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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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IAAPA 2017: Raw Thrills booth with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Injustice Arcade; X Games Snow Boarder
The first official day of IAAPA 2017 is over and with that, I have had a chance to play some of the latest games that are headed to the amusement industry. For American developer
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Touring Orlando & Dallas Arcades + A Quick Visit To Disney Quest
The site has been sort of quiet lately as I have been out and about travelling in the warm state of Florida, then a visit to Dallas for Amusement Expo. Not to mention spending
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Arcade Parts & Game Boards Go Up For Auction in Michigan
It has been a while since we have mentioned an auction of arcade games and/or parts. While arcade games individually or as lots pop up every now and then, it isn’t all the time
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Why Arcades Haven’t Died In The United States
This past week, I had a few readers point out an article by Brian Ashcraft on Kotaku entitled Why Arcades Haven’t Died In Japan. It offers up that writer’s perspective as to why the
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More Bar Arcades: Recbar (KY); Harrogate’s Lounge (TN)
Hot on the heels of our story yesterday on four new places to play arcades comes two more locations – the more the merrier 🙂 These two locations are bars with arcades, which continues
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Amusement Expo 2016: The Wrap Up
Amusement Expo 2016 has come and gone and as we find with any trade show, we come away with some videos of new games. If you live in the Western USA and didn’t get
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BayTek Games Acquires Skee-ball Amusement Games
When it comes to fixtures in the amusement/arcade industry, Skee-ball is certainly up there, having sold their legendary Skee-ball machines beginning in 1914. While that type of game is supposed to be known as
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UPDATE: Bandai Namco NOT Halting Arcade Development
We’ve all heard the phrase: “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Unfortunately exaggerated death reports of the arcade industry have existed in some form or another since the industry crash back in
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The Unreleased Arcade Concepts Of Amazement Machines
Prototype and unreleased concepts have always been fascinating to me, particular in the video game arena. There are a plethora of reasons as to why a product might not ever make it out of
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Sega Amusements Europe Now Called Sega Amusements International Ltd
This is more of an ‘inside baseball’ post but for those in the industry it is newsworthy. When it comes to Sega there is often confusion in the public at large about the different
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Article: Running An Arcade in 2015
(Thanks to everyone that sent this in) I don’t have a lot that I think I can add to this article entitled “Running An Arcade in 2015” over at Polygon.com – just that it
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