Happy National Arcade Day!
Today, April 8th, has been declared to be National Arcade Day. According to this page, »
Stranger Things Arcade Is Coming Soon Via Raw Thrills
We’re past April Fools Day now (where this year we had a fuzzy bobcat-inspired joke »
Bubsy Paws Into Pinball (Updated!)
Atari has been on a retro kick lately, grabbing the rights to all sorts of »
Location Watch March 2026: The Latest Arcade Openings Across The World
Welcome to Location Watch, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that compiles the most »
Amusement Expo 2026: The Full Rundown
Welcome to Arcade Heroes’ full rundown of Amusement Expo 2026. This was the most recent »
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Happy National Arcade Day!
Today, April 8th, has been declared to be National Arcade Day. According to this page, it was set by LAI Games, although I’m not sure why today was picked as that day, as there
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Stranger Things Arcade Is Coming Soon Via Raw Thrills
We’re past April Fools Day now (where this year we had a fuzzy bobcat-inspired joke to play with pinball), and thus we come back to real news. Perhaps this one normally would have come
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Bubsy Paws Into Pinball (Updated!)
Atari has been on a retro kick lately, grabbing the rights to all sorts of forgotten classic IP, including the failed 1990s gaming mascot Bubsy. Working to rehabilitate his image is no easy task,
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Location Watch March 2026: The Latest Arcade Openings Across The World
Welcome to Location Watch, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that compiles the most recent openings of new arcades all around the world. It’s been a couple months since the last one now,
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Amusement Expo 2026: The Full Rundown
Welcome to Arcade Heroes’ full rundown of Amusement Expo 2026. This was the most recent major trade show for amusements and arcades, held as always out in Las Vegas; ideally our complete coverage would’ve
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Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune Ignition Detailed
It has been a long wait for Maximum Tune fans to see the next iteration of their favorite racing game hit the scene, but we’re in the home stretch as Bandai Namco has released
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Newsbytes: Resident Evil 2: Arcade On Test In Japan; Texas Pinball Festival; Konami Rhythm Games Come To America; More
Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that runs down “byte-sized” pieces of news from around the world of arcades and pinball. There’s still a lot to get through with
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Adrenaline Amusements Brings Gameloft’s Disney Speedstorm Into Arcades
Going into Amusement Expo 2026, we had a good idea of what most companies were bringing arcade-wise, but one that held their cards close to their chests like usual was Adrenaline Amusements. They have
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Alan-1 Introduces New “MirrorFX” Cabinets With Latest Atari Recharged Titles
Amusement Expo 2026 has now wrapped up and with it, I’m back home and able to start distilling the news. We already covered a few new announcements and now we take a look at
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exA-Arcadia Announces G.I. Joe: The Wrath of Cobra
It’s time for our third and final new game reveal straight from day one of Amusement Expo 2026; in addition to AVATAR Legends, exA-Arcadia have also unveiled G.I. Joe: The Wrath of Cobra, our
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