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Location Watch September 2023: The Latest Arcade Openings Around The World
Welcome to Location Watch, a series of posts that focus on brand new arcade businesses that have opened their doors recently. We cover them from any part of the world, splitting the news up
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Kevin Williams: London’s Amusement Renaissance
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes, industry specialist Kevin Williams is back and checking out the explosion of innovation and installation in a very crowded London entertainment and hospitality scene,
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Location Watch March 2022: New Arcades Open In Japan, The USA, The UK, & Australia
Welcome to Location Watch, a post that looks at tracking the opening of new arcade locations around the globe. Since you the reader might be anywhere around the planet, hopefully one of these is
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Location Watch: Arcade Grand Openings In The UK, USA (CA, IN, OH, NY, KY), & Japan
It’s time to highlight a number of recently opened arcades, with this exciting edition of Location Watch. If you put “location watch” into the search bar, you’ll find a bunch of such posts covering
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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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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: New Arcades Open From The UK to Japan
We’re almost done with October, but before the floodgates open about the latest games that you’ll find in arcades next year, let’s take a fresh look at the newest venues that are opening their
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Location News: Arcade Club Leeds (UK); Arcade City #5 (NV); The Eberson (MI) & More
Hello fellow arcade users, it’s time to showcase a number of brand spanking new arcades that are bringing some coin-op gaming goodness to the world. We wish the best of luck to all of
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A New Pinball Manufacturer Appears: Team Pinball
Gather round pinball fans, there’s another new face in town. It is very easy to be skeptical of such newcomers, especially given some of the history of what has happened with “boutique” pinball makers
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EAG 2018 Round-up: New Arcade Content For Europe
While the IAAPA trade show tends to soak up most of the arcade news that’s out there, it is not the only amusement/arcade related event of it’s kind to find out there. Every January
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Star Wars Pinball Appears At The Park Avenue Open Day (UK)
Newsfeed via We just received our first glimpses of Stern Pinball’s Star Wars this past week but for arcade operators in the UK, they have already had the chance to play it. Every year
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New Arcades: Strike 10 Bowling (FL); Funky Munky (UT); Tamba Gaming Arcade (UK); Vertigo Arcade (UK); Round1USA (GA)
Time to take a look at another round of new arcade locations that are opening out there, showing once again how arcades are still alive and thrive out in the Western world. In a
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