Following a successful showing at IAAPA 2024 that saw it awarded a coveted Brass Ring Award, Utah based Alan-1 has begun shipping both the Pro and Deluxe models of their Asteroids Recharged arcade game that first debuted at Amusement Expo 2024 earlier this year. The units actually began shipping right before the show, but we [...]
Following our report on their teaser video, Pedretti Pinball today released details of the first title in their planned series of Williams/Bally remakes, Funhouse Remake. The game will be available in two versions, Classic Edition and Midnight Limited Edition, with the Midnight Limited Edition restricted to a run of 750 units. The two editions of [...]
Pedretti Pinball today confirmed what had been previously discussed in several recent Pinball Industry News PINcast episodes – that their first full remake title will be of William’s Funhouse. In a teaser video released today they showed a glimpse of their first full pinball machine. Pedretti Pinball’s upcoming Funhouse Remake There are no details of [...]
Pedretti Gaming have extended the scope of their agreement with Planetary Pinball Supply from making ‘2.0’ upgrade kits for Bally and Williams titles to remaking entire games. Until now, Planetary Pinball had only licensed Chicago Gaming and Haggis Pinball to remake complete Williams and Bally pinballs. Under those agreements Medieval Madness, Attack From Mars, Monster [...]
Today is the 39th anniversary to another 80s film that had a little involvement with arcades: The Last Starfighter by Lorimar and Universal. If you’ve never seen this one, it’s a tale about one down-on-his-luck Alex Rogan who kills time on a “Starfighter” arcade machine that got placed into his rural trailer park – but [...]
They say that February is a month for lovers and when it comes to arcade releases, this particular February has been great for lovers of arcade games. As you could already tell from the headline, we have a couple of highly anticipated games which have begun to ship but in case you missed it, this [...]
We’ve got two items for you on pinball today, one of which is a nice surprise. Let’s start with that one. Weird Al’s Museum of Natural Hilarity Coming Soon While I have covered the P3 Multimorphic Pinball platform before, I honestly have not kept up on it like I probably should. It’s a hybrid of [...]
I’m not sure about doing a Newsbytes post today, but there are two big stories from pinball-land, so we’ll tackle those for now and see if there are some other things to cover later.
This past Halloween on a Newsbytes post, I brought up a newcomer to the pinball scene by the name of Haggis Pinball. The first game for this Australian company was an original work called Celts, and now they are already working hard on their 2nd release, which will be a remake of a Bally classic [...]
[Updates] Note that a few updates have come along since I first posted this story; Scroll down for more. Yesterday and today have been great for fans of the shoot ’em up genre, thanks to the ShooterFes 2021 event that was held by Mikado Arcade in Tokyo. As previously mentioned on the blog, exA-Arcadia was [...]