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Celebrating Space Invader's 30th anniversary
Cometh the Invader! The 30th Anniversary of ‘Space Invaders’ will play a major part in promoting the Taito empire over the coming months – the AOU show in Japan will be awash with celebrations. But before the corporate historians ‘whitewash’ the brand beyond recognition, The Stinger Report wanted to share the compiled time line »
Passing through Vegas and need an arcade to go to?
When most people think of gaming in Vegas, only gambling comes to mind but even in large casinos the chances of finding an arcade game room there are pretty good. In fact there are a number of arcades in Vegas, from small game rooms to large gaming centers that are practically amusement parks in »
Play Meter's State of the Industry Report for 2007
We always hear the numbers for how good or bad the console industry is doing in terms of how much cash it pulls in or sales of total units, which is an awful lot (something in the neighborhood of $17+ billion last year for video game sales) but they overlook the arcade industry entirely. »
New arcade opened in Maryland
UPDATE: Seems that this placed closed not long after this article was published. You can search for a local arcade by starting here at the master location list over at Aurcade.com. Game Time, a new arcade has just opened up in Cockeysville, Maryland. It is north of Baltimore. It is very nice to hear »
First details on Rochester Game Room Show Emerge
The Rochester Game Room show is a local buy and sell event of all game room equipment including arcade games and pinball machines. You can also come just to play the games, they have entertainment for everyone. It is located in Rochester, NY. In addition to these items they have pretty much everything »
What Have We Been Playing This Week…..
So after a lack of gaming whilst I was in Oz, (apart from some SNES action, because I took my console out with me as my mate was dying for some Mario Kart and SF2) I am now getting back in to my 2 favourites; Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4. And boy »
Another industry vet passes away – Steve Kaufman
This is the second death in the coin-op industry that I’m sad to report in the past couple of weeks. Steve Kaufman passed away last night after a two-year battle with cancer. He started out as an operator and worked at many different coin-op businesses including “Runyon Distributing, Rowe, Games of Nevada, Williams Pinball, »
Happy New Year Everyone
As this will probably be the last post here at Arcade Heroes for 2007, now is a good time to wish all of you a Happy New Year. 2007 was pretty good, it certainly was for the site and I’m glad I could be a part of it. 2008 is going to be a »
An unexpected surprise in Sunday's paper
(Click to enlarge) While I don’t bother getting a newspaper at home (I have the internet so not much of a need) my parents do and when I stopped by their home as I usually do on Sunday’s, they showed me something in the Sunday ads that took me by surprise. It was a »
Game of the Year: The Results
So after a month of voting the results are in and the winner is a not a total surprise considering it’s following. Can you guess what it is yet? (yes I know I’ve given it away with the picture!) And the winner is………………… Sega’s Virtua Fighter 5! Following up closely in joint second are Global VR’s »
Coin-op coverage coming to Good Morning America thanks to AAMA
[Via CoinOPToday.com] At Arcade Heroes we are always happy to report any efforts that the coin-op industry makes to promote itself to the public – it’s something we strive to do every day but you need more than a blog to get the word out to everyone. So I am quite happy to hear »
Only One Week To Go! Vote Now For Your Game Of The Year!
So seeing as we are coming up to our first birthday and as we creep closer and closer to have achieved 100,000 hits we thought what better way to celebrate than to hold a poll on your game of the year (released in the UK and/or North America). Granted it’s not the most original »
