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Newsbytes: IAAPI & GTI Asia China Expo 2023; The Godfather & Galactic Tank Force Pinball; More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated collection of quick news items from around the world of arcades and pinball. While we’ve had a lot of game releases in the past month, these smaller bits of
Read More »Stern Pinball Launches The Foo Fighters
Today is the day where Stern All-Access Insiders can begin ordering Limited Edition models for Foo Fighters, the latest design from Stern Pinball and the second game by Jack Danger of Dead Flip Pinball
Read More »March Is Pinball Season: Updates From Stern, Jersey Jack & American Pinball
March is usually a time that pinball fans get some new goodies to talk about, although that hasn’t completely been the case for the past few years. As the norm returns, each major manufacturer
Read More »Location Watch February 2023: The Newest Places To Play Arcade Games
Welcome to the first Location Watch of the year – I likely could have done this in January but that was a very busy month for me. It is worth noting that while I
Read More »Foo Fighters Coming To Pinball Thanks To Stern
It’s about time for a new pinball machine to be announced and Stern Pinball just teased out their next game, Foo Fighters: This appears to be a design by Jack Danger, possibly with art
Read More »Bandai Namco’s Taiko No Tatsujin Goes On Test In The USA
NOTE: This post is discussing a game going on “location test,” the arcade industry equivalent of a beta test. This is not a guarantee that it will see mass production/shipment within North America. Ask
Read More »New Arcade Releases: Ice Cold Beer [Retro Arcade]; Dead Heat Unleashed [Bandai Namco]
They say that February is a month for lovers and when it comes to arcade releases, this particular February has been great for lovers of arcade games. As you could already tell from the
Read More »Newsbytes: Roger Sharpe Movie; Street Fighter VR; More Games On Test; New Super Shot & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated collection of quick news items from around the world of arcades and pinball. Please note: I am working on a new Location Watch post so for anyone waiting on
Read More »VR Arcade Updates: UNIS Launches Sailor’s Quest VR; Andamiro USA & Rilix Team Up On SpongeBob
Now that a few standard type arcade machines have had their day in the sun, now its time for some Virtual Reality arcade machines to get some attention as they begin shipping out into
Read More »Arcade Retrospective: The Tech That Nearly Killed the Arcade Industry! – Part 2
Industry specialist Kevin Williams follows up on his look at the rise-and-fall of technology in the amusement scene, particularly in regards to optical storage mediums. It’s the 1990s and its time for…LaserDiscs…and CDs! KWP:
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