Taiko No Tatsujin USA Version Release Details
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The Day Before The Storm – IAAPA 2024 Day 0
The educational day of IAAPA 2024 has come and gone, which means that tomorrow the »
Japan Amusement Expo 2024: The Full Recap
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IAAPA 2024 – The Preview Of Previews
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DOF Robotics To Introduce Angry Birds: Fury Road Arcade Racer At IAAPA 2024
If you thought that Raw Thrills’ Angry Birds Boom! would be the only Angry Birds »
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Amusement Goes To The Olympics
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams, marks the celebration of the Tokyo Olympics 2020, and charts the influences that the video amusement industry has taken
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Arcooda Launches New Line of Arcade-Ready Monitors
This is a post that probably won’t make hardcore classic arcade collectors very happy, while enticing arcade operators and more casual home arcade fans. The debate of whether or not older arcade machines should
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Newsbytes: Minecraft Unboxing; 4:3 Arcade LCDs; SNK Millenium; KeyMaster Legal Woes & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post that curates quick news from around the arcade & pinball world and serves them up to you on a digital platter. We’re in the post trade show news lull
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Pre-Orders Now Live For Rival Megagun XE (exA-Arcadia)
Fans of shoot ’em ups and particularly versus play can rejoice, as a fun new title that fits both of those categories is now available to pre-order for exA-Arcadia systems. Called Rival Megagun XE,
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Amusement Expo 2021 Round-up
Amusement Expo 2021 is officially over, so with the dust settled, let’s take this opportunity to wrap it all up in a tidy blog post. I may do a Vlog about it too, if
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Spooky Pinball Announces Two New Games: Halloween & Ultraman: Kaiju Rumble!
Boutique pinball maker Spooky Pinball is about to be extremely busy, as they’ve taken the unusual (well, down right unheard of in pinball land) move to announce not one but two brand new games.
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Wahlap Selects Sega Amusements To Carry Jet Blaster In North America & Europe
While I’m still working on the Amusement Expo 2021 wrap-up post (hope to be finished today), another piece of news just hit the wires to discuss and it involves Sega Amusements. While they did
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ExA-Arcadia Makes Their Official US Debut At Amusement Expo 2021
I’ve been talking about the company and its games for years, and this week, exA-Arcadia finally was able to make their official introduction to the North American industry as they appeared at Amusement Expo
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Sega Posts 3 Direct Captures Of Mission: Impossible Arcade
Amusement Expo 2021 has come and gone, and I’ve been busy working on videos but also posting details to social media about some of the news there. I am working on a post to
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Newsbytes: Black Emperor Launch; Bowl Expo News; Andamiro USA Goes To Texas; Playing Cruis’n Blast & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a weekly or bi-weekly curation of news from around the world of arcades & pinball. Stay tuned to YouTube on Monday/Tuesday as I will be posting an Amusement Expo 2021 preview,
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June Location Watch #2: More New Arcades Open in GA, TX, AZ, MA, OK, The UK and NZ
Welcome to part 2 of our June Location Watch. If you missed Part #1, click here. This was broken up as there were so many locations opening their doors for the first time that
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Benchmark Games & Boxblaster Join Forces To Create A VR Redemption Game, VR X-perience
Long-time readers of the site might recall a story from a few years ago, back when VR was just starting to dip its toe into the arcade industry again (the gurus called it “LBE
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