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Location Watch January 2026: New Arcades Opening Across The World
Welcome to Location Watch, a series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that shares new arcades which have opened their doors all around the world. January is usually a pretty quiet month for new
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Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review 2025: Business, New Games, Top 10 Posts & More
Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2025, our annual rundown of arcade happenings across various bases. As well as the usual top 10 posts and content at the end of the post, here
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Location Watch February 2023: The Newest Places To Play Arcade Games
Welcome to the first Location Watch of the year – I likely could have done this in January but that was a very busy month for me. It is worth noting that while I
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Location Watch Dec. 2021: New Arcades Open Their Doors Around The World
Welcome to Location Watch, a series of posts that highlight brand new arcade locations that have recently opened their doors. Covering different parts of the world, I strive to highlight as many as I
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Location Watch: Pinball Growth (KY, NY, OR), New Arcades In CA, UT, FL, the UK, Croatia, India, Israel, & More
Welcome to Location Watch, a series of posts where we take a look at brand new arcade businesses that are opening their doors for the first time. This provides some good news in lieu
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June Location Watch #2: More New Arcades Open in GA, TX, AZ, MA, OK, The UK and NZ
Welcome to part 2 of our June Location Watch. If you missed Part #1, click here. This was broken up as there were so many locations opening their doors for the first time that
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Location Watch: Area 15[NV]; Game Terminal [TN]; 16-Bit Bar & Arcade [OH]; Natsuge Museum [JP] & More
Welcome to Location Watch, a post series that highlights brand new arcade locations that have opened their doors for the first time. Since news in this regard has been rather slow, we haven’t had
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What Is Happening With The Sale Of Sega’s Arcade Business In Japan?
This story was exploding over the internet this morning, and unfortunately, I’ve been seeing a lot of comments on this that are incorrect or spreading the false idea that arcades are done in Japan
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Location Watch: Mikado Europe (Spain); ArCains (UK); Arcade Club #3 (UK); Park & Rec Tampa and more;
We’re in the middle of December already, so it’s a good time to get you up-to-date on the latest happenings in the wonderful world of new arcades – specifically, arcade locations/businesses that have opened
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Location Watch: Wilcox Arcade, Player 1up, Stardust Pinbar, Mr. Pixels and More
It’s been a slow news month for arcades, making this post the only location watch post we’ll have for August, but that’s ok. There are still new venues opening their doors out there, showing
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