LAI Games Unveils Cyberpunk 2077: Turf Wars For Amusement Expo 2025
Back around IAAPA 2024, RePlay Magazine had printed a mention of a unique new arcade »
UNIS Ships Four: Neon Rush, Dino Storm, Monster Kart & Bigfoot Smash
At IAAPA 2024, UNIS came out in force with several new arcade games, including the »
LAI Games Ships Kaiju Rampage: The World of Monster Eye
February is now officially over, but the shortest month off the year didn’t leave us »
Location Watch February 2025: New Arcades All Around The World
Welcome to Location Watch, an occasional series of posts on Arcade Heroes that focus on »
Raw Thrills Unveils Wizard of Oz Videmption Game For Arcades
While licenses are nothing new in the industry, one that has been extremely popular among »
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Seasons Beatings Fighter Event In Ohio This Weekend + Galloping Ghost Arcade expands
This weekend in Columbus Ohio some fights are going to go down, but of the virtual kind on a number of fighter games. Players from all over the world will gather to compete on
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Toyota Makes World’s Largest UFO Catcher
How big is the craze behind Sega’s UFO Catcher in Japan? Pretty big, in more ways than one. As a part of a family promotion, Toyota created the world’s largest UFO Catcher crane this
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Actual Yahoo! Headline: “Arcades Making A Comeback”
(Thanks to Jarett for the tip!) Well this is a pleasant change – we get to discuss an article on a mainstream media site that paints modern arcades in a positive light and more
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Taito’s Densha De Go! Returns in 2012
(Via AM-Net Blog) Back in 1997, Taito released a coin-op “train simulator” video game called Densha De Go!. That basically translates to “Let’s go by train!”. It was successful enough in Japan to warrant
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Stern Transformers Pinball in action
(Via ArcadeHunters on Twitter) It’s not the best video of Stern’s Transformers pinball being played but it is the first. I don’t have any commentary to add right now since it’s hard to tell
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Steve Jobs’ brief time in the arcade industry
I am sure that by now you have heard the news of Steve Jobs’ passing and with that there have been a number of articles out there covering some part of his personal history.
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Arcade Related Halloween Costumes
Now is probably a good time to get an order in for a Halloween costume if you haven’t done so already. If I ever consider it, it’s usually too late (such as a day
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Konami unveils World Soccer Winning Eleven Arcade Championship 2012
We’ve never had an abundance of soccer/football games in the arcade industry although there have been a few here and there along with a couple of series that give us something new on occasion,
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Another look at Robo Restle as it arrives for a release
So today a new film is making it’s way to theaters called “Real Steel”. I haven’t seen it yet, not sure if I will be seeing it but there are a lot of commercials
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Following up on the Trocadero closure – Where are some of the games now?
The unwelcome news of the Trocadero shutting it’s doors in London earlier this year continues to have repercussions as some other London locations pick up some of the games that used to occupy the
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Phase 2 Launching for Taito’s Darius Burst Another Chronicle EX
We already know that Taito is bringing Darius Burst Another Chronicle to Europe and the US – the game continues to do very well while on test at my location – but one thing
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Changes for Gamewax’s Go Go Grand Prix
(Thanks to Joe for the tip!) You might have thought it never went anywhere but Gamewax‘s unique coin-op slot racing title Go Go Grand Prix has changed hands. It is no longer being carried
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