Pop-A-Shot Returns To Arcades With The Pop-A-Shot Elite
When I started selling arcade machines back in 2011, I would often get requests for »
Desert Chase & Cannonball Jam Are Now Available From Blue Motion Games
Previously on Arcade Heroes, we mentioned the arrival of a new company to the industry »
New Theater Model For House Of The Dead Scarlet Dawn From Sega Amusements
In our industry, arcade games don’t always get a shot at being sold for much »
exA-Arcadia Updates: Airgallet EXA Label; Daemon Bride exAgain; More
Time for some more news on exA-Arcadia, as they have just held an “exALive” streaming »
Newsbytes: Arcades at MAGFest 2025, Japan Game Updates, Headlines & More
Welcome back to Newsbytes, the series of posts at Arcade Heroes covering bite-sized pieces of »
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A look back at professional gaming and how it got it's start in arcades
The Kansas City News has posted a fairly long and fascinating article about professional gaming and it deals mostly with Twin Galaxies and how the professional gaming circuit initially got it’s start back in
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New products from Betson includes Big Buck Safari Deluxe
Betson Enterprises has sent us along some information on some new products they are now carrying and from the three games listed, they include Big Buck Safari Deluxe, which we saw as early as
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A look at arcade cabinets by Fun Company
When I was looking at some of the pictures we were sent from IAAPA, I noticed that some of the IT cabinets followed a different design than the ‘official pedestal’ cabinet followed. I liked
Read More »Arc System Works interview (with talk about BlazBlue, Battle Fantasia, Guilty Gear, SFIV and more)
In case you are a junkie for 2D fighters then Gamasutra has got the interview for you. They sat down and talked with four guys at Arc System Works in Japan, Daisuke Ishiwatari (Guilty
Read More »Golden Tee joins the US Navy
Here is some interesting and good news out of Incredible Technologies. They have supplied a Golden Tee 2009 game to the USS John C. Stennis, a Nimitz-class nuclear powered US Navy supercarrier. I’ve know
Read More »ATEI 09 News – Registration changes for Consumer Media
Listen up those of you who are planning on attending ATEI in a couple of weeks. With high interest in the event, the organizers have put a trade-only policy into effect. They also have
Read More »Pre-ATEI buzz – Tekken 6 rumors and BlazBlue tested in Europe
In a build up to ATEI within the next few weeks, Europe has seen a location test of the new fighting game BlazBlue (pictured above), with a big turn-out of players only hampered by
Read More »Stop Fighter 2
Stop motion animation is a real pain in the butt to pull off. I guess that is why so many of these kind of films are done with simple things like Legos. The following
Read More »Atari Joystick Lamp
Keeping on the things for the home, made from joystick vibe, here’s are rather bad ass giant atari joystick lamp. I know it’s strictly not arcade but come on, this one was too cool to
Read More »Console gaming to invade out-of-home venues with the Game Gate machine
We have been following the efforts of those who have been attempting to bring console gaming back into arcades (you might recall that consoles have been used before in arcades to promote a game
Read More »Joystick Coat Hanger
Brought to you buy our friends at Surface Tension is this super smart arcade joystick coat hanger. They will be available for purchase in the near future and you can even choose the colour of
Read More »A look back at JAMMA 1986
GameSetWatch posted a very interesting arcade article today they call “The RePlay Files: A Trip to the 1986 JAMMA Arcade Game Show”. JAMMA is still held in Japan every year, but it’s always cool
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