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 »
Bandai Namco Reveals Wangan Midnight Speed Ignition
For several years now, one of the most heavily-rumored arcade games out there has been »
Sega’s Maimai DX Is Headed To Amusement Expo 2025
Thanks to everyone who sent this in! It’s now February, which means that we’re a »
Location Watch Japan Special: A Look At Aeon Mall Arcades (Molly Fantasy, Feedy Diner & Arcade)
Welcome to a different kind of Location Watch from what Arcade Heroes has done previously! »
Bandai Namco To Test New Arcade Music Game “Penda Beats” In Japan
A few weeks ago, mention was made in a Newsbytes of a mysterious new Bandai »
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Starting an arcade of your own (Part 1)
While I have been working on getting my own arcade started I have dealt with the problem where it is difficult to come by useful information on arcade business statistics. I know that many
Read More »"House Rules" carved in wood by Melissa Jones
A couple of weeks ago we had a post about the amazing wood work done by Melissa Jones where she was creating pieces of arcade character art in wood. Her latest project is taking
Read More »Brief 'my arcade' update and a new arcade blog
It’s time for a brief update on my arcade and I hate to say that almost nothing has happened since my last post. It’s really infuriated me – I was told to expect signing
Read More »Upcoming game from Namco – AFREC!
[Via Oga in Japan] While Namco had hinted at some interesting developments going on for their arcade division, they didn’t specify what it was that they were working on and honestly I didn’t expect
Read More »Continuing on the violent games debate…
A little while ago I brought up the always fun debate about violent video games in a post briefly discussing some laws that were being looked at by certain local governments in the US
Read More »A look at Eugene Jarvis' work, past and present
In the arcade world it’s hard to miss mega-hits like Defender, Robotron 2048, Smash TV, and Crusin’ USA and while many designers of classic arcade games have moved on to different things, the designer
Read More »Some news from games in Japan
A bit of Japan news here (which as always we must keep in mind that something here may or may not show up outside of Japan although we always hope that it will), first
Read More »Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3 poster for charity
It’s always nice to see something arcade-related to go up for a good charitable cause, in this case a limited edition poster for the Namco racer, Maximum Tune 3 that is signed by the
Read More »The things that collectors do
If you collect arcade games at all then you know that it can be rather difficult to find room for the cabinets at times. If you have a garage the hobby of collecting games
Read More »ASI 2008 News Recap
Just to help you in case you missed/overlooked anything, here is a recap of some of the news to come out of ASI this past week, either at the show or because of the
Read More »Basketball sharpshooter!
I keep watching this over and over and I still think it’s fake. But how do you fake this! I’d like to see this guy play one where the hoop actually moves around! [Discuss
Read More »Home made Lindbergh cabinet
Now this is nice home made cabinet. I’ve always been a fan of the simplicity of Sega’s Lindbergh cabinet, but this guy has gone the whole hog to show his love for it. This
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