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Kevin Williams: Is The Sun Setting On Japanese Amusement?
In his occasional feature for Arcade Heroes, immersive amusement and attraction entertainment specialist Kevin Williams (KWP) looks at the major issues impacting the international amusement sector, particularly in regards to Japan and their current
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Newsbytes: Pinball Expo 2021; ZOMBEEZ & Spooky Smashers; Rhythm Game News & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a blog post that curates various bits ‘n bytes of news from around the wonderful world of arcade & pinball games. Pinball Expo 2021 By all accounts I’ve heard, it sounds
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Location Watch: Arcade Grand Openings In The UK, USA (CA, IN, OH, NY, KY), & Japan
It’s time to highlight a number of recently opened arcades, with this exciting edition of Location Watch. If you put “location watch” into the search bar, you’ll find a bunch of such posts covering
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Cosmotrons Now Available As A Kit Purchase For Commercial Or Home Use
It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned the indie game Cosmotrons on the blog, but today there’s some news about it to share with you. Having launched in 2018, Cosmotrons takes the idea of
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Sega Amusements Reveals Standard Versions Of ATV Slam, Mission: Impossible And More On VR Agent
While I discussed some of Sega Amusements’ revelations for IAAPA 2021 in a post last week, today Sega posted a surprise that we’ll dig into here. Now, where I got my information on Sega’s
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Touch Magix To Debut Mega Blaster At IAAPA 2021
IAAPA 2021 is just a few weeks away, and that means that some companies are wanting to bring some attention to the new products that they’ve had in the development pipeline for quite a
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Kevin Williams Reports On The 2021 Autumn Coin-Op Show
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams returns from the UK’s last major amusement event of the season – and reveals details on some new amusement
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IAAPA 2021: Men In Black, Jumanji & VR Agent To Debut At Sega’s Booth
IAAPA is a little under a month away, and that means we’re starting to receive some news on the latest games that will debut at the world’s largest tradeshow for amusements & arcades. Our
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Cosmic Digger 3671 Now Available For Arcades + News On New Location Test Games
I’m going to do a “2fer” on this one, as the news would be pretty brief otherwise. Cosmic Digger 3671 Now Shipping The games released for 2021 expands a little, as does the library
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Bandai Namco Amusements Preps Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 6RR For Winter Release
H/T To Kamen-Rider Ex-Aid for the tip News has been rather quiet when it comes to Bandai Namco Amusements, but today an update to the beloved, and arcade exclusive, racing series Wangan Midnight Maximum
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Newsbytes: Big Buck World Champion; IAAPA EU; Moon Patrol; MaiMai Universe; & More
Welcome to October, and the first Newsbytes of the month. Hopefully, arcade news picks up a bit from where it’s been over the summer, although it’s hard to say what to expect given the
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Big Buck World Championship XIV Is Now Underway
October has just started and as we enter into the final quarter of the year, a big arcade tournament is now underway with the 14th Big Buck World Championship. Qualifiers were held on all
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