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Newsbytes: King Kong VR Chapter 3; Winner Winner App; New Arcade Books; Super Hoop Pinball & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news items from around the Arcade & Pinball world for your reading enjoyment. King Kong of Skull Island Adds A 3rd Chapter Operators who have a King Kong
Read More »Two New Arcade Games From Coastal: Ice Walker & Zombie Land
After a bit of a hiatus, it seems that videmption games are swinging back into action on the market, as mentioned yesterday with Sega’s Jumanji and now a couple more titles from Coastal Amusements.
Read More »Sega Unveils Their Take On Video Arcade Basketball, Allstars Basketball
The modern arcade has been full of games that blur the line between a video arcade game and something else – that is particularly true of the genre I call “videmption”, and I think
Read More »Unboxing SpaceWarp 66
My second acquisition of the year is now complete, as I recently purchased a SpaceWarp 66 from Touch Magix (purchased through one of the distributors I often use). Here’s the video; If you missed
Read More »GENDA-Owned Sega Arcades To Change Name To GiGO In Japan
Today, it was revealed that Genda completed their purchase of Sega’s amusement operations division, purchasing the remaining 15% of shares. As a part of that, they changed the name of their company to GENDA
Read More »Newsbytes: RIP Lyman Sheats; Park Avenue 2022; NeoXperience; New Games For PlayChoice-10 & Much More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated collection of news from the world of arcades & pinball, run on the weekends. As a note, I am working on a new Location Watch post and continue to
Read More »Prop Cycle-Style Sky Riders by Ace Amusement Is Now Available In The US
Way back in February of last year, I ran a story about an interesting new game that had launched over in the UK/EU via a distributor called UDC; The name of the game was
Read More »Bandai Namco Amusements Launches Maximum Tune 5DX+ In North America
It’s unusual for us to have a specific release date for arcade games here in the West – often times games will just ship without public notice until they just appear on location. Fortunately
Read More »The Arcade Anniversaries of 2022 (25, 40 & 50 Year Milestones)
It’s a new year, and with arcade news being a tiny bit slow, I figured it would be a good time to bring an old article series back – looking at arcade anniversaries. This
Read More »Newsbytes: Arcade 1up Pro, Funhouse 2.0 & Some Other Assorted Arcade News
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post where we take a quick look at bits of arcade & pinball news from around the world. It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these as
Read More »Pre-Orders Open For Akai Katana/Crimson Katana EXA Label
Arcade shoot ’em ups aren’t as strong as they used to be on the North American market, but the genre isn’t dead. Thanks to the efforts of some indie companies and now exA-Arcadia, fans
Read More »Sega Launches Mission: Impossible Arcade DX in North America & Europe
Let’s start of 2022 with a bang – we have our first game release of the year to report on, and some updates on a few other games. As the headline mentions, Sega Amusements
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