Happy National Arcade Day!
Today, April 8th, has been declared to be National Arcade Day. According to this page, »
Stranger Things Arcade Is Coming Soon Via Raw Thrills
We’re past April Fools Day now (where this year we had a fuzzy bobcat-inspired joke »
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 »
Recent Posts »
Taito’s Gaia Attack 4 testing in the UK
Newsfeed 938 via When Taito demonstrated a new four-player light-gun shooter title at AOU this past February called Gaia Attack 4, there was no indication that it would get an international release, although we
Read More »
IGS introduces Speed Driver 3: Crash Hour
Taiwanese company IGS my not be well-known for their racers but they are working hard at changing that with their Speed Driver series. The game is geared more towards the China/Taiwan market, although it
Read More »
Sega Card Gen MLB finally getting a release in October – only in Japan
When Sega first took the veil off of their unique card-based arcade title Sega Card Gen MLB, it was shown in the US at AMOA09, with a tentative release date for Spring 2010. It
Read More »
DeadStorm Pirates 3D as seen at JAMMA
Newsfeed 935 via We have already mentioned how Namco’s latest light-gun shooter will be getting an update in 3D this next spring and for those fortunate enough to make it to JAMMA a couple
Read More »
More indie games being promoted with arcade cabinets
It seems that the idea of promoting your indie-produced game title (which is generally intended for a PC/XBLA/PSN/WiiWare release) inside of an arcade cabinet is starting to catch steam up to the point of
Read More »
Golden Tee Live 2011 now available
It’s the end of September and that means that Incredible Technologies’ Golden Tee LIVE 2011 beings shipping today. The latest installment adds five new courses onto the many already included from previous GT games,
Read More »
Report: Namco/Brent open day 2010
Tuesday was quite a busy day, to say the least. While I knew that I’d be visiting Sega for a product launch, I was unaware that Namco was also running an open day. Many
Read More »
Pac-Man, Milk and You
Newsfeed 931 via While Namco has been going all out in promoting Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary, most notably with the two arcade titles Pac-Man Battle Royale and Pac-Man’s Arcade Party, it looks like the merchandising
Read More »
A coffee table for pinball fans
Newsfeed 930 via If you have a non-working pinball playfield laying around there are a couple of things you could do with it – salvage it for parts on another pin, sell it to
Read More »
Arcade Legends 3 coming in October
As interest in classic gaming continues to go on strong, that means that there will be a place for multi-game cabinets using licensed software. In the recent past that void has been filled mostly
Read More »
