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The IAAPA Expo Europe 2024 Round-Up
The biggest IAAPA Expo Europe event to date has now wrapped up, and thanks to our sources that have been out there in Amsterdam this week (and some official social media channels), we can
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The EAG 2024 Recap – New Arcade Games For Europe
EAG 2024 has come and gone, and following our early preview we’re here to provide you with a rundown of the new games that were on hand. Some photos come courtesy of Kevin Williams
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IAAPA Expo Europe 2023 Preview
IAAPA is here, although it’s not “the” IAAPA that is implied in most of my posts. IAAPA themselves are an amusement industry related trade organization and they put together various shows throughout each year.
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New For Europe: Air Zone Deluxe; Bullseye Crackshot; Stern Pins
I’m running a few days behind on this news, but two UK-based distributors (Electrocoin and UDC) held their 35th annual Park Avenue Open Day. This is where some new games for the amusement business
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Checking Out EAG 2023 – From Afar
I first discovered Arcade Heroes back in January 2007 when the then UK-based crew attended what was called ATEI. I was amazed to learn that there was anyone covering the arcade industry, then I
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Kevin Williams Reports On The 2021 Autumn Coin-Op Show
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams returns from the UK’s last major amusement event of the season – and reveals details on some new amusement
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Looking At Electrocoin’s Skill Shooter
One game that really stood out at IAAPA 2019, was the Western arrival of Taito’s airsoft gun target shooting game, then known as Gun Arena (soon renamed to OnPoint). This primarily stood out for
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Newsbytes: Mr Do! Returning To Arcades; Smash Bros Arcade; Arcade History & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a weekend/bi-weekend curation of news items from around the arcade world. I tried to find something from pinball too, but it seems fairly quiet there right now. I finally had the
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EAG Expo 2013 First Look – Dead Heat Riders, Sega Booth, Electrocoin, UNIS
Today the EAG Expo 2013 took place and with it, some new stuff. AH writer HeavyElectricity (Nick Thorpe) was there to check everything out and he will be providing a larger and more detailed
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Changes for Gamewax’s Go Go Grand Prix
(Thanks to Joe for the tip!) You might have thought it never went anywhere but Gamewax‘s unique coin-op slot racing title Go Go Grand Prix has changed hands. It is no longer being carried
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Darius Burst Another Chronicle English Version First Look + More From Electrocoin UK Show
Newsfeed 1052 via Some months ago we revealed that Taito’s 4-player arcade exclusive shmup Darius Burst Another Chronicle game would in fact be making it outside of Japan with a special English version of
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EAG 2011 – Full report
The January trade show season is always exciting, isn’t it? New games, lots of people, general excitement. For a few days, a part of London is all about the amusement trade. This year, however,
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