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Southend Voted Pier of the Year

April 10, 2007, No Comments on Southend Voted Pier of the Year

Southend Pier has been named Pier of the Year 2007 by the National Piers Society, the same day a public consultation to shape its future was launched at the landward end of Pier. Gavin Henderson, president of the National Piers Society the UK’s longest pier had been chosen for the award because of its »

Alien Extermination Review by Shaggy

April 4, 2007, 3 Comments on Alien Extermination Review by Shaggy

  A little belated on my part by here’s a review, on one of Global VR’s more recent games, from one of our Arcade Heroes Forum Members, Shaggy . Cheers dude! Introduction After the events that occured in Aliens, The Company wants to make sure that the threat was completely eliminated from the planet where they »

The Urge for Multi-Ball

April 3, 2007, No Comments on The Urge for Multi-Ball

I was curious to know what has happened to the pinball scene in recent years and other than at the ATEI, where I played on Sterns latest offering Family Guy, I have not seen a pinball table anywhere. Forgive me if there are still lots about, maybe I’m just going to the wrong places. »

Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift – Video

April 2, 2007, 2 Comments on Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift – Video

 Was just tipped on this by one of our members on the Arcade Heroes Forum  Shaggy writes; “I noticed that Raw Thrills has a page up right now that features pics and video of their latest driving game, Drift. Graphically it’s pretty underwhelming IMO, it’s not much better than Rush 2049″ Would have to »

Mario & Sonic together at last!!!

March 28, 2007, No Comments on Mario & Sonic together at last!!!

Wow what a historic day, Nintendo and SEGA have announced that Mario & Sonic will appear in a game together for the first time. Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games is coming for the DS and Wii. Read more at the Nintendo site “It would have been unthinkable ten years ago, but two »

Time Crisis 4 coming to PS3

March 27, 2007, 1 Comment on Time Crisis 4 coming to PS3

Another arcade conversion is coming over to PS3 soon, but surely there going to have to add some polish to this game because the PS3 is capable of handling a lot more graphically than TC4 put out. [From Joystiq]  EB Games lists a PS3 version of arcade game Time Crisis 4 that mightbe released late »

What's New In The Arcades – March 07

March 23, 2007, No Comments on What's New In The Arcades – March 07

  [Thanks to Spong and The Stinger Report] We continue our monthly coverage of the international amusement scene for SPOnG with the latest run-down of the new releases. Last months arcade coverage looked at amusement based cross-over products, but the popularity of consumer gaming is nothing to the success of a good driver, fighter »

Another Golden Tee for your Home

March 20, 2007, No Comments on Another Golden Tee for your Home

While I’m on the subject of Golden Tee, I have found another version of the game for your home. This one, weighing in at a cheaper £19.95, is a plug and play game much like the Street Fighter and Namco plug and plays that have been out for a while now. The best bit about »

The Joy of Sticks

March 15, 2007, No Comments on The Joy of Sticks

Now if only if I lived in a America. I would so be going to this event, read on. If you are in the Wisconsin area this week, make sure you stop by The Wisconsin Historical Society. Until March 18th they are having an arcade game exhibit: The Joy of Sticks! Retro-Arcade Week Fundraiser. »

gamesTM Reviews Afterburner Climax

March 7, 2007, 3 Comments on gamesTM Reviews Afterburner Climax

I love gamesTM, but one thing that annoys me about the magazine is the fact that on the front cover they list the game formats that they cover and arcade is included in this. Trouble is it’s not very often they actually cover any thing arcade related. But hopefully the tides are about to »

Namco Station – London

March 1, 2007, 4 Comments on Namco Station – London

  In the first of, hopefully many, reviews of arcades that I get the chance to visit, I checked out the Namco Station in County Hall on the South Bank in London. This quite possibly has to be one of the coolest locations I’ve seen an arcade in, what with it being right next »

AOU 2007

February 16, 2007, No Comments on AOU 2007

As well as Tekken 6 & Silent Hill there are some more pictures I’ve found from the show, hopefully more will filter through as the show continues. “Dragon Quest” and “Answer x Answer” had already been unveiled or spotted on location tests, the other picture below is from, what I presume to be Konami’s new »