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Melty Blood Actress & Byon Byon location tests in Japan
Two games that were featured at this year’s AOU show have been seen on location in Japan, one the latest Melty Blood Actress game (a fighter) and the other Konami’s interesting ByonByon. ByonByon uses
Read More »AMOA denounces direct sales
From: http://www.replaymag.com/instant.htm (COMMENT FROM WEB PAGE) AMOA DENOUNCES DIRECT SALES – (posted Friday, July 11, 2008 — 8:30PM) In a stinging editorial published in the AMOA’s weekly email newsletter Off-The-Top, the association decried reports
Read More »Midway opens an online arcade game site
When Midway left the arcade industry, it left a lot of people unhappy and in some cases devastated. They had bought up Atari Games not long before that and both companies had been powerhouses
Read More »Neo-Arcadia's booth @ Japan Expo 2008
Japan Expo 2008 was recently held in France and arcade-related website Neo-Arcadia was there with a booth and plenty of screenshots to boot. The arcade presence at the expo brought many games into one
Read More »Next up on the Big Buck Hunter tournies – RAM JAM
Big Buck Safari has been one of my best earning games at my arcade recently (although last week it was beat by (brace yourselves) Indiana Jones Pinball which was the best earning game for
Read More »What is coming for The Stinger Report over the next year
Those of you who read the site regularly know that we get a lot of tips and news from our friends at The Stinger Report. They get a lot of fascinating and important news
Read More »Dance Dance Revolution X
[via Arcade Renaissance] (Not to be confused with a dancing version of “Revolution X”) Konami have just put up a teaser site for thier upcoming new DDR which coincides with the game’s 1o year
Read More »Funland arcade in Toronto, Ontario closing in a few days!
Here at Arcade Heroes we like to focus on the positive of the arcade scene but I feel this needs to be announced. Funland arcade in Toronto, Ontario (Canada) will be closing sometime next
Read More »Nanotech adds three more boards to it's MultiPin system
It looks like Nanotech wasn’t satisfied with adding just Gottlieb tables to their new video pinball game called MultiPin, they now have worked out a deal with Blindmankind pinball to add their tables to
Read More »A look at the Big Bear Arcade in California
It’s been a little while since I had the time to do an arcade location review but hopefully soon I’ll be able to get back onto that. In the meantime it’s great to see
Read More »A look at BlazBlue from AnimeExpo
One of our forum members, PhilVer 0 had the opportunity to go to AnimeExpo in LA last weekend and check out the location test of the new arcade fighter BlazBlue by Arc System Works.
Read More »DDR for Seniors?
And why the hell not! As the Wii has shown, gaming doesn’t have to just be for the younger generation and this seems like one of those obvious ideas that no one has ever
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