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Cosmotrons Now Available As A Kit Purchase For Commercial Or Home Use
It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned the indie game Cosmotrons on the blog, but today there’s some news about it to share with you. Having launched in 2018, Cosmotrons takes the idea of
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ExA-Arcadia To Introduce New Kit System At JAEPO 2018
Conversion kits were the bread & butter of the arcade industry around 1984 when operators already had more cabinets than they really wanted to deal with. With the introduction of the JAMMA wiring standard
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Tracking down the Namco Galaxian 3 6 Player Theater from Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada and Beyond
Here at Arcade Heroes we like to track down arcade games to find out what happened to them if they are no longer on location, especially if its a game that is rarely seen
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Spook-O-Tron Coming To Playchoice-10 Arcades In Late 2017
We have covered the development of new content for old arcade hardware before but it isn’t something that we come across very often. With a large selection of arcade boards to choose from, interested
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The Fast & The Furious Tokyo Drift Conversion Kit Officially released
At ASI it was confirmed that Raw Thrills’ would release a conversion kit for their racer Tokyo Drift and now we have the official word that the kits are now available. As we have
Read More »The Hot Seat Arcade system of the 1980s
Here is another obscure simulator to ponder. The Hot Seat was a motion based simulator produced in the mid 1980’s. This simulator did not come with any dedicated game, its intention was to be
Read More »Wii House of the Dead Box Art
[via GoNintendo] I don’t know what it is about box art, but it always gets me more excited about a game. Especially when it has zombies on it! [Discuss on the Forum
Read More »House of the Dead 2 & 3 Confirmed for Wii
Now this one we all saw coming a mile off. I can picture it now in the Sega boardroom… So we’ve done Ghost Squad for Wii, what other lightgun arcade games can we
Read More »The Act Has Arrived!
I received my conversion kit for The Act today and I can hardly wait to spend some real time with the game. I hope to play it enough that I can write a
Read More »Hellcade – A Collection of Horrid Arcade Conversions
One bad thing you occasionally run into in the world of arcade gaming are conversions – when someone takes one game cabinet and modifies it so it can play a different game. This usually
Read More »Sega "Arcade" Console Releases
Sega have just given dates for thier upcoming console releases, most of which are arcade ports, which is all good by me! Virtua Fighter 5 (360) – 26th October Ghost Squad (Wii) – 2nd November
Read More »Arcade Card Battlers For The Home?
Kotaku ran a post about about the Dragon Quest Video and brought up a good point about weather or not the technology of the PS3 Eye could be used to support a home version of the Dragon
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