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Weekend Bytes: RIP Geoff Edwards; Glendale Arcade Auction; Industry Rants
I hope everyone is having a great weekend. Just a couple of brief news items and then a long rant. First off, news about a former host of the arcade-centric TV game show Starcade. Geoff Edwards, who hosted quite a few episodes of this 80s show, passed away early this week due to complications »
Quick Bites: RGP Opening Classic Arcade In The UK; IGS’ Monster Eye; Book Update
It has been a relatively slow week for arcade news but I have been able to scrap together a little bit to start the weekend off. First off is a new location opening; I was trying to get more information on it but for the moment I have come up short. The UK-based Retro »
The Best of Show Awards 2014 Announced by The Stinger Report & BMI Gaming
In 2011, two names that you see on this website fairly often, The Stinger Report and BMIGaming.com, came together to begin offering awards to the best arcade games found at IAAPA trade show in November. The awards are usually announced a few months after the event, with plaques presented to the winning company representatives »
EightyTwo Opening Soon In Downtown LA
On the heels of sad news of a location fully closing their doors in London, UK, on the other side of the world a new venue is prepping to open their doors. Called EightyTwo (or 82), this new venue is looking to bring some classic arcade gaming and a bar to the Arts District »
JAEPO 2014 Preview: What To Expect From Namco, Sega, Konami, and Taito
The Japan Amusement Expo 2014 (JAEPO 2014) will be getting underway tomorrow and with that, new arcade games to talk about. Unlike most Western trade shows, the Japanese market likes to promote a majority of the games they will have on hand in advance, which is helpful to any of us that won’t be »
Logan Hardware Opening Up Arcade Expansion On Feb. 14th In Chicago, IL
When it comes to arcade location news, the Chicago area gets a lot of love. Of course Illinois is the center of arcade developments in North America; that used to be California but these days pretty much every name in the business is headquartered somewhere in the state. So perhaps the two go hand-in-hand »
Arcade Games That Turn 20 & 30 This Year
Last year I ran a little article about some major classics that were having an anniversary. 1983 was a tumultuous time in video games as the home market bubble burst and the fallout from that damaged arcades too. 1984 had some continuation of that as things recovered and contrary to some amateur “historians”, there »
Videos: Crazy Speed 2 (UNIS); Vulcan EX (Yoony); Making Star Trek Pinball + More EAG
Here are a few quick arcade videos to fill in your Thursday. Just added a couple of pinball related videos as well. First is a new driving game that was originally seen at IAAPA 2013, this video being the first time I have seen it in action. Crazy Speed 2 by UNIS isn’t lacking »
Pics from the EAG Expo 2014
The first major arcade/amusement industry trade show of the year is now underway in London, UK called EAG Expo. When AH first started the event was called the ATEI Show but the results tend to be the same no matter the name of the event. Here are some pictures from the show, most of »
Chuck E Cheeses Agrees To a $950 Million Buyout Deal
(Above: Chuck in happier times) Interesting news among locations lately – while chains like Dave & Busters and Round 1 USA expand, a more famous arcade chain looks to be in some trouble. Chuck E Cheeses is the largest chain of arcade/FEC entertainment in the world, sporting nearly 600 locations, with a near total »
Japan Arcade News: Initial D8 Test; Puyo Puyo Quest Milestone; MSS Project + More
Next month a big arcade trade show will take place in Japan and in the run up to that news on new games is starting to warm up. Let’s take a look at the news hitting the wires: Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity Location Tests Starting at the end of next week, Sega »
Videos: Stern Pinball @ CES2014; A Tour of The Arcadia in Ryde (IOW, UK)
Newsfeed 1343 via Stern at CES Most of the big news I’ve heard coming out of CES has been famous movie director Michael Bay not handling teleprompter malfunctions very well but there is one company involved in the coin-op industry that has been showing their games off, Stern Pinball. While there is no shot »
