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New Locations: Round 1 Santa Ana, Nightowl Toronto; Emporium San Fransisco
Busy day for some arcade news, all of the sudden. Thanks to Michael Louie for the tips on all of these news items, all involving new locations. Round1USA Opens In Santa Ana, CA –
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Star Wars Battle Pod Gets A Special Home Release
(Thanks to Kevin Williams for the tip) I meant to get to this yesterday but was occupied with working on the latest podcast(which we also forgot to mention on the podcast…whoops). Here’s the headline:
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Newsbytes: Polybius Doc; Walking Dead Update; Heighway Pinball Update; NTG#45
In the US many are out and about thanks to it being Memorial Day weekend, which is (or at least should be) one of the more solemn holidays. For most it also marks the
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Looking Back At Pac-Man As The Game Turns 35
Today marks the 35th anniversary of a legend in video gaming, particularly in arcades. That would be the arcade release of Namco’s Pac-Man to Japanese arcades. There is a big celebration going on at
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Video Tuesday: New Pixels Trailer; Say What You Want Pinball Vid; KISS Pinball Footage
Ok so the words ‘video’ and ‘Tuesday’ don’t rhyme but let’s not keep that from sharing some news. New Pixels Trailer – Skip if you want to avoid a few spoilers, like many near
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The Pinball Lounge Open In Oviedo, FL; Tappers Arcade Bar Coming to Indianapolis, IN
Welcome to Monday everyone, let’s start the week out with some new arcade location news! The Pinball Lounge – First, a location that just opened their doors this past weekend near amusement park central
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Newsbytes: Magic Girl Pin; Tempest 2000; Chocovader; NTG#44
It’s been another slow news week and today’s bundle of news reflects that as I had to really scrub the internet just for small news items. In the mean time if you haven’t listened
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Raw Thrills Starts An Offensive Against Arcade Pirates
Since the beginning of the video arcade industry, popular games and their creators have had to deal with the piracy dilemma. If a game sells well then someone will try and copy it exactly
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Newsbytes: Yoshimitsu; GTI Asia Taipei 2015; Wahlap; NTG#43
Good weekend everyone and to the mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day tomorrow. My mom is not a gamer by any means but she put up with my little obsession, among other things that
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Virtual Reality Entertainment Centers Looking To Be Setup Around The Globe Via The Void
[Thanks to the DNA Association for the tip] Lately I’ve had some lively debates with some random people on the internet over “the next big thing in gaming”, virtual reality. That is because I
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Enjoy 30 Minutes of AOU/AM Show Footage from 1991 & ’92
These days we all expect to see footage of arcade games from trade shows or venues since cameras are found everywhere. But that wasn’t the case from the earlier days of arcade gaming when
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Newsbytes: From Kung Fury To Color Metallica and Skycurser
Happy May everyone. Here’s hoping it will bring us some more awesome arcade news – for April the most popular post was definitely the news on the Kung Fu Master 2 discovery. For what I
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