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Virtua Fighter 5 Ver. D Details
[Via Arcade Renaissance] Sega has unveiled some details on the latest version of the VF5 arcade that is going to be coming out to challenge Tekken 6 in arcades. If you were hoping for
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review – Rockin' Bowl-a-Rama by Namco
I had a chance to play a bowling arcade game this past week and I figured it would be nice to check it out. Since bowling games have had a surge in popularity as
Read More »Fate: Unlimited Gods Website update
(Click to Enlarge) It certainly didn’t take long for the Fate: Unlimited Codes website to be updated(we reported about this new 3D fighter by Capcom a couple of days ago). Just the other day
Read More »Square Enix 1st-half Net Profit up 32% thanks to arcades
Software giant Square-Enix has announced that it’s net profit for April-September jumped up 32.5% and it’s not thanks so much to console games but arcade titles. As quoted by an article found on @
Read More »Article: "Evolving Arcade Culture"
[Via Argus Leader, Sioux Fall SD] Here is another news article that discusses the current state of arcades as well as the culture of arcades. While it misses the target on a few points(such
Read More »The Act Part 2 – Physical movement sequence
OK here is the next part of The Act that I promised to record for everyone, a part where you control the main character Edgar and his movement through the hospital hallways. It is
Read More »UFO Stomper in action
Here is a video from Trio-tech’s website showing their new UFO Stomper platform in action at IAAPA 2007. It certainly is attracting a lot of attention at the show. [Trio-Tech website] [Discuss on the
Read More »Another new arcade fighter from Capcom – Fate: Unlimited Codes
Just a day or two after hearing Capcom was going to increase it’s focus on it’s arcade locations comes news of a new fighter coming out of the the company known as Fate: Unlimited
Read More »Exclusive – First Tekken 6 test location shots in US
[Via The Stinger Report] Namco has begun testing Tekken 6 in the US and we have an exclusive look at the test cabinets which are at the IAAPA 2007 event, thanks to our friends
Read More »Arcade Heroes – 100,000 hits and rising
We’ve just hit a milestone and it’s all thanks to you, the readers of Arcade Heroes. While 100,000 hits may not be impressive for certain websites or blogs that get that number of people
Read More »UFO Stomper by Trio-Tech – foot controlled action on a new level
We have previously discussed “Interactive Floor” arcade games such as LightSpace but this new system from Trio-Tech takes the cake. While I have seen projected game systems before in malls, I have not seen
Read More »Randy Fromm's Monitor Repair videos
If you plan on working on an arcade monitor anytime in the future then you really need to watch these videos by the master of arcade repair, Randy Fromm. There are 9 videos total
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