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Newsbytes: NEON FM Alternate; Konami Tests Museca; A Nickelcade Closing
Thanks to E3 this week, there was very little arcade news to discuss but I was able to scrape together the following to fill in the middle of your weekend. Also in the US – Happy Father’s Day to any Dads out there! NEON FM Asia – Unit-E Technologies showed off a new build »
The Grand Master 2015 Arcade Testing In The US June 13th-14th
(Thanks to Abe Navarro for the tip) About a month ago, news came along that a new entry into the famous Tetris: The Grand Master would be finding its way to the arcade scene but it would remove the Tetris license(not sure why that is, since the company produced 4 games with the license »
Chinese Companies Show Off Their Latest Arcades at CIAE2015
Right after the Amusement Expo happened at the end of March in Vegas, over in China another trade show was firing up to show off products for that corner of the world. I’ve covered Chinese trade shows as best as I can given the information that trickles out from them – they can be »
Stern’s Latest Pin Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons Is Now Available
Stern has sent out a press release today announcing the “immediate availability” of their newest table, the tongue-in-cheek Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons. That theme has rustled the feathers of some out there in social media, to which I am guessing they never have seen a pinball machine from the 70s and prior, which »
JAEPO 2015 Begins: The Latest On Arcades In Japan (Part 1)
The biggest Japanese arcade trade show of the year is upon us once again, here is a collection of the various announcements and happenings from the JAEPO 2015 event in Tokyo. (Update: Part 2 is here) Bandai Namco Harada looking thrilled as he dons a Pikachu suit. They have announced that Pokkén Tournament will »
Japan Fighter News: New KOF in the Works; Nitro+ Blasters Heroine Infinite Duel On Test
Given the time of year that it is, we don’t get a ton of new arcade news to discuss but in places like Japan they do like to cook up some new things around this time. A year ago it was the new Silent Scope and this year it is all about the fighting »
IAAPA 2014 Mega-Post: The Latest Arcade Games Coming To The West
With this post I can finally breath a sigh of relief as it means that my IAAPA 2014 coverage is wrapped up. The amount of video to edit and comment on was significant this year and with so much media to sift through, it is easy for something to get lost. So here is »
Capcom Has Tested Luigi’s Mansion Arcade In Japan
(Thanks to ECM for the tip) Back on October 30th, a new location test began in Japan that interestingly enough seems to have avoided most of the Japanese arcade newswires. That is a fairly rare thing to occur, especially when you have a license/name like Luigi attached to it. Here is the loctest promo »
Bandai Namco Testing Synchronica In Japan
While most attention on rhythm/music gaming in Japan is soaked up by Konami, that doesn’t stop other developers there from trying their hand at it. Sega has titles like Project DIVA and MaiMai; Taito has Groove Coaster and Music GunGun; Namco has Taiko No Tatsujin. Now Bandai Namco can add something new to the »
Tekken 7 Begins Location Testing in Japan
Not surprising news on this one since in Japan, companies will regularly use location tests as a way to both market and publicly test their arcade games out. For those that want to get their hands on Tekken 7, they jsut have to show up at one of the facilities that happen to be »
Newsbytes: Mortal Kombat Reunion, Japan Arcade Games On Test
It’s hard to believe we are pretty much at July already. Speaking of the date, yesterday was Atari’s anniversary which I think we could consider National Video Arcade Day. So Happy Belated Video Arcade Day everyone 😉 I have mentioned several times a video that I wanted to have up for E3 week. That »
Now Testing In South Korea: Beatcraft Cyclon
(Thanks to Phil Arrington for the links!) A new rhythm/music game is now on test in South Korea, brought to the world by a new company called Nurijoy. Nurijoy is made up of some of the same people that worked on PentaVision’s DJMAX Technika series, before PV ended the series. Their new game, called »
