Events

Upcoming Events

Game Tournaments | All-Ages

CTGamerCon 2023

March 18-19, 2023 | Mohegan Sun / Uncasville, CT US

Connecticut’s Terrific Gamer Convention (CTGamerCon) – The area’s #1 eSports, TableTop Gaming and Cosplay Event! Join us for competitive video gaming (esports) for cool prizes, free play of your favorites! Retro-Gaming, Arcade classics and VR Gaming – its all here! System Arcadia is happy to return to this convention in 2023 and we hope to keep coming back for years to come. This year we are bringing DDR Extreme Pro, PIU Infinity, Pop’n Music 26 Kaimei Riddles, Jubeat festo, Wacca Reverse, and Tetris: The Grandmaster!

Anime Convention| All-Ages

Anime Boston 2023

April 7-9, 2023 | Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA US

Anime Boston is a three-day convention held annually in Boston, Massachusetts, USA under the supervision of the New England Anime Society. Their focus is to celebrate and promote Japanese animation, comics, and pop-culture. We are happy to return to Anime Boston for not only next year but for the following two years after as we have signed a multi-year agreement with the convention along with Freeplay Bar & Arcade to run the arcade room through 2025. This time we’ll bringing even more cabinets than last time, approximately 40 cabinets! Come see us at room 311 at the convention and say hello!

Anime Convention | All-Ages

Popcult Anime Con 2023

August 26-27, 2023 | Westin Waltham Boston, Waltham, MA US

PopCult Anime Con is a two-day multi-genre pop-culture and cosplay convention in the Bay State of Massachusetts. The first PCAC was held in August of 2016 at the Sheraton Framingham castle hotel. System Arcadia is happy to return to this incredible local event. Machine list and other details to be announced soon.

Past Events

Virtual Concert / Live Stream | All-Ages

Reverse Reverb

Saturday, December 3, 2022 | 19:00–03:00 ET | System Arcadia on Twitch

Hello there again everyone! We are happy to announce our 2nd webshow for the years of 2022. This time we’re trying a out a brand-new look! The reason for this is because we are doing another collaboration for our Twitch show series. This time it’s with Boston Blue Beat! BBB is a sister company of ours in a sense as one of our board members, Spencer, also helps run that company. BBB runs a monthly Fighting game tournament out of Balance Patch in Boston as well as a number of online events including a monthly Guilty Gear Accent Core +R tournament and a weekly BlazBlue Central Fiction tournament!

Anime Convention | All-Ages

Popcult Anime Con 2022

August 27-28, 2022 | Westin Waltham Boston, Waltham, MA US

PopCult Anime Con is a two-day multi-genre pop-culture and cosplay convention in the Bay State of Massachusetts. The first PCAC was held in August of 2016 at the Sheraton Framingham castle hotel. System Arcadia considers the leadership behind this event a close ally in the local convention scene, and we’re so happy to finally be a part of this event. We were originally going to appear in 2020, but had to cancel over the COVID-19 pandemic. We are bringing DDR Extreme Pro, PIU Prime 2, Pop’n Music 26 Kaimei Riddles, Jubeat festo, and Tetris: The Grandmaster!

Anime Convention| All-Ages

Anime Boston 2022

May 27-29, 2022 | Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA US

Anime Boston is a three-day convention held annually in Boston, Massachusetts, USA under the supervision of the New England Anime Society. Their focus is to celebrate and promote Japanese animation, comics, and pop-culture. This is by far System Arcadia’s largest vending event and our first event in partnership with Freeplay Bar & Arcade! We are bringing over 25 cabinets ranging from rhythm games to retro and racing games as well!

Game Tournaments | All-Ages

CTGamerCon 2022

March 19-20, 2022 | Mohegan Sun / Uncasville, CT US

Connecticut’s Terrific Gamer Convention (CTGamerCon) – The area’s #1 eSports, TableTop Gaming and Cosplay Event! Join us for competitive video gaming (esports) for cool prizes, free play of your favorites! Retro-Gaming, Arcade classics and VR Gaming – its all here! System Arcadia’s first convention in Connecticut and first convention since the pandemic is going to be an incredible experience. We are bringing DDR A20, PIU Prime 2, Pop’n Music 26 Kaimei Riddles, Jubeat festo, and Tetris: The Grandmaster!

Virtual Concert / Live Stream | All-Ages

Shakunetsu Overdrive

Saturday, April 9, 2022 | 20:00–03:00 ET | System Arcadia on Twitch

Hello everyone! I hope everyone has been doing well during the Winter months, but with Winter coming to a close in just a few weeks, it’s time for us to begin announcing our events for the year, and what better way to begin than announcing a new webshow on Twitch!!! Our continuing web series that began during 2020 when the pandemic began is happening for the 5th time, and we have a lot of returning performers from previous webshows and a previous headliner from 灼熱Summer Night 4/For UltraGamers! Yes, we are happy to announce that since her last performance at the 灼熱Summer Night 5 VIP show, AkiraComplex is back after a long hiatus and will be headlining Shakunetsu Overdrive!!! We gravely miss her and are glad to see she is able to work with us again. You can expect to see more announcements with us working with her in the coming months and years as well.

