Gotta Catch ‘Em All? Stern Pinball Officially Unveils Pokémon
The internet went all ablaze last week when Stern Pinball finally teased that their next »
JET Games USA Launches Giga Shot, Cyber Punch & More
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UNIS Releases Turbo Nova & Jump Master
UNIS is keeping busy with some new arcade games, giving us a little bit of »
Wahlap Scores Top Honors While Launching Storm Racer 2 Worldwide
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Location Watch January 2026: New Arcades Opening Across The World
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Arcade Innovations
Kevin Williams has posted an interesting article over at SPoNG.com that discusses some of the innovations that the arcade industry brought to video games. From QWAKs! light-gun to Atari Footballs trackball, I, Robot’s 3D
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Game Review – Star Wars Arcade Trilogy by Sega
This week I thought I’d review one arcade game that I spent a lot of time on a few years back: Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. Even today this game is still a lot of
Read More »Ground Control Arcade Bar
Here’s another great arcade bar called Ground Control, will some please open one near me, thanks to Destructoid for this find….. For years, the traditional arcade has been dropping steadily off the map. Where
Read More »Consumer Media's Arcade Coverage U-Turn!
This was an interesting read, and some of the points raised have been bugging me for quite a while. Like when having a search on google for “arcade” all you get is Xbox
Read More »Pop It For Gold
Not really in my field of expertise, not that I have much of one anyway, but I can’t help but fall in love with this game. It sounds like great fun, a game that
Read More »Twin Galaxies Official Video Game and Pinball Book of World Records available
In case you are unfamiliar with Twin Galaxies, they happen to be the standard setters for record high scores when it comes to not only console games but primarily coin-op video games. As such
Read More »Churches with arcades, what will they think of next?
I’m all for there being more arcades out there so more people can experience how great of an experience it is, but I am at a loss as to how to go about this
Read More »11th Annual California Extreme Arcade and Pinball Game Show
There are plenty of announcements for arcade shows these days! Details for the the next California Extreme game show have been announced, including a date and details on games, prizes and special speakers. The
Read More »Stern Spider-Man is in production
Stern’s Spider-Man Page has gone live, signalling that the game is in production and is ready to ship. As usual, the page contains a lot of material about the game, such as brochures, close
Read More »The King of Kong – A Fistful of Quarters
It’s stuff like this that defines why people love classic arcade games and what made them so timeless. There was a time where people didn’t play games due to the intricate storylines, but due
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