Unique Games »

Newsbytes: Samurai Spirits AC; Star Trek VR for Dave & Busters; AAMA Awards; Piano Pinball & More

Newsbytes: Samurai Spirits AC; Star Trek VR for Dave & Busters; AAMA Awards; Piano Pinball & More

arcadehero April 6, 2019 1

Hello valiant readers, and welcome to another edition of Newsbytes. If you’re new to the site, Newsbytes are posted every Saturday and feature a variety of quick news items from the wonderful world of

Read More »
Delving Into Galactic Battleground by Slackerz Inc.

Delving Into Galactic Battleground by Slackerz Inc.

arcadehero April 4, 2019 1

The big surprise of Amusement Expo 2019 for me, was the strong focus on indie-made arcade games. These are titles that have not been developed by one of the major manufacturers that we generally

Read More »
Bandai Namco Amusements Confirms Super Smash Bros. Arcade For Arcades (UPDATED)

Bandai Namco Amusements Confirms Super Smash Bros. Arcade For Arcades (UPDATED)

arcadehero April 1, 2019 9

UPDATE: Some information of the most important nature has been added to the bottom of the post. Please check it out on this, the first day of April, 2019. 2019 has been quite the

Read More »
New Games For Arcades: Indie Games Storm The Scene (Amusement Expo 2019)

New Games For Arcades: Indie Games Storm The Scene (Amusement Expo 2019)

arcadehero March 30, 2019 1

UPDATE: Video for Retro Raccoons has been re-added to the post below; it had been there, but a glitch had removed just that one. The Spring event for the trade of arcade/amusement games has

Read More »
Newsbytes: Dead Man’s Hand; Yellow Brick Road WOZ; Step ManiaX; High Score Girl Term 2 & More

Newsbytes: Dead Man’s Hand; Yellow Brick Road WOZ; Step ManiaX; High Score Girl Term 2 & More

arcadehero March 23, 2019 1

Hello, and welcome to another exciting edition of Newsbytes. This is a collection of quick arcade/pinball news items to get you caught up. While you might not expect a collector/fan focused event to be

Read More »
Bay Tek Entertainment Unveils Connect 4 Hoops HD

Bay Tek Entertainment Unveils Connect 4 Hoops HD

arcadehero March 19, 2019 0

Last year, one big announcement came along from Bay Tek that turned some heads, as they created an Augmented Reality basketball arcade game by the name of Connect 4 Hoops. First shown at the

Read More »
Raw Thrills Announces The Arrival Of Slither.io Arcade

Raw Thrills Announces The Arrival Of Slither.io Arcade

arcadehero March 18, 2019 0

This past October, we ran a story about the development of Slither.io for arcades by Raw Thrills. If you are unfamiliar with the game, you can play it for free in your browser here;

Read More »
New Release: Black Emperor (BumbleBear Games)

New Release: Black Emperor (BumbleBear Games)

arcadehero March 15, 2019 2

It’s not often that we have news about two new game releases for the West on the same day, but we’ll take it! In case you missed it, the other one is UNIS’ Fantasy

Read More »
New Indie Arcade Game: DeathBall

New Indie Arcade Game: DeathBall

arcadehero March 12, 2019 2

Friction. Killer Queen Arcade. Skycurser. Cosmotrons. Tipsy Raccoons. Rashlander. These are just a few of the indie titles that have found their way to coin-op arcades over the past several years. Now there is

Read More »
Arcade History: The Atari Dance Machine

Arcade History: The Atari Dance Machine

arcadehero February 27, 2019 2

There isn’t much arcade news this week, so let’s jump into something from the days of arcade past; something that had it been released “in the day” would have been almost three decades ahead

Read More »
Dave & Busters Officially Unveils Marvel: Contest Of Champions Arcade

Dave & Busters Officially Unveils Marvel: Contest Of Champions Arcade

arcadehero February 14, 2019 9

We recently heard about a new game that was on it’s way to Dave & Busters arcade locations around the country, a 1v1 fighting game with a big license by the name of Marvel:

Read More »
Playing A “Long Lost” Laserdisc Prototype: The Spectre Files: Deathstalker

Playing A “Long Lost” Laserdisc Prototype: The Spectre Files: Deathstalker

arcadehero February 5, 2019 2

Way back in 2013, I wrote up a couple of articles that detailed the history of unreleased arcade games that were in the works at one time by Midway. Similar posts had been created

Read More »