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Arcade & Pinball Releases For 2017

December 30, 2016, Comments Off on 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 »

Pump It Up Prime 2 2017 Arcade Details

Pump It Up Prime 2 2017 Arcade Details

December 21, 2016, 4 Comments on Pump It Up Prime 2 2017 Arcade Details

With Pump It Up Prime 2 shipping out soon, we’ve received some additional details on the game to discuss so let’s get to it! Thanks to Ryan at Andamiro for the information. Pump It Up Prime 2 Shipping January 2017 First off, let’s get to the release as fans are wanting to know when »

Newsbytes: Indiana Town Unbans Pinball; Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots; AVATAR Pinball Color

Newsbytes: Indiana Town Unbans Pinball; Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots; AVATAR Pinball Color

December 17, 2016, No Comments on Newsbytes: Indiana Town Unbans Pinball; Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots; AVATAR Pinball Color

Hello again fellow Arcade Heroes! It has been a little while since we did Newsbytes so let’s see what quick items have been happening out there. You can blame IAAPA for disrupting out normal Newsbytes reports but that’s ok. We’ll take that kind of disruption every once in a while 😉 Let’s get to »

US Edition of Bandai Namco’s Mario Kart Arcade GP DX To Receive Final Update

US Edition of Bandai Namco’s Mario Kart Arcade GP DX To Receive Final Update

December 12, 2016, 5 Comments on US Edition of Bandai Namco’s Mario Kart Arcade GP DX To Receive Final Update

We have been following the 3rd arcade installment of Mario Kart since it was first shown in Japan in 2013. Since then, a US version was released and various online updates were offered for the units to refresh the game and bring players back to it. Today, Bandai Namco announced the “final” online update to »

Cruis’n Blast Arcade Now Available

Cruis’n Blast Arcade Now Available

December 9, 2016, 9 Comments on Cruis’n Blast Arcade Now Available

We’ve been covering the latest edition of Cruis’n for a little while now and earlier this week, I received confirmation from Betson (a major arcade game distributor) that they have received Cruis’n Blast units to deliver to buyers. That’s the long way of saying that the game has been released! As such, if you »

Colorized Pinball Updates: Cactus Canyon; Family Guy; Congo; Dracula

Colorized Pinball Updates: Cactus Canyon; Family Guy; Congo; Dracula

November 30, 2016, No Comments on Colorized Pinball Updates: Cactus Canyon; Family Guy; Congo; Dracula

Developments to colorize older monochromatic pinball machines continues apace thanks to the ColorDMD company. Since it has been a little while, here are the latest games to enjoy the wonderful world of color dots: Cactus Canyon (Bally Williams) Right before Bally gave up the pinball ghost in pursuing Pinball 2000 technology (and then gambling »

IAAPA 2016 Part 5: Virtual and Augmented Reality; Simulators; Bowling

IAAPA 2016 Part 5: Virtual and Augmented Reality; Simulators; Bowling

November 28, 2016, No Comments on IAAPA 2016 Part 5: Virtual and Augmented Reality; Simulators; Bowling

IAAPA 2016: Final Coverage To finish our IAAPA 2016 coverage, we will close with what many in the video game industry as a whole is betting on being the ‘next big thing’. Thanks to that, a lot of money is being poured into the R&D of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality products that work »

Newsbytes: Skycurser; Soul Reverse Arcade; Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots Arcade

Newsbytes: Skycurser; Soul Reverse Arcade; Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots Arcade

November 26, 2016, No Comments on Newsbytes: Skycurser; Soul Reverse Arcade; Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots Arcade

Welcome To The Latest Newsbytes If you are new to the site, welcome. Thanks for following us for your arcade news. The Newsbytes posts are generally something we run on Saturday to compile quick arcade news from the week that we might have missed or may not have warranted a full post by itself. »

IAAPA 2016 PART 4: Pinball; Videmption

IAAPA 2016 PART 4: Pinball; Videmption

November 25, 2016, No Comments on IAAPA 2016 PART 4: Pinball; Videmption

It’s been a week since IAAPA 2016 closed up but there’s more to cover so with this post, let’s check out Pinball and some of the Videmption/Redemption games as seen at the event! Previous coverage in case you missed it IAAPA 2016 #1 IAAPA 2016 #2 IAAPA 2016 #3 Pinball Dialed In! Pinball (Jersey »

IAAPA 2016 Part 3 – Gun Games; Rhythm Games

IAAPA 2016 Part 3 – Gun Games; Rhythm Games

November 22, 2016, No Comments on IAAPA 2016 Part 3 – Gun Games; Rhythm Games

Continuing our IAAPA 2016 coverage, today we are going to focus on two categories of titles found at the show last week: Gun games, Rhythm games. I was going to put Pinball here too but the post was becoming too large 😉 Assorted IAAPA Items But before that, let’s highlight a new Air Hockey »

New Arcades: Kongs of Kings(UK); Soda Parlor(TN); D&B (MD)

New Arcades: Kongs of Kings(UK); Soda Parlor(TN); D&B (MD)

November 22, 2016, 1 Comment on New Arcades: Kongs of Kings(UK); Soda Parlor(TN); D&B (MD)

Business hasn’t come to a halt amidst IAAPA, so let’s take a breather from that to shine a light on some new arcades opening up out there. Kongs of Kings Opening A Bar/Arcade In Cardiff (UK) (Thanks to Kieran M. for the tip) A new bar/arcade is coming to the city of Cardiff with »

IAAPA 2016 Part 2 – Racing Edition (Daytona 3, Cruis’n Blast, Maximum Tune 5, Ultra Race)

IAAPA 2016 Part 2 – Racing Edition (Daytona 3, Cruis’n Blast, Maximum Tune 5, Ultra Race)

November 19, 2016, 5 Comments on IAAPA 2016 Part 2 – Racing Edition (Daytona 3, Cruis’n Blast, Maximum Tune 5, Ultra Race)

It’s been a busy, busy week with IAAPA 2016 in full swing. Every IAAPA has lots to see and do but this one felt busier than usual. Since video editing is consuming my time, let’s share some videos and a little more info. I’m going to focus on racing games at the moment since »