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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Article: What’s Happening With Western Arcades – My Thoughts
Through the day I’ve been following a popular article that was published by Ars Technica, “Whatever Happened To the American Arcade?“. I was contemplating commenting on it and Kevin Williams then sent me the
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“The Arcade You Remember” In The Works For Raleigh, NC
Another arcade location is in the works, one that will be setup as a working museum, along the lines of a few other retro arcade museums we’ve reported on somewhat recently. This one is
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eBay Pick of the Week: Awesome custom made Dracula Pinball machine
Picking something arcade/pinball related from eBay this week has been made easy thanks to this custom made Bram Stoker’s Dracula pinball machine. This uses a real casket to house the playfield, along with a
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Sega Card Gen MLB 2012 Footage + Sega Bass Fishing of the Dead
Here are two videos, one real, the other fake for April Fools Day, both done by different divisions of Sega. Here is some location test footage of Sega’s upcoming Sega Card Gen MLB
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Firefly: The Arcade Game Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Short-Lived TV Show UPDATE
We have unveiled many firsts on brand-new games coming to the arcade industry – H2Overdrive, Justice League: Heroes United, Sega Rally 3, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Arcade, Terminator Salvation, and many others. So
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Wizard of Oz Pinball Playfield Art
It’s been a long time coming but here is the playfield artwork for Jersey Jack Pinball’s Wizard of Oz Pinball machine. According to the artist Greg Freres, who has been working on this since
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Pinball Update: P3 Pinball System and Captain Nemo
It’s been a long time coming but finally we are starting to see more innovations coming about with pinball. It’s something I’ve harped on for years now, here on the blog and in Replay
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Videos of Real Steel and a few other Amusement Expo 2012 follow-ups
It looks like post-Amusement Expo discussion isn’t over quite yet. We’ve discussed it a few times but so far we’ve not seen the game in action – Play Mechanix/ICE’s new Real Steel Videmption game.
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News from Japan: Konami’s Jubeat Saucer, More Gunslinger Stratos
Let’s cast our eyes over to Japan for some news, as there are a few developments going on there. First off, Konami has a new entry location testing there starting tomorrow called Jubeat Saucer(not-so-much-better
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Following up on Midwest Gaming Classic 2012
Midwest Gaming Classic 2012 has come and gone and if you couldn’t make it, then here are a number of Youtube videos from the event that allow us the vicarious experience for the show.
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For the Weekend: Taito Gamestation Video, eBay Pick of The Week
Rarely is there any news coming at us on a weekend so some general arcade interest stuff should suffice for us. First here’s a video taken recently at a new Taito Gamestation that opened
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Get Inside Dragon’s Lair
Every arcade game has a story behind its release or the effects of its release years down the road but for the most part, those stories have only been told in brief interviews or
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