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Custom Coin Mech Reject Button Art by Tighe

Custom Coin Mech Reject Button Art by Tighe

arcadehero February 22, 2012 0

Here’s an idea that I’ve thought of on occasion although never looked into it – changing the art on your coin mech reject buttons. It’s been crossing my mind more often lately as at

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AOU2012 Mega Videos Post

AOU2012 Mega Videos Post

arcadehero February 18, 2012 3

Now that a little time has passed, here come the videos from the AOU event taking place in Japan this week, with enough footage to keep anyone busy for a little while. The only

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Happy AOU Day! New arcade games from Japan

Happy AOU Day! New arcade games from Japan

arcadehero February 17, 2012 4

The slow early year news cycle has had us counting down to this event in Japan, the AOU Expo where different amusement companies get together to show off some of their latest ideas and

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New Big Buck Hunter Title To Be Unveiled Next Month In Las Vegas

New Big Buck Hunter Title To Be Unveiled Next Month In Las Vegas

arcadehero February 15, 2012 2

AOU is just a couple of days away where we will see some new arcade products in Japan but when it comes to games that intended more for a Western release, the Amusement Expo

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Arcade Retro Throwback Cereal Boxes At Target

Arcade Retro Throwback Cereal Boxes At Target

arcadehero February 13, 2012 0

When I was a kid I enjoyed breakfast cereal just like anyone else and I have a couple of memories of the cereal boxes back then. I remember this E.T. cereal and these weird

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Timezone Eyes Further Expansion in 2012 After A Great 2011

Timezone Eyes Further Expansion in 2012 After A Great 2011

arcadehero February 10, 2012 0

(Thanks to Kieran for the tip!) We’ve had a slew of reports of small arcades opening their doors in the US recently but what about news from some larger arcade chains? One chain of

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Namco’s AOU Line-Up Unveiled

Namco’s AOU Line-Up Unveiled

arcadehero February 8, 2012 0

Next week is the AOU show and now it’s Namco’s turn to draw attention to some of the products they will have there. There are a couple of games which are no-brainers – Tekken

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King of fighters XIII Climax testing in Japan this Sat/Sun

King of fighters XIII Climax testing in Japan this Sat/Sun

arcadehero February 6, 2012 3

Much like Golden Tee, every year you can expect to see some sort of new King Of Fighters game for arcades and while they aren’t coming out with KOF14 quite yet, a new update

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Coin-op alumni brought together to make new iPad games

Coin-op alumni brought together to make new iPad games

arcadehero February 3, 2012 4

Newsfeed 1165 via I can’t say I particularly care for this trend of news that deals with more with mobile devices lately than actual arcades, but the kind of news that we generally focus

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Triangle Services/ Sega bringing Love Arcade to AOU2012 + Flying Robots

Triangle Services/ Sega bringing Love Arcade to AOU2012 + Flying Robots

arcadehero February 2, 2012 2

As mentioned yesterday, news will be trickling out about the upcoming AOU 2012 event in Japan that takes place in about two weeks and today Sega opened up some of their plans as to

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What’s coming to AOU2012 (Part 1)

What’s coming to AOU2012 (Part 1)

arcadehero February 1, 2012 3

Newsfeed 1162 & 1163 via If you didn’t get a fill from the EAG show last week then never fear, another arcade trade show is just around the corner, this time in Japan. The

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Cave unveils Dodonpachi Saidaioujou for Arcades

Cave unveils Dodonpachi Saidaioujou for Arcades

arcadehero January 30, 2012 6

The Dodonpachi series has created a strong following in circles of shmup players and while it had seemed for a time that Cave might give up on arcades in favor of developments elsewhere, that

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