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Welcome to the third part of our coverage of our IAAPA 2025 wrap-up, the series of posts that comb through the arcade games and companies that appeared at the expo. Today we are taking a look at the main exhibitors who had a bend towards video games (with one exception): exA-Arcadia; a variety from the AVS Companies booth (Incredible Technologies, DSM Arcade, and Dark Escape Games); and JET Games.<\/p>\n
As many of you may know by now, exA have a 100% focus on video games, while AVS is a distributor representing several brands (including Alan-1, DSM Arcade, and Dark Escape Games), then JET has a mix of video games, videmption, redemption, and kiddie rides from various sources.<\/p>\n
For previous coverage in case you missed it:<\/p>\n
Reminder that games listed below in bold<\/strong> mark the first time we\u2019ve seen them at a North American show.<\/p>\n We dedicate this post to former Arcade Heroes writer Nick Thorpe, who sadly passed yesterday.<\/a><\/em>\u00a0RIP.<\/em><\/p>\n If you are ever at an arcade show and you\u2019re interested in pure, non-redemption video games, then exA-Arcadia is your go-to, assuming that they are there. Their presence at IAAPA this year was in a different spot than previous years, with them being found in the Southwest corner of the convention center floor.<\/p>\n This time, they also focused entirely on their ARC-32 Japanese cabinet design, with five of these lined up to play (last year<\/a> they only had two of these, then four of the big red ARC-1 cabs alongside them). As you can see in the video here, they debuted both the four player control panel and the trackball panel for us to see, although the trackball panel had been seen in Japan a year previously. All of the ARC-32s were installed on the optional risers, putting them at a height that most American arcades prefer:<\/p>\nexA-Arcadia<\/h2>\n