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Arcade Heroes Players Choice Game Of The Year Poll 2012

Arcade Heroes Players Choice Game Of The Year Poll 2012

arcadehero December 23, 2012 2

It’s that time of year again, where as it comes to a close we want to know what you the players found to be the arcade Game Of The Year for 2012. There was

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Arcade Tour: Clacton-on-Sea, UK (Summer 2012)

Arcade Tour: Clacton-on-Sea, UK (Summer 2012)

HeavyElectricity August 6, 2012 3

With a stack of £1 coins and a camera phone, HeavyElectricity seeks to document the arcade experience in Clacton

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Sega Amusements USA releases GRID Deluxe

Sega Amusements USA releases GRID Deluxe

arcadehero May 25, 2011 5

First revealed at the London EAG Expo, Sega Amusements USA has announced today that the deluxe version of their arcade racing title GRID is now available in North America. The most obvious item to

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Friction and Frightmareland now available

Friction and Frightmareland now available

arcadehero March 11, 2011 2

Two new arcade games are available for arcades and other entertainment venues to pick up for their locations, but the release news for each game may have become a little lost in the other

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Vote for the Arcade Game of the Year 2010

Vote for the Arcade Game of the Year 2010

arcadehero December 22, 2010 16

It’s that time of year again, the one where you the arcade fans get to pick your favorite game of 2010 as the Arcade Heroes Game of the Year. I decided to start the

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IAAPA 2010 – Namco Booth

IAAPA 2010 – Namco Booth

arcadehero November 19, 2010 6

Next up as part of our IAAPA 2010 coverage is Namco. Like Amusement Expo, the company had a large booth where Pac-Man was a big star but they also had plenty of other new

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Weekend news: RoadFighters Impressions, CEC earnings report, Namco game quiz

Weekend news: RoadFighters Impressions, CEC earnings report, Namco game quiz

arcadehero November 6, 2010 3

To start off our weekend, a few items to “cleanse the palette” with, especially if you are bored to death over the plethora of Microsoft Kinect coverage many game blogs are getting into right

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Report: Namco/Brent open day 2010

Report: Namco/Brent open day 2010

HeavyElectricity September 24, 2010 3

Tuesday was quite a busy day, to say the least. While I knew that I’d be visiting Sega for a product launch, I was unaware that Namco was also running an open day. Many

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Report: Sega Amusements Europe product launch 2010

Report: Sega Amusements Europe product launch 2010

HeavyElectricity September 22, 2010 5

There’s nothing quite like the promise of new arcade games to get you through an otherwise undesirable journey on the London Underground. Even though I’ve been on it fairly regularly as of late, I

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Konami testing Space Agent in Japan, a new shooter that uses Augmented Reality

Konami testing Space Agent in Japan, a new shooter that uses Augmented Reality

Shaggy August 20, 2010 0

The Am-Net Blog has pictures of the marketing materials for a new Konami light-gun game testing in Japan called Space Agent. The only info we have about it comes from the posted media, which

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Exclusive: The last coin-op project at Midway Chicago, RIP SQUAD: Raids Against the Reich

Exclusive: The last coin-op project at Midway Chicago, RIP SQUAD: Raids Against the Reich

Shaggy April 27, 2010 9

Back in 2001, Midway made a decision to dump their long standing coin-op division in favor of focusing developments on console gaming.  When that decision came down, there were still some arcade games floating

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Big Buck Hunter Pro iPhone app (with an arcade finder) UPDATED

Big Buck Hunter Pro iPhone app (with an arcade finder) UPDATED

Shaggy October 27, 2009 6

While there have been many new games on the Apple iPhone which are conversions of an arcade game in some form or another, we have not seen many modern arcade ports to the platform.

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