Amusement Expo 2024: Booth Tours #1 [Team Play, Raw Thrills, Bandai Namco, Sega, Pinball]
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by arcadehero
4d ago
With Amusement Expo 2024 now well in our rear view mirror, it’s time to talk a little more about what was there. I’ve been busy editing and uploading videos to YouTube, so subscribe there if you want to see this stuff before I get around to a post. Still, it’s important to keep things going on the blog here, so let’s jump to it with some booth tours. Note that these are not all of the booths that I filmed. I’ll follow-up with a second booth post once the rest are complete. If you are just here for pinball, jump to the bottom of the post. Team Play Inc. I’m going to start with this one, which m ..read more
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Marvel: Contest of Champions Arcade Is No Longer A D&B Exclusive
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by arcadehero
4d ago
Getting to some more news out of Amusement Expo 2024, Raw Thrills debuted the 2019 Dave & Busters Exclusive release of Marvel: Contest of Champions, offering it as an industry wide release. Read on for details. Marvel: Contest of Champions (The Backstory) If you’ve visited a Dave & Busters anywhere across the fruited plains over the past five years, then chances are you noticed – or played – this Marvel fighting game. Based upon a 2014 mobile game, this added elements of physical controls and collectible cards. In that sense, it was exactly like Raw Thrills’ popular Injustice Arcade, i ..read more
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Atari’s Asteroids Recharged Is Coming To Amusement Expo 2024
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1w ago
Last week, the news dropped that newcomer Alan-1 had signed a partnership deal with Atari to bring ten of their “Recharged” games to the coin-op arcade market. With the Amusement Expo 2024 trade show opening on Wednesday, the first of those titles has been revealed: Asteroids Recharged. Wondering what Amusement Expo is? Check out this link. Asteroids Is Making A Comeback If you’ve been around for a while, then you know what Asteroids is, but if you’re a young’un, it might have missed your radar. The original was released by Atari to arcades back in November 1979 and it not only became one of t ..read more
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Newsbytes Spring Show Edition – Getting Hype For Amusement Expo
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by arcadehero
1w ago
Welcome to a special end of Winter edition of Newsbytes, a post where we curate news from around the world of arcades and pinball. Amusement Expo 2024 starts this week and thus is a strong focus for most news that we cover here; but we’ll see if there’s something else out there worth a mention. Note that on Tuesday I will publish an Amusement Expo preview, detailing everything I know that will be there. I will also do a livestream on YouTube about it on Tuesday morning, close to noon my time. Until then… Godzilla Gets A Silent Trailer I imagine it will get a reupload here soon, but the first o ..read more
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TouchMagix To Unveil Pudgy Penguins Polar Challenge At Amusement Expo 2024
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by arcadehero
1w ago
Back in September of last year, news broke that TouchMagix would design an arcade game based upon the Pudgy Penguins licence and characters. Today, we finally have a look at what that game will be, so let’s check it out. Pudgy Penguins Polar Challenge At the moment, there is little info that was provided in regards to the game, aside from this shot of the cabinet that I was able to extract from the new ad banner at the top of the site. Aside from the variety of LEDs, you can see a pair of button controls for two players (two left/right arrows, then a large one that says ‘JUMP’). It also appear ..read more
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ExA-Arcadia Set To Unveil New Games At EVO Japan 2024
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by arcadehero
2w ago
While a lot of focus on the blog will surround Amusement Expo 2024 over the course of the next couple of weeks, another event is approaching fast that will also contain some arcade goodness – EVO Japan 2024. exA Is Headed To EVO Japan While this year’s US EVO event doesn’t take place until July, the Japanese EVO side is happening next month at the end of April. exA-Arcadia first mentioned this in a tweet, then followed up with this exALive stream. If you missed the deal with these, here’s our post on the first of them from last month. Again it’s all in Japanese since that’s the target audience ..read more
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Raw Thrills Gets A New Website; Godzilla VR Update
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by arcadehero
2w ago
We’re a week out from Amusement Expo 2024, and while some news that should pop up over that time involves games, there can be other things to discuss – such as Raw Thrills’ new website. Raw Thrills Modernizes Their Site Back January 6th, 2002(assuming that archive.org is correct), Raw Thrills launched a placeholder website. It would remain dormant until May 2004, where it received a small update(mentioning a couple of casino games they did – I hadn’t known about those), then a more significant revamp a year later, and another revamp the year after that. I won’t go through all of them, but suff ..read more
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Atari Is Returning To Arcades With New Alan-1 Partnership
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by arcadehero
2w ago
The arcade business has been around for a while but the video side of the business really got started when Atari released PONG in 1972. Atari left the coin-op business when Midway bought Atari Games, changed their name to Midway Games West, then left the arcade business themselves. Since then, a few Atari licensed arcade games have popped up here and there, but otherwise the company has remained as a home content publisher – until now. Atari & Alan-1 Announce Partnership You’ll find the press release at the bottom but let me summarize it first and ad some background so it’s more than just ..read more
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American Pinball Serves Up Barry O’s Barbeque Challenge
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by arcadehero
2w ago
What’s more American than pinball and barbeque? How about both in the same package. That is what American Pinball is serving up for their next game, officially titled: Barry O’s Barbeque Challenge Hot Sauce and Hot Rods. The last design by the late pinball legend Barry Oursler, this will serve as a tribute to a wonderful life of pinball work. Barry O’s Barbeque Challenge Cabinet This marks the sixth pinball release by American Pinball, who most recently produced Galactic Tank Force. As far as I am aware, this is the first time that a pinball machine has been based upon BBQ/grilling…although pe ..read more
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Bike Dash Delivery Arrives For Testing In The US
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by arcadehero
2w ago
Arcade fans who have a soft spot for everything Bandai Namco will be interested to hear that Bike Dash Delivery has arrived in the US for testing. Read on for the few details. Note that the following shows a game on test. This game could change significantly from what you see here to final production or, it may not be released at all. Thanks to Ryte for sharing this news on our Discord server. What Is Bike Dash Delivery? As a quick refresher, Bike Dash Delivery is a game that is still in the development phase. After its first location tests in Japan spotted by Ted, it appeared at last year’s T ..read more
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