Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news stories from around the world of arcades and pinball that I semi-regularly post here to Arcade Heroes. It had been a while since the last one, in part due to some life troubles going on for me lately (one of several being the SSD on my main PC [...]
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TWIP creator, Jeff Patterson, shares his thoughts on what could be included in a Harry Potter pinball machine now that the dream license might actually be made. The post Harry Potter and the Pinball Dreams appeared first on This Week in Pinball.
Music store and record label, Jackpot Records, has released a new limited-edition two-album set of music taken from classic Williams/Bally pinball machines, called Jackpot Plays Pinball. The two volumes of Jackpot Plays Pinball Based in Portland, Oregon, USA, and run by Isaac Slusarenko, Jackpot Records is a popular music store selling multiple formats but specialising [...]
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams (KWP), takes a look at the history of the “Deluxe” and “Super Deluxe” categories of arcade cabinet hardware. These now dominate the arcade landscape, so I felt it fitting to see how we got here. Original text is from Mr. [...]
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(Thanks to Ted for sharing many links to help fill this story out) The latest Asia Amusements & Attractions Expo has come and went, so here’s a quick review of what was there. This expo is mainly focused on the Chinese amusement market so what we can expect to see come to the West may [...]
Things are picking up in the arcade news space as we had news about the latest PIU arcade game and now we have a couple of other titles to discuss with Axel City 2 and Donut Dodo Do!, both launching soon on exA-Arcadia coin-operated platforms. Axel City 2 Location Test This long anticipated fighter has [...]
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