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Cotton Rock ‘n’ Roll exA Edition Now Shipping Worldwide

Cotton Rock ‘n’ Roll exA Edition Now Shipping Worldwide

arcadehero February 10, 2022 1

It’s been a few months – October last – since exA-Arcadia released a new title to their platform, but the dry spell has ended as they have begun shipping their first game of 2022,

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Bandai Namco Amusements Launches Maximum Tune 5DX+ In North America

Bandai Namco Amusements Launches Maximum Tune 5DX+ In North America

arcadehero January 12, 2022 1

It’s unusual for us to have a specific release date for arcade games here in the West – often times games will just ship without public notice until they just appear on location. Fortunately

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Cosmotrons Now Available As A Kit Purchase For Commercial Or Home Use

Cosmotrons Now Available As A Kit Purchase For Commercial Or Home Use

arcadehero October 30, 2021 1

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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Incredible Technologies To Relaunch Three Of Their Classics With ‘Arcade Collection’

Incredible Technologies To Relaunch Three Of Their Classics With ‘Arcade Collection’

arcadehero August 9, 2021 1

The dog days of summer and arcade news don’t seem to go together too well, although the desire to come across anything arcade-news related today had me on a hunt across a bunch of

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Let’s Unbox And Install An Exa-Arcadia System

Let’s Unbox And Install An Exa-Arcadia System

arcadehero February 4, 2020 1

It’s been two years since we first revealed the effort to create a new conversion kit platform for arcades by the name of the Exa-Arcadia, and after a variety of stories regarding the platform,

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Exa Boards By Exa-Arcadia Are Now Available For Pre-Order

Exa Boards By Exa-Arcadia Are Now Available For Pre-Order

arcadehero November 2, 2019 2

The Exa board, by Exa-Arcadia, is something that has been a frequent subject of the posts here on Arcade Heroes. In case you missed those posts, let me sum it up in a sentence:

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Andamiro Officially Rolls Out Pump It Up XX 20th Anniversary Edition

Andamiro Officially Rolls Out Pump It Up XX 20th Anniversary Edition

arcadehero February 6, 2019 1

While this was mentioned on the blog the other day, press releases tend to give us another reason to discuss new game releases in more detail. The 20th anniversary edition of Andamiro’s seminal dancing

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Exa-Arcadia & G.Rev Opens Pre-Orders For Strania EX

Exa-Arcadia & G.Rev Opens Pre-Orders For Strania EX

arcadehero June 4, 2018 1

Good Monday morning fellow Arcade Heroes! I didn’t find enough content to do a Newsbytes with this weekend (that and I was a bit busy). But now we have a quick item to cover

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Newsbytes: Redline Rampage; Cosmotrons Map Contest; NEO GEO Mini; Factory Video Updates; Pinball

Newsbytes: Redline Rampage; Cosmotrons Map Contest; NEO GEO Mini; Factory Video Updates; Pinball

arcadehero May 12, 2018 0

It was a quiet week on the site as I was busy, busy, busy working on a game conversion of a Need For Speed Underground to a Redline Rampage Gas Guzzlers and troubleshooting that.

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ExA Arcade Board Gains Support From G.Rev, Seibu Kaihatsu & City Connection

ExA Arcade Board Gains Support From G.Rev, Seibu Kaihatsu & City Connection

arcadehero February 12, 2018 3

Last week, we ran a story about a new company that is looking to bring content to arcades by the name of Exa-Arcadia. They made their first public appearance at the JAEPO 2018 show

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ExA-Arcadia To Introduce New Kit System At JAEPO 2018

ExA-Arcadia To Introduce New Kit System At JAEPO 2018

arcadehero February 7, 2018 5

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

Tracking down the Namco Galaxian 3 6 Player Theater from Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada and Beyond

SaraAB87 August 8, 2017 14

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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