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Arcade operators entered 2023 amid strong FEC trading, rising costs, new game releases and hard lessons from a failed second location in Utah.
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Stern Pinball’s James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Edition brings every Bond actor to a Keith Elwin-designed playfield limited to 500 machines.
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EAG 2023 brought new racing, redemption, rhythm and immersive arcade attractions to London, including releases from Bandai Namco, Sega, ACE and Raw Thrills.
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EAG 2023 showcased European arcade distributors, redemption equipment, pinball and new video games, offering a remote look at the commercial amusement market.
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Bay Tek’s QB Throwdown appears in location testing, combining two-player football throws, projected graphics and a large ticket-game cabinet.
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Taito’s officially licensed Ice Cold Beer remake is scheduled to ship from February 2023, bringing modern hardware to the classic electromechanical arcade experience.
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Taito’s JAEPO 2023 showcase pairs Music Diver with compact X-Station attractions, including projection-mapped adventures built for modern entertainment venues.
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EAG 2023, JAEPO previews, TRON 3, Space Invaders’ 45th anniversary, pinball updates and rising arcade energy costs headline this industry round-up.
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Sega’s Storm Rider 2 brings motion, touchscreen controls and four-bike multiplayer racing to a new arcade motorcycle simulator from Wahlap and 3MindWave.
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LaserDisc arcade games promised cinematic breakthroughs but exposed the risks of costly hardware, shallow gameplay and unreliable machines during the 1980s crash.
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IGS’s Hyper Cross snowmobile racer is being tested by Sega Amusements at London’s Airport Bowl, but a Western release is not yet confirmed.
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Sega’s Drone Racing Genesis brings aerial competition to arcades with five drones, four courses, vivid visuals and a joystick-based control system.
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Need for Speed Heat Takedown is shipping in its standard arcade cabinet, combining powerful audio and modern visuals while a deluxe motion model remains in testing.
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LaserDisc and CD-ROM promised to reinvent 1990s arcades, powering light-gun games, simulators and giant attractions before reliability and cost ended the experiment.
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UNIS’s Sailor’s Quest VR and Rilix’s SpongeBob VR Bubble Coaster bring motion seating, licensed themes and immersive gameplay to new arcade venues.
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The latest arcade news covers Roger Sharpe’s pinball biopic, Street Fighter VR testing, mysterious cabinets, Super Shot and Pump It Up.
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Two arcade-exclusive releases arrive in February 2023: a faithful Ice Cold Beer remake and Bandai Namco’s eight-level racer Dead Heat Unleashed.
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Bandai Namco’s Taiko No Tatsujin has entered an official USA location test, using an English Nijiro-based build with a limited song list.
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Stern Pinball teases Foo Fighters, with Jack Danger and possibly Zombie Yeti attached and a full reveal expected before Amusement Expo 2023.
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February 2023’s global arcade roundup covers new venues, Japanese imports, free-play formats, pinball museums, family entertainment centres and upcoming openings.
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Stern, Jersey Jack and American Pinball tease new tables, including Foo Fighters and Galactic Tank Force, as the 2023 pinball season gathers pace.
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Stern Pinball’s Foo Fighters brings 15 songs, an alien invasion storyline and three cabinet editions to the company’s latest rock-themed machine.
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March’s arcade news includes IAAPI and GTI Asia China Expo 2023, pinball reveals from Jersey Jack and American Pinball, plus fresh industry headlines.
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Step ManiaX DX is now shipping, bringing a larger screen, stronger audio and expanded LED lighting to the rhythm arcade game’s deluxe cabinet.
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Jersey Jack Pinball’s The Godfather 50th Anniversary arrives in Limited and Collector’s Editions, combining film licence appeal with collector-level pricing.
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Play Mechanix and Chicago Gaming are developing Pulp Fiction Pinball, with Mark Ritchie designing the machine and a fuller reveal still to come.
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Galactic Tank Force, Big Buck World Championship XVI qualifiers, DEAL 2023 and Vader Immortal hardware changes lead this week’s arcade news.
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Play Mechanix’s Pulp Fiction pinball machine channels late-1970s design, with base and LE pricing, trailers, sculpted toys and a simpler playfield layout.
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Jousting Heroes updates classic aerial arcade combat with weapons, egg transformations, wind feedback and multiplayer cabinets for up to eight players.
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Orders are open for Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead, a compact Griffin Aerotech light-gun cabinet with procedural gameplay and customised recoil.
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The latest arcade news covers exA-Arcadia pre-orders, Atari’s Stern catalogue acquisition, NFS Heat Takedown DX, Galactic Tank Force and Taiko testing.
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American Pinball’s Galactic Tank Force combines sci-fi pinball, live-action characters and 1990s FMV-style humour across four editions.
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Zombies Crisis, Nitto Game’s light-gun shooter, is moving toward the US market through Amusement Source International after its EAG’23 appearance.
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A detailed preview of Amusement Expo 2023, covering the arcade, pinball, redemption, VR and mixed-reality products expected in Las Vegas.
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Sega Amusements International celebrates 40 years, tracing its journey from a European coin-op operation to an independent global arcade business.
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A fictional Rocket League arcade cabinet promised steering-wheel controls, collectible cards, rocket effects and eight-player linking in an elaborate April Fools joke.
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Amusement Expo 2023 showcased record attendance, new arcade games, pinball, redemption attractions and VR hardware from leading industry manufacturers.
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The latest arcade and pinball news covers House of the Gundead, documentary projects, Cosmotrons, Amusement Expo videos and major industry headlines.
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From the Bally Astrocade to Windows-based cabinets, trace how consumer computers moved into arcades and eventually became the industry standard.
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Adrenaline Amusements’ NFS Heat Takedown Motion Deluxe adds a 16-degree motion seat, 75-inch 4K display and linked racing support.
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