Virtual Concert / Live Stream | All-Ages

System Arcadia vs. RaveStation Collaboration Show

Night One | Friday, September 24, 2021 | 19:30–02:00 ET | System Arcadia on Twitch
Night Two | Saturday, September 25, 2021 | 19:30–02:00 ET | Ravestation Records on Twitch

Hello everyone! Or, as our partners at RaveStation Records would say: Hello gamers! We are excited to formally announce our first ever collaboration event with another label. Coming from Detroit, MI, Ravestation Records is a fast-growing company busy with their own web events and album releases on Bandcamp. We had the honor of working with them before; their leaders, tweak and DJ School Pizza collaborated on a set for Shakunetsu Underground last October. These guys are not only great performers and promoters, but they are long-time friends of ours in the Bemani scene. They share our same passion for the JCore and netlabel scenes; it was only a matter of time before we would celebrate the genres together.

Virtual Concert / Live Stream | All-Ages

Shakunetsu Horizon

Saturday, June 26, 2021 | 20:00–02:00 ET | System Arcadia on Twitch

Hello everyone. I am so glad to be in a Shakunetsu week once again. A week of final preparations and promotion before the big show! Earlier we announced that Shakunetsu (灼熱) Horizon will be headlined by both nora2r and T2Kazuya! We hope you are excited for our first webshow of the year, and we hope you look forward to our special announcement at the end of the broadcast in regards to a future web event later this year!

Virtual Concert / Live Stream | All-Ages

Shakunetsu Underground

Saturday, October 17, 2020 | 20:00–03:00 ET | System Arcadia on Twitch

Hello everyone! Once again we are deciding to throw together a webshow for one night this month as a means to bring our fans together once again in uncertain times. We were optimistic that by now we would at least have an idea of when we could return to a physical venue, so until that day finally comes, we will continue to put on great shows online for you featuring amazing musical talent both domestically and abroad. On the night of October 17th, with a start time of 8 P.M. and going late into October 18 until 3 A.M. (EST), System Arcadia is happy to announce Shakunetsu (灼熱) Underground. This is the 2nd installment in our on-going web series which features music from the JCore and net-label world.

Virtual Concert / Live Stream | All-Ages

Shakunetsu Append

Night One | Friday, June 26, 2020 | 19:30–02:00 ET | System Arcadia on Twitch
Night Two | Saturday, June 27, 2020 | 19:30–02:00 ET | System Arcadia on Twitch

If you thought a pandemic closing down clubs across the United States was going to stop us from running a show this year, you are all sorely mistaken. For the first time ever, System Arcadia will be running a web-show to entertain you online instead of the club during these uncertain times.
System Arcadia presents Shakunetsu Append, our company’s first web-show live exclusively on Twitch via twitch.tv/systemarcadia. This is going to be a two-night event featuring a whopping 16 acts total from 3 different countries: United States, United Kingdom, and Japan.

Game Tournaments | All-Ages

Feel The Beat Rhythm Game Tournament

Qualifiers: Friday, October 25, 2019 from 18:30–00:00 + Saturday, October 26 from 10:00–12:30
Tournament: Saturday, October 26, 2019 | 13:00–23:00 | Round 1 / Silver City Galleria / Taunton, MA

After a very successful trial event with Silver City Summit last February, we’re coming back to Round 1 at the Silver City Galleria in Taunton, MA this October. Join us for Feel The Beat, our flagship tournament series. Tournaments include: Dance Dance Revolution A, Pump It Up XX, DanceRush Stardom, beatmaniaIIDX Rootage, and Sound Voltex Vividwave.

Concerts | All-ages

灼熱Summer Night 5 Concert

Saturday, August 31, 2019 | 18:30 VIP / 20:30 GA | Sonia / Cambridge, MA US

Celebrate 5 amazing years of 灼熱Summer Night at our new location, Sonia in Cambridge, MA. Since 2015, we’ve put on a show every summer to celebrate our love for JCore. This year’s show features the legendary Scott Brown of Evolution Records, JAKAZiD, TANUKI, Snack Attack, and Joey Electric. Unlike our previous three 灼熱Summer Night shows, this will be an all-ages show. Join us and GO BERSERK!

Game Tournaments | All-Ages

Shine 2019

August 23–25, 2019 | DCU Center / Worcester, MA US

Shine is Boston’s biggest Super Smash Bros. tournament. Featured games include 64, Melee, Smash 4, Rivals of Aether, Street Fighter V, and Dragon Ball FighterZ. In addition to the tournaments, there will be merch booths, an artist alley, and live commentary. This year we’re bringing DDR X3, PIU Prime 2, Pop’n Music 25, Jubeat CLan, and Tetris: The Grandmaster. For those interested in the DDR tournament, purchasing a “non-competitor” pass will grant you entry into the venue and allow you to enter the DDR tournament.

