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Super Sizing Amusement! – Part 1
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams (KWP), takes a look at the history of the “Deluxe” and “Super Deluxe” categories of arcade cabinet hardware. These
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Retro Arcade Remakes & Atari Join Forces For PCB Reproductions [UPDATED]
[Thanks to GraffitiTavern for the tip] [UPDATE 5/1/23] – Retro Arcades got back to me and stated: “Licensed Atari PCB boards Major Havoc, Black Widow, Gravitor, War Lords, Lunar Lander are now available food
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Retrospective: PCs Powering Arcade Machines
April tends to be a very slow month for arcade news, since most of the info that pertains to the industry (particularly brand new games) takes place at Amusement Expo. So to help fill
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Arcade Retrospective: The Tech That Nearly Killed the Arcade Industry!
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes, industry specialist Kevin Williams looks at the marking of the 40th anniversary of a technology that was then hailed as a ‘savior of coin-op’
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Previewing the Arcade Anniversaries of 2023
Each year marks some kind of anniversary, although we tend to only pay attention to those ending in a 0 or a 5. This year saw Atari celebrating 50 years, and where I got
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Newsbytes: Heavyweight Champ Footage; Pac-Mom; The PolyRetro; New Raw Thrills Mobile Game; Spinal Tap Pinball & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a semi-regular collection of arcade & pinball news items from around the world. This week has quite a few interesting stories, particularly when it comes to arcade history, so I hope
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2021 Year-In-Review With The Top 10 Posts
Welcome to something of an annual tradition here at Arcade Heroes, albeit something sort of rare on my part – a Top 10 list. I’m not big on such lists since most of them
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Kevin Williams: GameWorks – The Slow Collapse Of The Dream!
Ending the year with a new guest post for the site, industry specialist Kevin Williams takes time to look back at the tempestuous history of Gameworks – when Hollywood came to arcades. He sent
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KWP Guest Post: Nintendo & Others Return To Out-Of-Home Entertainment
Apologies for the various issues plaguing the site over the past few weeks. While my hosting service has been quick to fix them when I alert them to it, it’s also not something that
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The Video Arcade Industry Turns 50 As We Mark The Launch Of Computer Space
50 years ago today, things would change forever in interactive entertainment – not just for the coin-op amusement industry, but for video games as a whole. While a day in September is for some
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Newsbytes: Eugene Jarvis Talks Cruis’n History; exA Updates; Miner 2049er Arcade;
Welcome to Newsbytes, a semi-regular weekend post that brings together news from around the world of arcades and pinball. Eugene Jarvis Talks Cruis’n USA History I’d been teasing this interview for a while and
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Newsbytes: Mr Do! Returning To Arcades; Smash Bros Arcade; Arcade History & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a weekend/bi-weekend curation of news items from around the arcade world. I tried to find something from pinball too, but it seems fairly quiet there right now. I finally had the
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