I’ve long loved video games and have been running my own arcade, The Game Grid Arcade in West Valley City, Utah, since 2008. ExA’s latest album is one of the most whimsical, which you can tell just from the title: Nippon Marathon Turbo Hyper = Running. If you want to read more details from the creators themselves, I recommend this great interview our friend Dustin Wilcox did with Onion Soup Interactive in 2019. February was a pretty quiet month, but between this game and another new one I’m working on, it could be a big one. Anyway, with today’s news, this system now has 15 games that can be installed in the ExA coin-operated game locker. It’s worth noting that two console modes, L. O. B. S. T. E. R. and Go-Go Trolley, have been removed from this release because they don’t meet the needs of the arcade. If you have an exA system and want it, the game is on sale on the exA website for $1284 USD plus shipping and handling. Arcades are a great place to get together and have fun playing this type of game, but of course it depends on how certain areas are doing right now with the pandemic. Creator Andy Madin’s quote sums it up, “This is a Nippon caffeine marathon. It’s also the second 4-game exA game, after Knights of Lightning last year. We’ve discussed the exA Arcadia system at length many times here on the blog, so I won’t repeat it; you can click here if it seems new to you. What do you think of this system? I’m very curious to see how it works “in the wild” in a full 4-player setup, because we haven’t seen anything like it in years.