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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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The Arcade Heroes 2018 Year-In-Review
2019 is upon us, which means that it is time to take a look back at the arcade, pinball and other amusement news of 2018. The State Of The Industry 2018 2018 has been
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New Arcade Locations: Tiltz (NY); Nat’l Video Game Museum (UK); The Retro (TN); The Pizza Ranch (NE); Prince Arcades (IL); & More
Welcome to December, and with that, it’s time to get you up-to-speed with various new arcade locations that have opened their doors for business. Many of these were supposed to be talked about last
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RIP Heighway Pinball
Last week we heard a ‘rumbling’ that UK based pinball manufacturer Heighway Pinball was filing for bankruptcy. Now, that has been confirmed as a public notice regarding the liquidation of the company’s assets will
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Business Is Good; Top 10 Posts On Arcade Heroes Of 2017
The Arcade Business Is Doing Well 2017 has been an awesome year for arcade gaming. From a business perspective, myself and many others have seen profits increase as interest has held strong for people
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