read More »Three Silver Strike Bowling players win big prizes in time for Thanksgiving
This was meant to have been posted on Thanksgiving (last Thursday for the US) but I overlooked the mail then but figured that even though I’m almost a week late, it’s still worth posting.
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