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Jitsu Squad Featuring Samurai Pizza Cats Unveiled At Amusement Expo 2024

Jitsu Squad Featuring Samurai Pizza Cats Unveiled At Amusement Expo 2024

arcadehero March 21, 2024 2

exA-Arcadia is at Amusement Expo 2024 in Las Vegas, and the headliner game for their booth is Jitsu Squad Feat. The Samurai Pizza Cats. Read on for the details. Who Are The Samurai Pizza

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New Beat ‘Em Up Headed To Arcades In 2022: Jitsu Squad by Tanuki Creative Studios.

New Beat ‘Em Up Headed To Arcades In 2022: Jitsu Squad by Tanuki Creative Studios.

arcadehero February 24, 2021 0

exA-Arcadia kept the arcade news flowing in 2020, but they’ve been a little quiet at the beginning of this year. Now that gets to change as we have our first new exA game announcement

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Unboxing & Reviewing The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018) Arcade Game

Unboxing & Reviewing The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018) Arcade Game

arcadehero May 12, 2018 5

Doing an”unbox” of an arcade game is not exactly done with frequency but when the opportunity arises, I do try and film it. This week was a very rare event for me at the

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Sewer Level & Shredder’s Throne Room Revealed In New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game Screenshots

Sewer Level & Shredder’s Throne Room Revealed In New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game Screenshots

arcadehero February 26, 2018 3

First unveiled last year, TMNT is one of the most surprising new developments to come from a major manufacturer in quite some time. That was certainly on display as you the readers made the

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On Test: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

On Test: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

arcadehero October 23, 2017 4

UPDATE: We have added some corrections to the story courtesy of Raw Thrills. Each one is clearly marked. No sooner did we break the news that Raw Thrills is going to launch a new version

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Coming To IAAPA 2017: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Raw Thrills

Coming To IAAPA 2017: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Raw Thrills

arcadehero October 20, 2017 24

I had been hearing “rumors” for a while now that Raw Thrills had something different up their sleeve – something related to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But without any more information than that,

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The Future Of The Airframe Platform

The Future Of The Airframe Platform

arcadehero April 14, 2017 1

We recently covered the pre-order release of the new arcade exclusive shoot ’em up Skycurser, developed by Indiana-based developer Griffin Aerotech.  When that date hit, I reached out to them with a few questions

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IGS teases Knights of Valour 3

IGS teases Knights of Valour 3

arcadehero April 28, 2011 0

Brand new 2D brawling/beat ’em up arcade games are a rarity in this day and age but they are not extinct. One company has been keeping the genre alive with an occasional release, and

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Video Review: Oriental Legend 2

Shaggy July 30, 2008 4

Sorry about the lack of video reviews lately, I have been busy working on the PCs at my arcade along with trying to fix a number of problems the arcades have been having (my

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My first impressions on Oriental Legend 2

Shaggy June 18, 2008 1

I have to keep this fairly brief as I don’t have a lot of time but Oriental Legend 2 by IGS arrived the other day and I had a chance to set it up

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IGS to release Oriental Legend 2 on February 8th

Shaggy January 19, 2008 0

It’s been a while since we mentioned anything about the IGS 2D beat ’em up Oriental Legend 2, but we now learn from The Stinger Report that the kit for the game is set

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Konami's Action Detective Heads to location test

Shaggy November 25, 2007 0

[Via The Stinger Report] (Click on the image above to enlarge) Since I first heard about this a month or two ago I have been eager to find out more about Konami’s new 3D

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