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JAEPO 2019: The Exa-Arcadia Thread
The Japanese Amusement Expo (JAEPO) has begun, and with it the world gets to see what Japanese game makers are cooking up for locations there. Most of the time, announcements and games are not
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Devil Engine Announced For Arcades Via Exa-Arcadia
The “drip, drip, drip” of arcade announcements for the upcoming EXA board continues! The last main announcement for the platform was of an odd multiplayer marathon game by the name of Nippon Marathon Turbo
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Exa-Arcadia – News, Footage & An In-Depth Interview!
The site has been fairly quiet this week as I took a Summer vacation with the family to the California Extreme even in San Jose, CA. That included time beyond the two days of
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Newsbytes: Iron Maiden Pinball; Dancerush Stardom; Arcade Post-Mortems; JPO IN SLC
Welcome to Newsbytes, our little collection of arcade & pinball news for the weekend. Note that we had to correct something on the Buckzilla article so that has been updated. Also, I’m hearing from
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Unreleased Arcade Shooter Wing Force (Atlus) Rises From The Grave
Back in 1993, a company by the name of A.I. was working on a new vertical scrolling shooting game called Wing Force. Atlus would publish the game but as things worked out, the game
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SkyCurser – Discussion And Unboxing Of This New JAMMA Arcade Kit
As mentioned on the blog the other day, I was expecting a new game to arrive into my hands this week that has some very interesting potential for our industry at large. Known as
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New Exclusive Preview For Skycurser
Back in February, I posted about an upcoming arcade shoot ’em up by the name of Skycurser. Developed by a small team under a company name of Griffin Aerotech, they were seeking to create
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Coming Soon To JAMMA-based Arcades: Skycurser
Before you ask, no this is not an old story from 1992. Lately the trend towards big name, big cost games has been gaining steam but so has the occasional indie arcade game development.
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Nave Arcade, the Argentinan Arcade Game
(Thanks to Adam Coate for the tip) Arcade game development is generally found in a few particular areas of the world but with time comes expansion. We have previously covered games created in countries
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Dariusburst Another Chronicle Now Available For Purchase Worldwide
We’ve been covering the progress of Taito’s epic shooter Dariusburst Another Chronicle for a while now and after seeing it released in Japan last year and then tested in Europe and the US this
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NG:DEV TEAM bringing Last Hope Pink Bullets to the NeoGeo MVS
Earlier this year a development team based in Germany released a brand new shmup title for the NeoGeo MVS called Fast Striker. The game has been well received at several Japanese game centers and
Read More »Fast Striker released for the NeoGeo MVS
This past April we first heard about a new game for the NeoGeo MVS called Fast Striker by NG:DEV.TEAM in Germany. Now some months later the developers have had a chance to test the
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