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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Holy cow: Sega also doing a giant Tetris game (updated)
From Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report. The top game is Sega’s new Shining Force Cross RPG game. Beneath that – well it speaks for itself. This is obviously not the same thing as
Read More »Another 10th anniversary to remember – the NAOMI
While I missed yesterday’s celebrations around the net for the 10th anniversary of Sega’s Dreamcast console, Kevin Williams sends us a reminder of another 10th Sega-related and Dreamcast-related anniversary – the Sega NAOMI. I
Read More »KOF goes all shmup-y with KOF Sky Stage
KOF fan purists – brace yourselves. Or you might want to skip this post entirely but then again the damage is already done if you even noticed this. For everyone else – talk about
Read More »Aurcade.com gets a revamp
(Thanks to Doc @ Galloping Ghost for the tip) One of the websites that you can use to help find an arcade near you (in the US only, currently), Aurcade.com recently revamped it’s website
Read More »Sega to release Tetris: The Grandmaster 4 The Masters of Round
In the past I have lamented about the fact that we don’t really see puzzle games made for arcades anymore, despite the fact that such titles are a perfect fit for the arcade gaming
Read More »Namco reveals more info on Tank!Tank!Tank! & a new pirate themed light-gun game
With JAMMA fast approaching comes more information on various new arcade titles from the different game companies and today we have a little more information on some new Namco titles. First off Tank!Tank!Tank! (which
Read More »Konami shows off Mocap Sports at private show (updated)
So far we have not seen much on Mocap Sports other than a few static screenshots or 3D models but now thanks to KonamiTV, they have added a brief video onto that site which
Read More »Sega shows off more Heat Up Hockey
When I posted about the innovative Heat Up Hockey game a short time ago, there was one crucial piece of information missing on the game – who was releasing it? We happen to know
Read More »Sega launches Patrol-Chaser & Battle-Police duo in Japan
While we don’t see as many arcade titles that are created just for kids like we used to, there are still a few that are coming out to attract younger audiences. Sega in particular
Read More »What games are best enjoyed in the arcade?
So the headline here is sort of a rhetorical question – we all know what works best in arcades and what doesn’t, but we may as well discuss the subject thanks to this link
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