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Axel City 2 (exA-Arcadia) Pre-Orders Now Open

Axel City 2 (exA-Arcadia) Pre-Orders Now Open

arcadehero August 18, 2023 0

It’s been five years in the making although four since we first heard about Axel City 2, a sequel to a doujin fighting game released to Windows PC back in the early 00s. Among

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Bandai Namco Amusements Launches Maximum Tune 5DX+ In North America

Bandai Namco Amusements Launches Maximum Tune 5DX+ In North America

arcadehero January 12, 2022 1

It’s unusual for us to have a specific release date for arcade games here in the West – often times games will just ship without public notice until they just appear on location. Fortunately

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Cosmotrons Now Available As A Kit Purchase For Commercial Or Home Use

Cosmotrons Now Available As A Kit Purchase For Commercial Or Home Use

arcadehero October 30, 2021 1

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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Exa-Arcadia Reports Success With First Batch Of Units

Exa-Arcadia Reports Success With First Batch Of Units

arcadehero April 17, 2020 2

I’ve been on the prowl for good news in the industry where ever I can find it, and while this post is going to be brief, it certainly falls within the ‘good’ category. A

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Exa-Arcadia Systems Begin Shipping In Japan

Exa-Arcadia Systems Begin Shipping In Japan

arcadehero September 4, 2019 2

To back up the latest VLOG, this post will serve as some of the sources to the video here. But to sum it up, the EXA board by Exa-Arcadia is now shipping out to

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New Fighter: The Kung Fu Vs. Karate Champ Coming To Arcades 2018

New Fighter: The Kung Fu Vs. Karate Champ Coming To Arcades 2018

arcadehero April 26, 2018 2

UPDATE: The game was delayed until early 2020, where it did release worldwide in January of the year. We all understand just how important 1v1 fighters have been to arcades over the years but

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ExA-Arcadia To Introduce New Kit System At JAEPO 2018

ExA-Arcadia To Introduce New Kit System At JAEPO 2018

arcadehero February 7, 2018 5

Conversion kits were the bread & butter of the arcade industry around 1984 when operators already had more cabinets than they really wanted to deal with. With the introduction of the JAMMA wiring standard

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Rashlander Arcade Orders Now Open

Rashlander Arcade Orders Now Open

arcadehero November 27, 2017 4

Not long ago we found out about a new game for the Airframe JAMMA arcade platform, designed by Griffin Aerotech and launched with the horizontally scrolling shmup Skycurser. Called Rashlander, this gravity-based game is

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Sega Opens Pre-Orders For Let’s Go Island Dream Edition Conversion Kits

Sega Opens Pre-Orders For Let’s Go Island Dream Edition Conversion Kits

arcadehero June 15, 2017 0

Here’s something you don’t hear coming from major manufacturers too often these days – a new conversion kit is coming soon! Dream Raiders To Let’s Go Island Conversion Back in 2012, Sega released the

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GlobalVR Releases The Swarm Conversion Kits

GlobalVR Releases The Swarm Conversion Kits

arcadehero March 20, 2013 3

It wasn’t long ago that GlobalVR’s newest light-gun shooter, The Swarm was released as a dedicated game and here comes news that they have conversion kits available for it too. The game is mostly

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The Fast & The Furious Tokyo Drift Conversion Kit Officially released

Shaggy April 18, 2008 0

At ASI it was confirmed that Raw Thrills’ would release a conversion kit for their racer Tokyo Drift and now we have the official word that the kits are now available. As we have

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GlobalVR releases America's Army as a JAMMA kit

Shaggy January 19, 2008 0

GlobalVR has released a conversion kit for America’s Army that will work in any JAMMA cabinet in response to operator and distributor requests. According to them, more conversion kits are needed to help rejuvenate

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