![]() It came to my attention via Replay highlighting the Nashville location, which recently added a “Beetlejuice-themed interactive speakeasy” to the venue. This one opened up a while back, but somehow I missed it, and the other KFS openings in my Location Watch posts (I try, so we’ll file this under “Better late than never”). They are an arcade/bar and focus on older games, although I can’t find a list and the one photo of a few games is at such an angle that I can only ID 4 of them(Gauntlet Legends, Ms. Such is the case with this new venue that is named after the infamous item in Mario Kart that everyone love/hates. We don’t hear about Idaho very often on here, but they can bust out the new locations once in a while. For some of the pins, they’ve got Deadpool, Evel Knievel, F-14 Tomcat, Jurassic Park (Data East), Last Action Hero, Monopoly, Revenge From Mars, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Beatles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and plenty more. Their primary focus is pinball, starting with 42 machines and a few video pieces. High Score Pinball Arcade (Bay Shore, NY)īringing some more pinball action to New York state is this location that opened a couple of weeks ago. Not all of that is dedicated to arcade games of course, with other attractions like “the world’s largest crane game” helping take up space, but they do have a wide variety of games available, from classics like A.P.B., BattleZone, Centipede, Joust, Mario Bros., Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, and Atari’s Star Wars, to plenty of modern pieces including Dead Heat, Halo: Fireteam Raven SDX, House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn, Initial D3, Luigi’s Mansion Arcade, Nerf Arcade, Space Invaders Frenzy, Super Bikes 2, World’s Largest Pac-man and much more totaling “hundreds of other games.” Find their official website here. Lucky Snake Arcade, which is a part of the Showboat Hotel, just opened with 100k sq. It seems building giant facilities is the name of the game as we also see with this new arcade on the other side of the country. I dunno, maybe it needs to be bigger… Lucky Snake Arcade & Sports Bar (Atlantic City, NJ) I hope to find enough time to drop by and visit them when I am at Amusement Expo, but that will depend on how things go. in size, allowing them to expand how much pinball is available, way up from the already impressive collection they had at the previous locale. While this isn’t a brand new business, the world-famous Pinball Hall of Fame has finally moved their operations to a big new facility near the McCarran International airport, and they made sure to find a way so that everyone arriving in Vegas knows what they are. Site reader and contributor Toby Nakhorn will also be holding some tournaments there on Initial D at some point – I also imagine there will be plenty of official tournaments held on the other games too. 2, a recent Taiko No Tatsujin, Scotto and Synchronica. Focused solely on Japanese arcade games (a separate room has a pinball lounge), this room will feature one of the recent Bishi Bashi games, Groove Coaster Arcade, Initial D Zero, MaiMai Finale, Nostalgia Op. The UK Re-Opening also includes a grand opening of a Japanese arcade that is found at the existing Chief Coffee in Chiswick. We’ll see what happens, but until then, let’s take a look at the many new businesses opening their doors, or who have opened recently: Chief Coffee (Chiswick, London, UK) Looking at the headlines around the web, it looks like most of Europe is set to re-open in the coming weeks, although in some places like Italy, it isn’t good news. ![]() I’m not sure who is left after all this, but hopefully, they’ll be able to thrive after the initial bump happens (with every stir crazy, it should be extremely busy for a lot of places at first, then it will taper off – at least from what I’ve seen in my region). ![]() The UK Re-OpensĪfter months of lockdowns, the UK has lifted enough restrictions to allow businesses such as arcades to re-open their doors. ![]() These have been rather infrequent since the pandemic hit, taking out many arcades and other small businesses with it, but it’s a resilient industry and it’s important to keep highlighting these efforts.Īs it is, this is one of the largest Location Watch posts I’ve ever done, so apologies that I couldn’t fit everyone’s name in the headline. Welcome to Location Watch, a series of posts that tracks the opening of new arcade businesses across the planet.
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