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Arcade Heroes – 100,000 hits and rising
We’ve just hit a milestone and it’s all thanks to you, the readers of Arcade Heroes. While 100,000 hits may not be impressive for certain websites or blogs that get that number of people in a day or week, for a ‘niche blog’ such as ours, talking about arcades/pinballs and little else I find it »
A detailed history of Atari 1971-1977
Gamasutra has posted a detailed and accurate history of Atari from 1971-1977, a period which covers Atari’s early coin-op days where their coin-op division was primary to any home division at the time. It is an intriguing look at one of the fallen giants of the game insdustry that is currently in dire trouble »
Awesome Neon Game Room Signs
If the shipping on these signs wasn’t ridiculously high ($143 USD) I’d be all over these for my own game room (or arcade). Either way they look really nice and cover both arcade and pinball enthusiasts. [Neonpinball.com] [Discuss on the Forum »
Black Spiderman pin on Stern Website
Stern Pinball has updated their website with information on their recently announced Limited Edition Black Spiderman pinball machine. As you can see the only difference is the artwork (which looks better than the original IMO) and the price tag. This will be available in November. [Stern Pinball] [Discuss on the Forum »
Arcade Flyer Archives up for sale in 2008
Found something interesting while looking through one of my news site scanners – the curator of The Arcade Flyer Archive is going to be selling off a huge portion of his collection to continue paying for his great site. The flyers will be going for $1 a piece and will be available next year. »
Spiderman Challenge
Still waiting to play this latest Stern table, hopefully Preview? [via Barcade] Stern Pinball is hosting the 2007 IFPA-AMOA Pinball Championship at the AMOA International Expo Show in Las Vegas. The Championship will be held September 27-29th at the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Halls 3 & 4 at Stern’s Booth #2220. Everyone »
What We Are Playing This Week……
I just beat my Pac-Man CE highscore which is now 281,000. Anyone got higher than that? Shaggy -Metroid 3 (Wii) -Ms. Pac-Man (arcade) -Gone Fishin’ (arcade) -Simpson’s Party Pinball -Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift (arcade) Twisted Supreme -Bioshock (360) -Virtua Tennis 3 (360) -Pac-Man CE (360) -Geometry Wars (360) [Discuss on the Forum »
Two More Videos From Press Start Comic
To more great videos from PressStartComic Here’s a video tour of Too Many Games in Reading PA. For just two bucks you could browse around in this giant swap meet of classic video games! They also had tournaments and some free play arcade games too! And here’s a video tour of the Challenge Arcade »
Stern Still Going Strong
The New York Times published a story that profiled small, entrepreneurial companies that are/have made changes to adapt to changing times and markets. One of these companies was the one and only Stern Pinball, read on….. Take Gary Stern, a second-generation pinball entrepreneur. In the early 1990s, about five companies in the United »
Mid-Atlantic Coin Op Show 2007
If anything is an indication of the popularity of arcades being on an upswing, it should be the amount of arcade shows that are occurring this year. There was the Funspot tournament, California Extreme, the Classic Gaming Expo and a few others. Now I stumbled across another event that is going to take place »
The Stinger Report – Flat Screens
The Stinger Report takes time to look at new technology influencing the video amusement scene with the latest flat screen systems deployed in new, sleekly designed cabinets. From Konami’s initial 2001 design and from recent video pinball, to newly designed conventional cabinets that borrow their originality from the replacement of CRT displays. Among these »
Pics from this years California Extreme event!
(Photos Courtesy of Ataricade (www.ataricade.com)) The California Extreme(CAX) event has come and gone but with it are a ton of pics! Here we are reposting many pictures taken by user Ataricade (who runs an awesome Atari arcade related website). The event looks like it was a total success judging by not only the pictures »
