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Aka & Blue Type-R Overseas Orders Begin Shipping
The dust from New Years celebrations and vacations have settled, so now it’s time to get into some news. And for our first bit of news of the year – and the decade –
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Exa Boards By Exa-Arcadia Are Now Available For Pre-Order
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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Newsbytes: Shikhondo Red Purgatory; Do Racing Games Equal Bad Drivers & More
Hello dear readers, and welcome to another round of Newsbytes. There isn’t much to talk about this weekend Deer Farm Teases Q3 Release For Shikhondo Red Purgatory I wasn’t able to get around to
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Taking A Closer Look: Vritra Hexa
Continuing in our previews of upcoming arcade titles thanks to the development of the Exa-Arcadia multi-game platform, let’s shift focus to one of the many shoot ’em ups that will be gracing the system.
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Exa-Arcadia – News, Footage & An In-Depth Interview!
The site has been fairly quiet this week as I took a Summer vacation with the family to the California Extreme even in San Jose, CA. That included time beyond the two days of
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Skycurser June 2017 Update Now Live
We have been following the progress of the independently made video arcade game Skycurser for a while now. If you were like me and bought one of the beta kits then you also have
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Exclusive Arcade Title Skycurser Now Officially Available For Purchase
Back in February 2015, we mentioned a new horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up was headed to arcades by the name of Skycurser. As of today, the game is officially available for purchase so it
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Newsbytes: April Fools; Taito VR; Arcade Easter Eggs; Skycurser;
It has been a little while since our last Newsbytes but this is due to the large amount of time I’m needing to spend remodeling a new spot for my arcade business to move
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Newsbytes: New Redemption/Videmption; Pinball Expo; NTG#
The leaves are changing colors and are falling while business at the arcade begins to pick up after the September doldrums. In the run up to the Winter time, I’ve picked up a Galaga
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Unreleased Arcade Shooter Wing Force (Atlus) Rises From The Grave
Back in 1993, a company by the name of A.I. was working on a new vertical scrolling shooting game called Wing Force. Atlus would publish the game but as things worked out, the game
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As mentioned on the blog the other day, I was expecting a new game to arrive into my hands this week that has some very interesting potential for our industry at large. Known as
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Newsbytes: Big Buck Championships; Skycurser Beta; Aliens Armageddon Unbox; Groove Coaster 3; NTG#62
We are only a week away from Halloween, the holiday for candy lovers everywhere. I’m not sure what most arcades out there do to celebrate – I have heard of sites holding cosplay competitions
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