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The Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown 2008
Here’s one event that passed under my radar – the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown 2008 in Golden, Colorado. Pinball is quite popular in my state of Utah, so I imagine that a few people
Read More »Reproducing arcade artwork
One of the coolest aspects of arcade games is the artwork that companies commissioned to be made to decorate each cabinet. The better the artwork was, the more attractive the cabinet became. This was
Read More »Dig Dug: The Untold Story by the Duo Group
I saw this linked on the KLOV forums and had to share it. It’s a couple of months old but if you haven’t seen it, it’s rather funny. There is some violence in it
Read More »The Asteroids Lamp
Even though Atari never created many memorable characters they created plenty of icons and symbols that people easily recognize. One of those would be the rocks from Asteroids, which have been brought to the
Read More »Seen on eBay – Star Trek Arcade's Bridge Chair
A long time ago on Arcade Heroes we had weekly updates on interesting arcade-related stuff on eBay but we obviously haven’t been keeping up on that very well. But I just had to mention
Read More »Rochester Game Room Show Coverage
I am sorry I am a little late with the coverage but here’s some videos from last week’s Rochester Game Room Show: Overview Part 1 Overview Part 2 Some of the parts that were
Read More »A look back at Virtuality
Remember those VR arcade machines that were supposed to revolutionize the way we played games? It sure would have been great if they could have truly lived up to the promises made but honestly
Read More »Shaggy's Review – Sea Wolf by Coastal Amusements
I am going to try and review all the games I had a chance to play at ASI over the next few weeks – just as long as I can find the time to
Read More »Midwest Gaming Classic 2008 – Arcades & Pins video
Here is a video of a walk through the pinball and arcade area of the Midwest Gaming Classic. The pins definently outnumber the arcades from the looks of it but either way I’m certain
Read More »What have we been playing…. or not in my case
As you can see Shaggy’s been a busy playing all sorts of great games at ASI, unfortunately I have had very little time to play games or do any posts for the website for
Read More »Reminder – Rochester Game Room Show this weekend
This is just a friendly reminder that the Rochester, NY Game Room Show will be happening this weekend. I have been busy getting ready for the show! I will be there and will have
Read More »What have we been playing…..
I hate it when I don’t have much time for gaming, but you can be damn sure I’ll be making time for GTA IV when it comes out! At least Shaggy’s making up for
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