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Welcome to the annual Arcade Heroes Year-in-Review, where I take us back down the memory lane of the past 12 months, and review how things have gone in the industry, at least from [...]

H/T to Joe at Indie Arcade Wave for this news. One issue with IAAPA is that there is so much going on that one can easily miss something as important as a new arcade game launch. T [...]

Each year marks some kind of anniversary, although we tend to only pay attention to those ending in a 0 or a 5. This year saw Atari celebrating 50 years, and where I got the Atari [...]

Back in my day, when all phones were connected to a wall and the only way to skip commercials was record an over-the-air broadcast, then fast forward through them all, our game sys [...]

Welcome to Location Watch, a curated look at brand new arcade locations that have recently opened their doors, all over the world. I’m a little bit behind on this news thanks to IA [...]

Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated collection of news from around the world of arcade & pinball. This post has been on the backburner since the weekend before IAAPA started but th [...]

“Boo-tique” pinball makers Spooky Pinball are at it again and this time they’ve taken on a beloved classic cartoon that generally had a spooky theme to it, Scooby-Doo!. This is not [...]

Welcome to Part #2 of my IAAPA 2022 review; If you missed it, here’s Part #1. This post will repeat much of the first part for the games lists; Then I’ll continue thoughts on games [...]

If you’re a seasoned fan of arcade games, particularly of the shoot ’em up (“shmup”) genre, then the name Toaplan likely conjures up some warm gaming memories. The company was a tr [...]

It’s time to do something unusual for the site here – give away a prize! Thanks to Eugene Jarvis and Raw Thrills, I’ve been hooked up with two physical copies of Cruis’n Blast on N [...]