| December 02, 2025 | We have added the ability to upload token photo pairs (front and back) to attach to Arcade Map locations! See our page for the Arcade Map: Petersen Automotive Museum as an example. |
| November 17, 2025 | Throughout the site, we've added the ability to re-edit (crop, rotate, etc.) previously uploaded photos. |
| October 31, 2025 | We've added multi-lingual hints when searching in the eLibrary. Search for names like Sega, Nintendo, Stern, Midway, Cave, or Bally, and the system will automatically include the Japanese versions of these names for expanded search results A single click turns the expanded search off if you just want to search for English words. |
| August 20, 2025 | In the VAPS/Members game section, a member can now add a distance limit on a game want record. For a common game (ie: Pac-Man), maybe you only want to know about local machines for sale, but for a super rare game, maybe you are willing to ship it across an ocean. Then if you look at a want list report: Members/VAPS -> Trading -> Logged In: Your Watchlist Matches, it wlll show you all matching want list records (filtering recorfds that exceed a distance you might have set), with the distance of each item for sale. |
| August 18, 2025 | In the VAPS/Members section, you can now tie (or untie) your photos uploads to specific games in your profile -- time to update your for-sale listings |
| August 15, 2025 | We noticed that a number of VAPS members were not deleting a game entry when they no longer owned it and instead have added comments to the game like 'sold'. We've now added a 'Sold' status option in addition to 'Have' and 'Want' to address this. |
| August 12, 2025 | In the VAPS/Member section, when looking at their game list, a member will now see the general rating they have given each game, and be invited (via a single click) to rate any games they haven't previously. |
| August 08, 2025 | A VAPS/Member game entry field called 'Knowledge level' was deprecated and hidden as it wasn't well explained and membes were using it for different things (technical knowledge, game play knowledge, knowledge of the game their owned, etc.) |
| August 07, 2025 | We made numerous subtle improvements to the Calendar/Events pages -- in particular to the adding and editing of events. |
| August 05, 2025 | We've re-enabled the ability to upload photos to the VAPS/Members section, and added new features like the ability to sort the order of images and to soft delete previously uploaded images. |
| July 31, 2025 | VAPS Member's public profile pages now have a 'Contributions' tab showing their Rated Games & Rated Locations as well as their added entries for : Games, Game Images, Manufacturers, Manufacturer Images, Locations, Events, Manual, and People. |
| July 30, 2025 | VAPS Member's public profile pages now include a 'Visited' tab showing what locations a member has visited, along with their ratings and comments about same. |
| July 25, 2025 | A major reorganization of the VAPS member pages was completed. VAPS no longer has its own (very different menu bar) from the rest of the site, and now simply resides as its own menu tab on the menu bar. |
| July 14, 2025 | Content moderators may now merge duplicate manufacturers together. Previously we added the ability for them to merge game records. |
| July 07, 2025 | The calculations for how popular a game is or how much detail we have on a game has been completed reworked. This impacts the status bars shown when one is looking at a list of games (or search results) in the main encyclopedia |
| June 12, 2025 | Social media quick link buttons have been moved to the bottom of pages instead of at the top. |
| June 11, 2025 | On the Arcade Map, click on the legend icons below the map to turn each category on or off. This filters the results accordingly. |
| June 04, 2025 | On the Arcade Map, a 'My Visits' tab has been added then takes someone to a single report in VAPS showing the locations they have visited and what ratings have been given to them. |
| April 14, 2025 | We now support tying together pinball machines as part of a group. In recent years, a new release of a pinball machine (ie: Mandalorian) often brings with it multiple release versions, such as 'Pro', 'Premium', and 'Limited Edition', each with slightly different playfield features, software, and back glass art. There previously hasn't been any official policy on whether to have 3 different entries for such a new release, or one. We are now standardizing having different versions for each release. And we've added the ability to combine these 3 different entries into a 'group' so that looking at the entry of one will display links to the others, and entries of a group will be identified as such when looking at a list of games or conducting a search. The 'group' feature is currently only supported for Pinball machines. |
| April 07, 2025 | We've added support to be able to move an image from one game entry to another. Also, a few days have been spent addressing a lot of minor UI/UX issues. |
