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Vidcast: Interview with Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report & DNA Association
Long time readers of the site are familiar with The Stinger Report, a long-running amusement/out-of-home entertainment industry newsletter and the earliest of outside contributors to Arcade Heroes. That newsletter was founded in 1994 by
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Getting Detailed: Atari Gotcha Color Edition & Arcade Raid on a Boat
Two very detailed stories related to arcades have popped up on the interwebs so instead of leaving them for the weekend post, let’s take a look at both here. Atari Gotcha Color Edition Restored
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Arcade review and history: Skyquest Arcade at the Basement of the Skylon Tower, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
I will start off by saying that at the basement of an international landmark sits an arcade, an arcade that contains things that one does not simply see in today’s modern day arcades. The
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Newsbytes: Sega Arcade History Site; Strike Harbringer; Savage Quest 2.1
Today is fairly sparse for the newsbytes as not a whole lot is happening it seems. That’s ok, we’ll share what little news there is anyways! New Sega Arcade History Site – Fortunately this
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Games Turning 40,20, 30 and 10 in 2016
With each year that passes, we take a look at games celebrating a certain anniversary via a post. This year however, I decided to go the video route and make these long videos covering
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Big Buck World Championships 2015 Wrap Up
As mentioned on Saturday, the Big Buck World Championship took place and after many players battled it out, one came out as ‘the’ World Champion – previous 2013 champ Trev Garner took home the
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Mario In Arcades Through The Years
This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the popular Super Mario Bros. video game launching on Nintendo’s first home console in the US, the NES. Nintendo recently launched this page to celebrate 30 years
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Enjoy 30 Minutes of AOU/AM Show Footage from 1991 & ’92
These days we all expect to see footage of arcade games from trade shows or venues since cameras are found everywhere. But that wasn’t the case from the earlier days of arcade gaming when
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Missing In Action: Maze Games
This week has been super slow for arcade news so this has given me some time to work on an article I’ve had floating in the queue for a while now. A few years
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Dinosaurs At The Arcade!
Among the trends one might get into as a child, there are many to choose from. One that pops up every now and then in the greater culture are dinosaurs. The ancient beasts have
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Entretenimientos DIANA Celebrates 80 Years Of Arcade Fun In Chile
(Thanks to Sebastian Moraga for the info) Statistically speaking, most businesses are lucky to make the 1 year mark; 5 years is a real milestone but what about 80 years in business? That can
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Over The Years: Star Wars At The Arcade
At the beginning of 1977, if one was to bet that Star Wars would become the cultural phenomenon that it is today, that would have been a risky guess if you had money on
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