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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A Chuck E. Cheese "Entertrainment" video
If you have ever wondered what kind of intense training is required to work at an arcade or similar entertainment facility then here is another video for you (well over two years ago we
Read More »Konami announces a DDR US championship
DDR fans, get ready to compete. Starting tomorrow in Dallas, TX, Konami will begin holding regional competitions at different GameWorks locations around the US, which will eventually lead to a final tournament in December
Read More »"If Jimi were a pinball machine" T-Shirt
While we come across arcade-related T-shirts every now and then that are worth talking about, it’s pretty rare that we see a cool pinball t-shirt. This one comes from TeeFury.com and apparently this is
Read More »Could the future of games follow the jukebox model?
If you constantly follow the happenings of what goes on in the video game industry than looking forward into what gaming will offer in the future is something that is bound to come across
Read More »Rampage and Time Crisis turned into movie trailers
No this doesn’t have anything to do with Joust or Asteroids coming to the silver screen – yet anyways. But thanks to a competition that was recently put on by G4TV and the infamous
Read More »Konami brings back Road Fighter, now labelled as Road Fighters
Thanks to an anonymous tip, we have received some details on a new title that Konami had out on location test in Japan last week called Road Fighters. For anyone who knows their Konami
Read More »New documentary on pinball debuting next week – 'Special When Lit'
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity of reviewing a documentary film about pinball called “Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball”. I enjoyed it, in part because at the time I knew
Read More »Videos of Konami's GuitarFreaks v6 and DrumMania V6 in action
Tis the season for game shows in Japan and while the Tokyo Game Show does not focus primarily upon arcades like JAMMA did, we still get the chance to see some of the journalists
Read More »French player group working to build a classic game museum
With nostalgia for classic games stronger than ever, what better way to satisfy the need to play such games than with a museum built in their honor? In France, a group of gamers are
Read More »Video interview with Fukio "MTJ" Mitsuji
You’ll have to chalk this up to “better late than never” but last year on Dec. 11th 2008 Fukio Mitsuji passed away. He created some very memorable arcade titles at Taito so it’s good
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