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Ben Heck’s Zombieadventureland Pinball coming in 2012
It now appears that there will be two unique pinball games for you to get your hands on around the beginning of 2012 – Jersey Jack Pinball’s Wizard of Oz and now John Popadiuk’s Ben Heck’s ZOMBIEADVENTURELAND Pinball. Who is John Popadiuk? He designed some great classics including Theater of Magic and Tales of »
More CAX coverage + new documentary called ARCADE
One nice thing about the annual California Extreme (CAX) annual event is that it generates a bit of media coverage for arcade and pinball machines. The latest outlet to do so is Wired.com, who looks at some of the rarer pinball machines that were found at this year’s show. (This link is Stinger Report »
Jersey Jack Pinball & Pinball Planetary Supply sign pact
(Thanks to Jon L. For the tip!) While we’ve all been eagerly awaiting to see the pinball game from Jersey Jack Pinball, Wizard of Oz Pinball, they have been working behind the scenes building up other aspects of their business to properly compete. One of those means has been to sign an agreement with »
Stern’s Rolling Stones pinball seen in Germany
(Thanks to IcePagoda for the tip!) Stern’s latest pinball game, and first title for 2011 is Rolling Stones Pinball. Stern had recently ran some teaser ads for the game in different trade magazines but this is the first time the game has been seen publicly at a pinball event in Germany. It’s certainly a »
New company setting sights on pinball: Jersey Jack Pinball
We’ve seen a few stories come along every now and then about a new company being formed to start building new pinball machines to compete with Stern but so far, no one has really produced anything to make Stern take notice. It’s not a great track record for this kind of news, but a »
IAAPA 2024 – The Preview Of Previews
IAAPA is here again, which means it is high time to see the new arcade games that will be hitting the scene in 2025. The sheer size of the show and its amount of exhibitors is a little overwhelming, but hopefully this preview and guide will help you navigate the news. If you’re new »
Attending Expos: California Extreme 2024 & Utah Retro GameXpo 2024
Things have been a little bit quiet for the blog lately, but I’ve been super busy. Big nod to Ted for helping out on many stories and drafts during this time. In the meantime, I’ve been to two gaming expos in the past few weeks, California Extreme & the Utah Retro GameXpo. With those »
Location Watch Dec. 2021: New Arcades Open Their Doors Around The World
Welcome to Location Watch, a series of posts that highlight brand new arcade locations that have recently opened their doors. Covering different parts of the world, I strive to highlight as many as I can, but there are locations that get overlooked at times, as I just don’t hear about them. If you recently »
Master List Of Unreleased Arcade Games
There are many video game developments that never saw the light of day. The reasons for them going unreleased are varied – perhaps a concept just wasn’t working out, the hardware wasn’t up to the task, it tested poorly, the budget ran out, etc. Whether or not the games were released, teams of developers »
Newsbytes: DDR ACE; Arcade Expo 3.0; Argus; NTG#80
It has been a busy weekend so far! Hopefully any of you that owns arcade locations out there are seeing good business or if you are a gamer, that you find some arcade goodness to enjoy. Here are some bits and bytes of news to enjoy – make sure you read the news about »
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 »
Coming in November: The Kong Off 3
Since the release of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, one event has come along to really capitalize on the resurgent interest behind Nintendo’s original arcade classic Donkey Kong and competitive classic gaming. That event known as the Kong Off provided a venue where the top Donkey Kong players in the world »
