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DSM Arcade’s Perfect Pour brings intuitive four-tap gameplay, social appeal and venue-focused features to bars, breweries and other locations.
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From TAAPE and GTI Asia to Amusement Expo, IAAPA and Pinball Expo, here is RETROCADE’s guide to the arcade industry’s busy 2024 trade-show season.
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Golden Tee PGA Tour 2025 brings new courses, contests, seasons and gameplay modes to Incredible Technologies’ long-running commercial golf arcade series.
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Blue Motion Games enters the amusement market with Amega simulator partnerships, original arcade projects and plans for North American FEC operators.
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Jersey Jack Pinball’s Avatar: The Battle For Pandora is now shipping, with two editions, dual lower playfields and a feature-packed Pandora theme.
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Day one at GTI Asia China Expo 2024 highlights Wahlap, Monster Eye 3, licensed arcade games and Bandai Namco’s surprise Chinese showcase.
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UNIS brought racing, card battlers, VR attractions and licensed arcade games to GTI Asia China Expo 2024, including the cyberpunk motorbike racer Neon Rush.
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GTI Asia China Expo 2024’s final day revealed new Chinese arcade shooters, racers, redemption machines, VR attractions and emerging trends for international operators.
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Sega’s NAOMI transformed late-1990s arcade development through Dreamcast-based hardware, flexible media, third-party support and a remarkable range of applications.
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Bay Tek is testing two fresh arcade concepts: ICEE Slush Rush, a drink-filling videmption game, and Battleship: Bounce Off, a ball-toss redemption challenge.
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Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix unveil Angry Birds Boom!, a competitive two-player redemption cabinet with destructible scenes, force-feedback launchers and ticket play.
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IAAPA Expo Europe 2024 showcased new arcade games, redemption machines, cranes, pinball, VR and immersive attractions across a record-breaking Amsterdam exhibition.
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FixEight EXA LABEL brings Toaplan’s 1992 run-and-gun shooter back to arcades with four-player play, new modes, updated presentation and two kit options.
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UNIS confirms Bigfoot Smash and previews Sailor’s Quest VR 2 and Monster Kart, three arcade releases spanning motion driving, VR shooting and kart racing.
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Golden Tee PGA TOUR 2025 brings seven new courses, returning online competition and fresh game modes to home arcade cabinets and Golden Tee GO.
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New screenshots suggest Godzilla Kaiju Wars VR could receive three promised chapters, potentially debuting at IAAPA 2024 alongside other Raw Thrills titles.
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Bandai Namco’s GoldStorm Pirates returns to US location testing with a redesigned motion cabinet, more playable stages and a possible Q1 2025 release window.
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Big Buck Hunter crowns a new champion, Dutch Pinball unveils Alice, and arcade preservation, rhythm games and Stern Pinball updates lead the latest roundup.
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Wahlap’s 2024 E-Sport Championship brought 5,500 players, six arcade games and ¥500,000 in prizes to a major Guangzhou final.
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Sega Amusements tests seated VR shooter Alpha Ops VR Strike, while Konami revives Contra for a surprising gun-based redemption arcade conversion.
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Stern Pinball’s Metallica Remastered updates the 2013 machine with new artwork, toys, electronics, an LCD display and Insider Connected features.
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UNIS has announced five upcoming arcade games, from motion motorcycle racing and monster karting to prehistoric rafting, VR adventure and carnival shooting.
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LAI Games will present Kaiju Rampage at IAAPA 2024, bringing Wahlap and IGS’s Monster Eye 3 shooter to Western arcades with motion-powered gameplay.
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Pinball Expo 2024 showcased major new machines, collector releases, homebrew designs and electro-mechanical surprises, from X-Men and Avatar to ABBA and Alice in Wonderland.
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October 2024’s arcade roundup covers new retro venues, barcades, family entertainment centres and the Adelaide launch of Paradigm Zone.
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Raw Thrills has released a two-player upright version of Halo: Fireteam Raven, adding a more compact cabinet option for arcades and entertainment venues.
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GoldStorm Pirates reaches Japanese locations as ACOS 2024, Monkey Splash Studios, Sega’s IAAPA plans and major arcade headlines fill the news cycle.
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Jitsu Squad Featuring Samurai Pizza Cats brings enhanced beat ’em up action, a fifth playable character and four-player support to exA-Arcadia.
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Konami is testing two contrasting arcade projects: the four-player ticket game Contra Burst in the US and Gitadora’s ambitious Arena cabinet in Japan.
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DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda: The Warrior’s Gauntlet brings short-form VR combat, haptic feedback and an 80-inch spectator screen to arcades.
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Sega’s Alpha Ops VR Strike combines a military-vehicle cabinet, motion seating, hybrid VR controller and Unreal Engine 5 combat for IAAPA 2024.
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Sydney studio MonkeySplash Studios has unveiled Chef It Up, a four-player cooking arcade game combining physical stations, high scores and ticket redemption.
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Adrenaline Amusements’ Duck Derby: Pump N’ Race swaps traditional controls for water pumps, rubber ducks and linked multiplayer competition.
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Japan Amusement Expo 2024 showcased new arcade games, rhythm hardware, prize machines and location-based attractions from Japan’s leading manufacturers.
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Raw Thrills has confirmed the Halo: Fireteam Raven two-player cabinet and detailed its wider IAAPA Expo 2024 line-up, including new updates and releases.
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Bandai Namco’s GoldStorm Pirates combines two-player shooting, motion seating, treasure hunting and pirate battles in a large-format arcade cabinet.
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exA-Arcadia has revealed new shooters, fighters, multiplayer games and trackball titles ahead of Japan Amusement Expo and IAAPA Expo 2024.
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Japan Amusement Expo 2024 brings new arcade games, rhythm cabinets, VR attractions, racing events and location-based entertainment to Japan’s amusement industry.
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DOF Robotics is bringing Angry Birds: Fury Road to IAAPA 2024, combining kart racing, a three-degree-of-freedom platform and linked multiplayer cabinets.
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IAAPA 2024 previews the arcade, redemption, pinball, VR and simulator products expected to shape amusement venues in 2025, from Orlando’s vast trade show floor.
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