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Arcade April Fools Round-Up 2022
Another April Fools Day has come and gone and while some hate it with the passion of a thousand exploding stars, others find it as a way to just have some light-hearted fun. I aim for the latter – none of the AF pranks we do here are done with any malicious intent. There’s »
Location Watch March 2022: New Arcades Open In Japan, The USA, The UK, & Australia
Welcome to Location Watch, a post that looks at tracking the opening of new arcade locations around the globe. Since you the reader might be anywhere around the planet, hopefully one of these is near you but if not, search Location Watch here on the site to look fir more. Quite a few arcades »
Amusement Expo 2022 Round-Up #1 – The Latest In Arcade Games
Another amusement/arcade tradeshow has come and gone, and I was there to check Amusement Expo 2022 out. As always it’s great to see and talk with many in the business face-to-face, and play the games instead of just looking at photos or videos of them. However, not everyone can or wants to attend such »
Newsbytes: Japan Arcades Update; Deeproot Pinball Auction; Street Fighter 6 & House of the Dead Remake; More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news from around the arcade & pinball world. Stay tuned next week for Amusement Expo 2022 – while I don’t expect a deluge of new-new games appearing there, it’s still a tradeshow and should have some fun things to see. I’ll be putting out a preview post of »
EAG 2022 Wrap-Up
I was going to cover the EAG 2022 show for a Newsbytes, but I really couldn’t find much else to talk about for that post, so I figure it’s better to separate that out and give the show it’s own focus for the follow-up. This will also allow me to pack-in more info. As »
Want To Make An Arcade Game? Check Out The #NoticeMe Game Jam & The Arcade Jam Contests
When a video game becomes a proper arcade game (being put into a cabinet that can take payment of some kind to play it), we give it a highlight on this site, regardless it being developed & produced by a big company or an independent creator. We haven’t heard much from the latter since »
Newsbytes: King Kong VR Chapter 3; Winner Winner App; New Arcade Books; Super Hoop Pinball & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news items from around the Arcade & Pinball world for your reading enjoyment. King Kong of Skull Island Adds A 3rd Chapter Operators who have a King Kong VR machine from Raw Thrills will be happy to hear that there is a free update available for the game, »
Next In Videmption From Sega: Jumanji
Next month will be rather busy for Sega Amusements – they began shipping their latest light-gun game Mission: Impossible Arcade DX last month, then next they will begin shipping a few titles including VR Agent, ATV Slam SD, and the videmption game Men In Black. Soon joining these titles is another new videmption piece, »
GENDA-Owned Sega Arcades To Change Name To GiGO In Japan
Today, it was revealed that Genda completed their purchase of Sega’s amusement operations division, purchasing the remaining 15% of shares. As a part of that, they changed the name of their company to GENDA GiGO Entertainment and will remove the SEGA name from those buildings in Japan (with one exception I’ll mention below). GiGO »
The Lyman Sheats Tribute Post
It was suggested that I do a post just for Lyman Sheats and I have to agree – so let’s use this space to express your condolences for the passing of a master pinball wizard. If you aren’t familiar with Lyman, let me quote from the Newsbytes post the other day: Lyman was a »
