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Location Watch February 2025: New Arcades All Around The World
Welcome to Location Watch, an occasional series of posts on Arcade Heroes that focus on brand new arcade businesses that have opened their doors recently. We cover them from any part of the world,
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Raw Thrills Unveils Wizard of Oz Videmption Game For Arcades
While licenses are nothing new in the industry, one that has been extremely popular among a variety of manufacturers has been The Wizard of Oz. It’s been used for pinball and coin pushers, and
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Raw Thrills Reveals Top Gun Maverick For Arcades
Top Gun Maverick is one of the biggest movies to come along in the past few years, and given the action-packed premise, what better film to turn into an arcade game than this? That’s
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Pop-A-Shot Returns To Arcades With The Pop-A-Shot Elite
When I started selling arcade machines back in 2011, I would often get requests for arcade basketball machines – not just from businesses, but often from residential customers. They would almost always call the
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Desert Chase & Cannonball Jam Are Now Available From Blue Motion Games
Previously on Arcade Heroes, we mentioned the arrival of a new company to the industry fray by the name of Blue Motion Games. Spearheaded by industry veteran Salim Sabbagha, the company was at IAAPA
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exA-Arcadia Updates: Airgallet EXA Label; Daemon Bride exAgain; More
Time for some more news on exA-Arcadia, as they have just held an “exALive” streaming event in Japan. The focus was on showcasing some previously announced titles that will be available very soon, so
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Sega’s Maimai DX Is Headed To Amusement Expo 2025
Thanks to everyone who sent this in! It’s now February, which means that we’re a month and a half away from the next major arcade industry trade show, Amusement Expo International. It’s often been
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Game Updates + Cambria Sword Another Cry AC Now Available
We’ve got two quick bits of news to share with you today about new releases for the arcade industry, including one game that just began shipping. But before we get to that, let’s update
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Atari’s Missile Command Returning To Arcades With Missile Command Recharged By Alan-1
This past weekend, Alan-1 held their second annual Major League eSports League World Championship. While we had made an update in regards to the winner of that tournament, along with a brief note in
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Alan-1 Holds Second Annual Major League eSports League World Championship
A battle for fortune & glory is underway, as the second annual Major League eSports World Championship is now happening in Utah. Let’s see what it’s all about: What Is MLeS & The Championship?
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New Arcade Releases: Avian Knights (Alan-1); Sailor’s Quest 2 VR (UNIS); Super Drill (Ace)
It’s time to catch up on new arcade releases for North America, with three games that are available now to order from Alan-1, Ace Amusement/Amusement Source International, and UNIS/IGS. Also as a quick note,
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EAG 2025 Recap – New Arcade Games In Europe
The earliest major amusement trade expo of the year, EAG 2025 (Entertainment Attractions & Gaming Expo), has now long come and gone at London’s ExCel venue, so it’s high time we looked at all
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