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Pinball: Videos of The Walking Dead and America’s Most Haunted

Pinball: Videos of The Walking Dead and America’s Most Haunted

arcadehero September 24, 2014 0

It is still a good time for pinball as we approach the busiest holiday season for pinballs seen in years. I got to talk a little bit about pinball at a school today as

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Console-To-Arcade #1: Gauntlet; Kokuga; Riptide GP2

Console-To-Arcade #1: Gauntlet; Kokuga; Riptide GP2

arcadehero September 23, 2014 8

One trend that is a part of the modern arcade landscape is that of the Console-To-Arcade port. It was a very rare, but not unheard of occurrence, in the Golden Age. As development focus and

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Discussion: What Will Bandai Namco Announce At The New York Comic Con?

Discussion: What Will Bandai Namco Announce At The New York Comic Con?

arcadehero September 18, 2014 9

With slow news this week I am going to do something a little different here. This post is for laying out some information then seeking your opinions on it, along with a little bit of

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Remembering Sega’s NAOMI-Based Arcade Hardware

Remembering Sega’s NAOMI-Based Arcade Hardware

arcadehero September 9, 2014 6

Today there is a lot of remembrance for Sega’s last home game console, the Dreamcast. I’m not here to get into why that effort failed but rather to remember something that came from all of Sega’s

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Labor Day Weekend News – Pinball, Big Buck HD, Sonic Rise Of The Hedgehog, NTG #14

Labor Day Weekend News – Pinball, Big Buck HD, Sonic Rise Of The Hedgehog, NTG #14

arcadehero August 30, 2014 4

It’s Labor Day weekend in the USA and I don’t have a bunch of time to spend on this multi-news post so it will be “short.” For anyone taking the weekend off, have a

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The Walking Dead Pinball Coming Soon From Stern

The Walking Dead Pinball Coming Soon From Stern

arcadehero August 27, 2014 6

As you well know it has been a busy year for pinball, with the end of the year looking to be the busiest in terms of new releases since the beginning of the century.

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New Arcade Trailers: Power Truck Special;  NEON FM Multiplayer & Lost Land Adventure English Version

New Arcade Trailers: Power Truck Special; NEON FM Multiplayer & Lost Land Adventure English Version

arcadehero August 26, 2014 4

We are slowly inching our way to IAAPA 2014, which is when we expect more news about new games to share. I actually am sitting on the stories of two brand new games as

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Pokkén Tournament Announced For Japanese Arcades

Pokkén Tournament Announced For Japanese Arcades

arcadehero August 26, 2014 3

Quite a while ago, I was browsing a video gaming forum and in some discussion about the WiiU there was an animated gif showing a scene from a game rumored to be in the

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ABC News Report on The Current State of Arcades

ABC News Report on The Current State of Arcades

arcadehero August 21, 2014 3

The other day I mentioned in a post that I had been contacted by an ABC News Reporter who was researching the modern arcade industry to find out more about the current state of

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Newsbytes: ImmersiON-VRelia, GameOn Berlin, Pinball & NTG #13

Newsbytes: ImmersiON-VRelia, GameOn Berlin, Pinball & NTG #13

arcadehero August 16, 2014 5

Happy weekend everyone, here is some news for you to use: ImmersiON VRelia Since Oculus Rift came onto the scene and re-ignited interest in Virtual Reality, we have seen demos and heard talk of

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Wahlap Launches Teratoma The Last Rebellion Arcade Game For the West

Wahlap Launches Teratoma The Last Rebellion Arcade Game For the West

arcadehero August 12, 2014 2

Back at IAAPA 2013, a lot of brand new arcade games were shown off that would find their ways into venues all over the world. Among the surge of new games included one that

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Adrenaline Amusement’s Flappy Tickets Brings Flappy Gaming To Arcades

Adrenaline Amusement’s Flappy Tickets Brings Flappy Gaming To Arcades

arcadehero August 5, 2014 8

The situation surrounding the mobile app Flappy Bird was an odd one but it did generate a lot of interest in the whole idea, with armies of Flappy-like games flooding mobile devices after the original

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