Concerts | 21+

For UltraGamers 2019

Saturday, March 30, 2018 | 20:00–02:00 | Machine / Boston, MA US

Join us for our first-ever event during PAX East weekend in Boston. This is a new show idea we’ve come up with for one purpose: create a show that highlights the best in United States born talent that have appeared on Asian rhythm games and throw them into a club environment for an absolutely bumping show. This show features AkiraComplex, DMAshura, Speedycake, and IDPH with support from DJ Bad Axe and Sawtooth. For UItraGamers is a hardcore music night that you won’t want to miss!

Game Tournaments | All-Ages

Silver City Summit Rhythm Game Tournament

Qualifiers: Friday, February 22nd, 2019 from 18:30–00:00 + Saturday, February 23rd from 10:00–12:30
Tournament: Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 | 13:00–23:00 | Round 1 / Silver City Galleria / Taunton, MA

Welcome to the first ever arcade tournament at Round 1 SCG, Silver City Summit, hosted by System Arcadia. System Arcadia is an event promotion company in the Northeast that has been running events in Massachusetts since 2015. Before System Arcadia however, its employees have been involved in many of the major rhythm game tournaments and have deep community involvement. In the past, our crew has worked on the MMG series, the GUAC and CotC multi-game series, and many of the rhythm game tournaments that have occurred at anime conventions in the region such as Anime Boston and ConnectiCon over the last several years.

Game Tournaments | All-Ages

Shine 2018

August 24–26, 2018 | Seaport World Trade Center / Boston, MA US

Shine is Boston’s biggest Super Smash Bros. tournament. Featured games include 64, Melee, Smash 4, Rivals of Aether, Street Fighter V, and Dragon Ball FighterZ. In addition to the tournaments, there will be merch booths, an artist alley, and live commentary. We’re supplying DDR and ITG on freeplay and partnering with New England Rhythm Games to host a DDR tournament on the newly-released DDR Extreme Pro upgrade! This upgrade allows for “Marvelous” timing during gameplay. For those interested in the DDR tournament, purchasing a “non-competitor” pass will grant you entry into the venue and allow you to enter the DDR tournament.

Concerts | 21+

灼熱Summer Night 4 Concert

Saturday, June 30, 2018 | 19:00–01:00 | Machine / Boston, MA US

The best was yet to come as we worked hard to put on a better show each year. Last year, we showcased another legend straight from Japan. J-Core DJ, REMO-CON, has been slaying since 2001. You may recognize REMO-CON’s productions in a variety of BEMANI games, such as beatmania IIDX, Dance Dance Revolution, and jubeat. REMO-CON was joined by ni-21, Flapjack, Akira Complex, DJ Dice, DJ Bad Axe, Sawtooth, and Smakker.

Autograph Signing | All-Ages

灼熱Summer Night 4 Autograph Signing

Saturday, June 30, 2018 | 12:00–14:00 | Game Underground / Waltham, MA US

This all-ages event was the official autograph signing for 灼熱Summer Night, designed to accommodate fans and those that couldn’t attend the concert at Machine. Last year, we were proud to announce that REMO-CON, ni-21 and Akira Complex made their first trip to Boston, MA for this historic event. Fans and friends alike stopped by to meet amazing producers, knowing that it was likely that they won’t be state-side again for many years.

Game Tournaments | All-ages

Game Underground Arcade Championship 02

November 10–12, 2017 | Game Underground / Natick, MA (former location)

Game Underground & System Arcadia returned with the second iteration of Game Underground Arcade Championship. This all-ages event featured a variety of rhythm game and classic game tournaments.

Concerts | 21+

灼熱Summer Night 3 feat. kors k

Saturday, June 17, 2017 | 19:00–02:00 | Boston, MA US

This show was like a family reunion, one that brought a music and game community together again. SSN3 featured Kors K, in their first performance in New England since the hallowed Tokyo Game Action era. Kors K’s performance was supported by DJ Venom, Mitomoro, mark5, and Chaos D.

Game Tournaments | All-Ages

Game Underground Arcade Championship 01

November 4–6, 2016 | Game Underground / Natick, MA (former location)

This was Game Underground’s first annual tournament series with the goal of bringing multiple gaming communities together for a weekend of awesome tournaments. The event featured DDR, Jubeat, Pump It Up, IIDX, Pop’n Music, Reflec Beat, air hockey, skeeball, and pinball tournaments.

Concerts | 21+

灼熱Summer Night 2

Friday, August 19, 2016 | 18:00–02:00 | Tyngsboro, MA US

The next year, we set our eyes on a rising star in the Japanese underground scene—someone who dedicates every day to the grind making music. We’re talking about our headliner, Mitomoro. Mitomoro played alongside MaidenV, DJ Bad Axe, Sawtooth, Glenntai, and Smakker.

Concerts | 21+

灼熱Summer Night

Saturday, August 8, 2015 | 19:00–01:00 | Framingham, MA US

Our first event ever started off with a bang, bringing the godfather of J-Core Technorch to their first show stateside. The show blasted all night along with Smakker, DJ Bad Axe, Sawtooth, MaidenV.