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Beavis & Butt-head Prototype Now At The Galloping Ghost Arcade

Beavis & Butt-head Prototype Now At The Galloping Ghost Arcade

arcadehero April 7, 2016 21

During the 1990s while hand drawn cartoons were still a thing, the irreverent Beavis & Butt-head made waves across American culture, lasting on the tube for several years, getting a feature length film and

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3 New Arcade Titles To Be Unveiled At Midwest Gaming Classic This Weekend

3 New Arcade Titles To Be Unveiled At Midwest Gaming Classic This Weekend

arcadehero April 6, 2016 0

UPDATE: The games have been shown off, check them out! The Midwest Gaming Classic event is approaching this weekend and while the name implies that it’s all about older/retro/classic games, that is not always

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Namco Launches Their Star Wars Battle Pod Game Locator

Namco Launches Their Star Wars Battle Pod Game Locator

arcadehero April 4, 2016 11

Back in February, we reported that Bandai Namco Amusements America (the US arcade wing of the BN company) was working on building a Star Wars Battle Pod game locator. One frequent complaint I hear

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Videobytes: Crusin’; VR Zone; Sega Promo; NTG#79

Videobytes: Crusin’; VR Zone; Sega Promo; NTG#79

arcadehero April 2, 2016 4

For this weekends newsbytes it was so heavy on the videos that I figured to call this Videobytes instead. I hope you are all having a good start to your April! Cruisn’ – It’s

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Arcade April Fools Jokes 2016

Arcade April Fools Jokes 2016

arcadehero April 1, 2016 1

Today is a day that not everyone enjoys but I just take it as: you know what’s coming so just have some fun with it. There have been a few April Fools jokes to

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VRf Bringing VR SHOW to Arcades

VRf Bringing VR SHOW to Arcades

arcadehero March 31, 2016 5

UPDATE: This was our contribution to the April Fools joke brigade today. I denounce myself 😛 Although in all honesty, I imagine that if the Vortek unit was redesigned and re-released right now, it

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Konami Launches Dance Dance Revolution A In Japan

Konami Launches Dance Dance Revolution A In Japan

arcadehero March 30, 2016 1

The latest version of Konami’s legendary arcade series Dance Dance Revolution has launched in Japan, known as Dance Dance Revolution A. The new version offers more songs and some other aesthetic changes to the

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Big Buck Wild 2016 Update Rolling Out April 1st

Big Buck Wild 2016 Update Rolling Out April 1st

arcadehero March 28, 2016 0

When Play Mechanix launched the “Wild” update for their Big Buck HD games, it was stated that there would be updates in 2016 and 2017 to help keep the game fresh. Owners of the

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Newsbytes: Major Havoc Repro Cabs; POTC Pinball Color; Pump It Up & Skycurser Updates; NTG#78

Newsbytes: Major Havoc Repro Cabs; POTC Pinball Color; Pump It Up & Skycurser Updates; NTG#78

arcadehero March 26, 2016 6

While we haven’t had a Newsbytes in a little while, but as long as there are quick/short stories, there will be newsbytes. 😛 The arcade where I’m at is also much slower than usual

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More Bar Arcades: Recbar (KY); Harrogate’s Lounge (TN)

More Bar Arcades: Recbar (KY); Harrogate’s Lounge (TN)

arcadehero March 25, 2016 2

Hot on the heels of our story yesterday on four new places to play arcades comes two more locations – the more the merrier 🙂 These two locations are bars with arcades, which continues

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Location Watch: Tappers Arcade Bar; Secret Headquarters; Game Vault; McDonalds I-Drive

Location Watch: Tappers Arcade Bar; Secret Headquarters; Game Vault; McDonalds I-Drive

arcadehero March 24, 2016 0

(Thanks to Michael Louie for the tips) News on new arcade locations has been a little slow lately but that doesn’t mean that things aren’t happening ‘behind the scenes’, so to speak. We’ve got

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War of Currents Arcade Lets Tesla and Edison Duke It Out, Delivers Shocks

War of Currents Arcade Lets Tesla and Edison Duke It Out, Delivers Shocks

arcadehero March 22, 2016 1

(Thanks to Gary Riggins for the tip) I had meant to post this on Saturday as a part of the Newsbytes post but became sidetracked with other necessary work…so let’s use this as an

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