Stern Pinball Unveils Star Wars Fall of The Empire
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GTI Asia China Expo 2025 Day 2: More New Arcade Games In China From UNIS & Ace
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The Arcade Heroes "Arcade Game of the Year 2009" poll
It’s that wonderful time of year again where we see what you the readers consider to be the Arcade Game of the Year in 2009. We have had some excellent games come to arcades
Read More »Looking back at General Computer Corp.
When you think of influential companies in the arcade industry from the 80’s, you might not have GCC come to mind right at first, unless you are a classic game buff. But whether you
Read More »Arcade Heroes Podcast #10 – IAAPA!
I’m not sure whether to count this as an “official” podcast or not as it’s technically unfinished but it is what it is and it’s the first time Kevin Williams and I had a
Read More »Konami release Mocap Sports in Japan
(thanks to Aaron Auzins for the tip) Konami’s return to the Mocap arena is finally here, with the release of Mocap Sports in Japan. We’ve discussed this particular game a number of times already
Read More »Classic Cocktail gaming Arcade Tables
As a fan of classic arcade gaming one of those ideas from “back-in-the-day” that I like is the cocktail cabinet. While the idea has not been completely lose for arcades in modern times (as
Read More »STRIDE begins Save The Arcades 2
STRIDE gum is at it again and their Save The Arcades campaign has just entered it’s second phase. This time they are giving players out there a chance to nominate the arcade of their
Read More »Could Ridge Racer see a return to arcades?
Last time I heard anything about Ridge Racer, people were still poking fun at that Sony exec for saying “Ridddggee Raaacccuuurrr” at Sony’s e3 press conference a few years back. I wasn’t terribly interested
Read More »IAAPA Pics by Kevin Williams
Now for our second-to-last post about IAAPA 2009 – the last one will be the attempt at a podcast that we did at the show although we were unable to finish it up for
Read More »Last batch of IAAPA 2009 vids – Panic Museum, Silver Strike Live, Make Your Own Dog Tags, Animatronics
I’ve finally uploaded all of the IAAPA videos that I took and while I probably should have got a few more, I hope that everyone has enjoyed what I did put online. I know
Read More »Konami now testing DDR X2 in Japan, "Jukebeat" in the US
(Thanks to Eddie and Aaron of Bemanistlye for the info!) I’ve been focusing so much on IAAPA news lately that I didn’t have much time to squeeze anything else in but there are some
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