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Newsbytes: Star Wars Pin Goes Comic; MaxiTune 6R; High Score Girl II;
Stern Announces Star Wars Comic Art Edition Pinball Machines Yesterday, Stern caused a disturbance in the Force by announcing a new edition of the Star Wars pinball design that they released back in 2017. While there are no changes to the layout, and no new code to accompany this (yet), the hubbub came from »
Newsbytes: Bubble Bobble Whacker; Touch Magix Games; Lightning Knights, Atari Lynx 30th & More
Welcome to the last day of August, which has been pretty slow for arcade news overall. Bubble Bobble Whacker On Test Let’s start off with another Japanese location test, although this is one that could certainly find it’s way to the States. Taito has begun testing out a Bubble Bobble themed whacker game. Would »
IAAPA 2018 Wrap-up #4: ICE, Raw Thrills, Stern, UNIS, Coastal, Bay Tek
Time for another look at some of the products that were at the IAAPA 2018 trade show in Orlando, FL this past November. If you missed one of our previous Wrap-Up posts, then you can get up to speed by clicking on the links below: Wrap-Up #1 Wrap-Up #2 Wrap-Up #3 For the games »
Testing Now: Spins Ahoy!
A while back, we heard rumblings and saw distant, blurry shots of a Jumanji videmption arcade game that was on test at a Dave & Busters location. We never got a good look at it but the project eventually dropped the Jumanji license while the game itself continued on and today we have more »
Spotted On Location: Skip Time Family Sports
While we don’t have a ton of information to go off of on this one, we do have a couple of photos so perhaps someone out there will be able to provide a closer look or more information. If anything, this should tide us over until the next big game announcement makes its way »
Newsbytes: IAAPA 2017 “Pre-Game” Edition
It is the last Saturday before the IAAPA 2017 trade show, a huge event that takes place in Orlando, FL annually at this time of year. So for this week’s Newsbytes, we will focus on that. Also a Happy Veterans Day to those who have served in the military. I have several family members »
Newsbytes: Replicade; How A Home Port Damaged Sega; Sky Skipper UK; Magix Floor; Arcades Direct & More
10 Print “Hello World and welcome to another Newsbytes” 20 Goto 10 Let’s get rolling on other news items from the wonderful world of arcades. The Replicade Mini Centipede Arcade Machine (Thanks to everyone who sent this in) If you have ever wanted to play Atari’s classic arcade shooter Centipede but with only two »
Newsbytes: Predators; NBA Jam Book; Galaga Chronicles; Golden Tee 2018; ColorDMD Updates
Welcome to the last weekend of July. CAX and ReplayFX are in full swing so if you have the chance to attend, soak up every minute of it! Let’s end the month on some good news items with today’s Newsbytes: Predators Restored In case you missed the news last night, an unreleased arcade prototype »
Happy 30th Birthday to Sega’s After Burner! 1987-2017
Happy 30th Birthday to Sega’s After Burner. According to the artwork on the side of the cockpit today July 2nd 2017 marks 30 years of After Burner. After Burner is one of Sega’s most famous arcade titles, it has also had many console versions including a recent 3D adaptation that is available on the »
Why Arcades Haven’t Died In The United States
This past week, I had a few readers point out an article by Brian Ashcraft on Kotaku entitled Why Arcades Haven’t Died In Japan. It offers up that writer’s perspective as to why the arcade business and culture has remained strong despite diminishing in size. These readers wanted to know my take on this, »
Arcade & Pinball Releases For 2017
The world of coin-op arcade entertainment is alive and well with new video games, videmption games and pinball tables being released at various times and seasons. This page was created to track those releases from around the world for the 2017 calendar year. Different regions are separated into the tabs below with video redemption (“videmption”) titles »
An Off-Site Interview With Paul Williams, CEO Of Sega Amusements International + OutRun 3
(Thanks to Mauro Zangirolami for the tip & info, although his information is no longer welcome on the blog for future posts, after he attacked the site with unfounded accusations and a general showing that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about – Mr. Paul Williams is the player at the front on GRID »
