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Newsbytes: Arcade & Pinball @ CES 2020; Arcade Sidekick & More
It’s 2020 and it’s time for our first Newsbytes of the year! If you’re new around here, this is where we take a look at some quick items from around the arcade world to
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Arcade Anniversaries In 2020
With a new year and decade upon us, it’s time to alert everyone to some important anniversaries that will be coming along this year. We won’t cover every game celebrating a birthday in 2020,
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Newsbytes: Pac-Man 40th; CarnEvil 21st & Other Milestones
Welcome to this rushed edition of Newsbytes, a collection of quick arcade-related news pieces that I try and post on Saturday. That didn’t work out thanks to a load of work that I had
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Newsbytes: Pinball Hall of Fame & Bowl Expo; Scorbit; 90’s Namco & More
Hello everyone, and welcome to another fine edition of Newsbytes. Today will be a little focused on items from Bowl Expo, where I’ll alert you that I’m feeling a little more critical today than
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Bandai Namco Revives Arcade Classics As LBE-VR Titles At New Location in Japan
I mentioned in the last post that we’d have another Location Based Entertainment Virtual Reality (LBE-VR for those that don’t want to spout that mouthful every time) piece to discuss today, and here we
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Namco USA Arcade Operations Expanding & Re-branding As Pac-Man Entertainment
(Thanks to everyone who sent this in! h/t to The Stinger Report for sending it my way first) Among the news items that I overlooked at or following IAAPA, was this press release from
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Newsbytes: Sugar Rush Arcade; More Pinball Expo News; Maximum Tune 6 Music;
Welcome to another exciting weekend of arcade news, although the news most people are going crazy about involves lottery jackpots. I don’t have anything like that to share here, so let’s get into the
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Pac-Man’s Pixel Bash Chill Offers Licensed Multi-gaming For Man Caves
Last month (cutting it close here ;P ), Bandai Namco pulled back the curtain on a follow-up to their Pac-Man’s Arcade Party classic multi-game system. The new version, Pac-Man’s Pixel Bash, offered 31 games
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Bandai Namco Debuts Pac-Man’s Pixel Bash At Bowl Expo ’18
If you’ve been around the arcade business for the past couple of decades, then you likely are familiar with Bandai Namco’s re-issues of select classic arcade games in a proper arcade cabinet format. These
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Bandai Namco Resurrecting The Shoot Away Series With Shoot Away Pro
After a fairly mellow 2017, the Japanese arcade industry seems to have awoken from their slumber as we’re just getting hit with news left and right. Not complaining, just observing. 😉 Shoot Away –
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IAAPA 2017: Family Guy Bowling; Super Chexx Pro; Tap That; Maximum Tune 5
It’s been a few days since my last update but I have been busy, busy, busy with post-IAAPA ‘stuff’. There is so much that came around from this show to talk about that I
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Arcade Tour and Review: King Waldorf’s Palace Arcade at Marineland Theme Park, Niagara Falls Ontario Canada
Recently I had a chance to check out the King Waldorf’s Palace arcade at Marineland, in Niagara Falls Ontario Canada. This arcade is within the theme park, so you will have to pay theme
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