February Trade Shows: NJAA Expo (New Jersey); FEExpo (Italy); DEAL (Dubai)
Though the main arcade trade shows of the first quarter of the year happen with »
LAI Games Begins Shipping Phantom Vanguard In North America
Another arcade exclusive is now available in North America, as Gameloft/IGS/Wahlap’s Phantom Vanguard is now »
New Games Available Now: Perfect Pour Pabst Blue Ribbon Edition (DSM Arcade); Dragon Kingdom (Ace/ASI), More From TouchMagix
Arcade news has mostly slowed to a crawl post-Pokémon pinball reveal, with numerous stories developing »
Newsbytes: Atari PONG Arcade Table Is Back; Pop’n Music US; Sonic The Hedgehog Arcade1Up, More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized »
Gotta Catch ‘Em All? Stern Pinball Officially Unveils Pokémon
The internet went all ablaze last week when Stern Pinball finally teased that their next »
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Game releases for this week: Twisted, BBH: Open Season, GT2010 and in Japan, Tank! Tank! Tank! (updated)
UPDATE: I forgot to add Golden Tee 2010 which was also released this week It’s been a little while since I did a “releases this week” post since news has been a little slow
Read More »More details on Namco's new pirate-themed light-gun game "Dead Storm Pirates"
UPDATE: Thanks to Aaron Auzins for the correct translation of the game’s name. I knew pirates was at the end of that but wasn’t sure about the rest so it’s good to have a
Read More »VecArcade – Vectrex in an arcade cabinet
One of the overlooked reasons for the “Great Game Crash” back in 1983 or so was the fact that you didn’t have three consoles competing with each other – you had several (up to
Read More »Some links to end the day on, mostly regarding facility news
I have a bit of catching up to do so I am going to consolidate a couple of links that were sent to me by Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report into one post,
Read More »Arcade Heroes Podcast #8 – Discussion and new details on Dark Presence +more w/ Aaron Auzins
Here is the next podcast and joining me this week was AH contributor Aaron Auzins. Aaron had the opportunity to visit a few arcade related sites in Chicago in August and in addition to
Read More »SFIV update teaser website; called SFIV New Warrior
Capcom has launched a site which teases us with the new SFIV update and while details are scarce right now (like it was when the game was originally teased) we at least know what
Read More »A developers diary on the canceled American Idol coin-op game
It’s been about a year now but last October, we received a tip about an American Idol coin-op game that was being brought to market by Raw Thrills’. Not long after that, the game
Read More »Videos from JAMMA including Shining Force Cross,KOF Sky Stage, Giant Tetris, taito's table flipping game and more
Who wants just still photos of an event when you can have videos? Sega’s Shining Force Cross. This is less like Gauntlet than I imagined it might be but it’s still cool. I really
Read More »Sega Racing Classic the new Daytona?
Via Sega Nerds By looking at this artwork, it certainly appears that way – unless this is a fake of course, which I am trying to verify. If you listened to our last podcast,
Read More »Blazblue gets an update with Continuum Shift (updated)
There is another HD fighter out there that is turning heads in arcades and it’s not SFIV but the Guilty Gear-like BlazBlue. Personally I have not played BlazBlue yet although I have had a
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