The Arcade Anniversaries of 2025
With a new year upon us, you are likely to come across an anniversary or »
EAG Expo 2025 Preview
The first major amusement-focused trade show of this year is now just around the corner, »
Newsbytes Rhythm Game Special: Maimai DX Testing In Chicago, Bubble Bobble In Music Diver, Headlines & Much More
Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts at Arcade Heroes that covers everything happening in »
Arcade Prototype Discovered: Dropzone Arcade
It has been quite a long time since we last reported on a new arcade »
Stern Pinball Unveils Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye
It’s the first week of January, which aside from it being a new year, means »
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Mario Kart Arcade 3 Coming Later This Year
For fans of the Mario Kart series, these are good times. A new iteration of the game shows up for every console they make, with one coming to the WiiU later this year. But
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New Arcade Open Tomorrow In Houston, TX: The Game Preserve
Through 2012 we saw an uptick in stories about classic arcades opening their doors around the US and judging by the news today, 2013 is starting off on a similar foot. If you are
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Arcade Exchange, A Facebook Community for Buying/Selling the Classics
When it comes to arcade collecting there are many resources one can use to hopefully find that one game (or games) that you are looking for. eBay and Craigslist would be well-known among those
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Flashbacks: The 90s Arcade Racer; “Arcade” Movie Trailer
Newsfeed 1286 via As we wait for more news to come along from EAG 2013, we may as well cover some arcade-related things, a couple of which have been sent to us by The
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EAG Expo 2013 First Look – Dead Heat Riders, Sega Booth, Electrocoin, UNIS
Today the EAG Expo 2013 took place and with it, some new stuff. AH writer HeavyElectricity (Nick Thorpe) was there to check everything out and he will be providing a larger and more detailed
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Book Review: Atari Inc. Business Is Fun
Well here is a rarity for us, a book review. It’s not that there aren’t any books about arcades out there, just that I have not got my hands on one until recently. The
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Press Releases: Dark Escape 4D, Dream Raiders, UNIS USA
Here are some quick updates on the latest arcade titles to reach the market, thanks to some press releases that have been making their way out into the inter-ether lately. First off is Namco’s
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Editorial: No Everyone Doesn’t Agree On The Death Of The Arcade
It’s been a while since we’ve seen an article that directly looks into what they call the “death” of arcades but there is a pretty popular article that was published on The Verge today
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Pins And Needles, A Pinball Museum In The Heart Of LA
Newsfeed 1285 via Here is a location opening that we should have heard about when it happened around the end of May/beginning of June last year, but as it sometimes happens those announcements go
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Japanese Trailer for Namco’s New Bhutto Burst Kid Game
Some months ago Namco Bandai showed off some pictures of a new concept in what’s known as “kid vending” type games, something that are popular in Japan but not so much here out West.
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Weekend Reads: Pokemon Game, Music video, Light-Gun Game Ban, DNA Seminar
UPDATE: Rebuttal piece to The Boston Globe on the violent arcade games issue added below It’s been a really slow news week but overall its seemed slow in other areas too, at my own
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Stern Pinball Makes An Appearance At CES 2013
[Thanks to for the tip] When I hear of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, I think of the line from TRON: “If you’ve seen one consumer electronics show, you’ve seen them all”. I am
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