Location Watch August 2025: New Arcade Game Rooms Open Up Around The World
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Bandai Namco Updates: Pac-Man Baller Jr; One Piece Dawn Strike; GoldStorm Pirates
As many of you will know, the folks over at Bandai Namco have got numerous »
MonkeySplash Studios’ Chef it Up Returns With Updates, UK Appearance
Some time ago, we caught wind of a unique new arcade cookery game by the »
UNIS Updates: Godzilla Kaiju Drop; Picture Book Land; Top Speed Legend
As we continue to wait for updates on several other stories, UNIS has blessed us »
Setting Up A Soda Slam! & Missile Command Recharged By Alan-1
Welcome to a post centring around a topic that hasn’t been touched on for some »
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The Adaptation of the Modern Arcade
There is a subject we kick around here on Arcade Heroes every once and a while and that is what is it that modern arcades are aiming to do that is unique in the
Read More »Pinball Post: Predator Pinball; New Pinball Magazine
Time for another pinball update, with two important items. Once again I am taking it shamelessly from Pinballnews.com, who lives up to their motto but I will see if I can add my own
Read More »Finding ReRave
Every modern arcade game should have an online game finder. Now that sounds like an obvious thing to say but it still is not common to find with games these days. Now part of
Read More »Sonic Drive-In Hearts Sega’s Outrun
I heard about this but I don’t watch a lot of live TV so I had not seen it until today when I found it online. For any of our international readers, Sonic is
Read More »Chinatown Fair Re-opens; Sega supports Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Arcade with tournament
Here are two bits of news from opposite sides of the US that I am sure will be of interest to you all, so let’s get to it. It was reported a short time
Read More »Wrapping up Dubai’s DEAL 2012
A couple of weeks ago the annual DEAL (Dubai Entertainment Amusement & Leisure Show) show took place, where at least one new game was unveiled for the international market, Sega’s new K.O. Drive. We
Read More »How To Show Off On House of The Dead 4
Here’s a bonus that arcades will always have over playing games at home – showing off in public is much more exciting then at home. It’s not really showing off when strangers in public
Read More »News: Taito Vewlix controller; MaiMai loctest; Shining Force Cross; Sega Republic Arcade in Dubai
Newsfeeds 1197-1200 via Let’s start May off with various bits of news that you may or may not care about. Most of these are about games in Japan so we will have to take
Read More »Newsbits: Arcade from 1968; Rocky Mountain Expo; Star Castle on the Atari 2600; more Gundam Pilot videos; Retrocade Magazine
Earlier this week the news was quite slow but this latter half has improved a bit, where I have enough to do yet another multi-story post. First off is something I did see a
Read More »Namco to Open New Facility in Japan; tiny Star Wars Arcade playable cabinet; DNA US Conference Moved
Newsfeed 1195 & 1196 via Most of our location opening news comes from out West but the occasional news from the East doesn’t hurt either. Namco has a new facility that is opening tomorrow
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