Bubsy Paws Into Pinball (Updated!)
Atari has been on a retro kick lately, grabbing the rights to all sorts of »
Location Watch March 2026: The Latest Arcade Openings Across The World
Welcome to Location Watch, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that compiles the most »
Amusement Expo 2026: The Full Rundown
Welcome to Arcade Heroes’ full rundown of Amusement Expo 2026. This was the most recent »
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune Ignition Detailed
It has been a long wait for Maximum Tune fans to see the next iteration »
Newsbytes: Resident Evil 2: Arcade On Test In Japan; Texas Pinball Festival; Konami Rhythm Games Come To America; More
Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that runs down “byte-sized” »
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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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IGS Launches PGM3 Hardware
Among fans of unique arcade-specific hardware, some despair over the trend where most game companies these days find it easier and more economical to use PC machine builds tied to some sort of specialized
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