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Kevin Williams: The SEGA Situation
Let’s start the week with an opinion piece, where site friend and industry specialist Kevin Williams weighs in on what’s been happening with SEGA over in Japan. Take it away, Kevin: Opinion Piece: The
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What Is Happening With The Sale Of Sega’s Arcade Business In Japan?
This story was exploding over the internet this morning, and unfortunately, I’ve been seeing a lot of comments on this that are incorrect or spreading the false idea that arcades are done in Japan
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Sega Amusements Int’l Fully Re-Opens
The news cycle for the past few months has been a cycle of closures, indefinite closures, re-openings, & re-closures. It’s been a little hard to track it all, since every industry has been affected
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Will Chuck E. Cheeses Survive?
I’m not leading this story with the headline “Chuck E. Cheeses files for bankruptcy,” as it seems to be taken incorrectly by some. Unfortunately, I’ve found that many “readers” on both Facebook and Twitter
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June 3rd, 2020 – Sega Marks 60 Years Of Gaming
60 years ago today, Sega was formed by a trio of partners looking to supply amusement needs to other businesses in Japan. “The rest is history” as they say, and to celebrate the people
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Pandemic Shutdown Updates: The Slow Act Of Re-Opening
It’s been a little bit since we had an update on the happenings within the industry since the pandemic made chaos a daily part of life, so let’s get you up to speed on
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Jersey Jack Pinball Moving Manufacturing Operations To Illinois
Well, news has been pretty slow in the arcade world this week, so I’m going to highlight a piece of news that I would normally leave for our Newsbytes. Yesterday, Jersey Jack Pinball issued
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Location Watch Japan: As One Arcade Closes, Many Open
(Post cover photo via Atlas Obscura; also thanks to everyone who send the news about Anata No Warehouse in) It has been a little while since our last Location Watch post, either due to
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Location Watch: The Game Preserve #2 (TX); The Game Show (IL); Laffy Happy Arcade (TX); The Pinball Arcade Museum (FL) & More
It’s time to get everyone up to speed on the latest arcade & amusement locations to have opened their doors out there. If you are involved with a location that opened recently or is
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Raw Thrills Launches Advertising Kits For Injustice & Halo
Throughout the ages of arcade production, manufacturers have all had their own ways in going about promoting the content they make. Generally speaking, video games have seen a lot more efforts in this regard
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Location News: Arcade Club Leeds (UK); Arcade City #5 (NV); The Eberson (MI) & More
Hello fellow arcade users, it’s time to showcase a number of brand spanking new arcades that are bringing some coin-op gaming goodness to the world. We wish the best of luck to all of
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New Locations: FEC Expansion In CA, CO, IL, MI, NJ, UT; Galloping Ghost Pinball (IL); Player One Arcade Pub (GA)
For our first look at the latest locations to open their doors around the world for this month of March, we have quite a few places to talk about. The explosion in FEC’s continues
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