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 »
JET Games USA Launches Giga Shot, Cyber Punch & More
Now that we’re a few months removed from IAAPA 2025, it’s normal that many of »
UNIS Releases Turbo Nova & Jump Master
UNIS is keeping busy with some new arcade games, giving us a little bit of »
Wahlap Scores Top Honors While Launching Storm Racer 2 Worldwide
Today we have a sponsored post & press release from Wahlap, a continued advertiser here »
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Headed to CAX 2009? Let us know!
One major arcade event I would love to attend one day is California Extreme (or CAX for short). I probably say this every year that we post about it, but I figure I should
Read More »Alleged Ultracade counterfeiters indicted
While piracy in the arcade sector is not as common as it used to be, it still occurs here and there. In the most recent case, the man who created the Ultracade setup is
Read More »More details on Taito’s new FPS Cyber Diver
Most of the news this week seems to be revolving around Japanese releases but that’s OK – even if you don’t live in Japan some of these games could make their way to a
Read More »Stern says: "We're never quitting"
(Photo via the Chicago Tribune) After news came out that Stern Pinball had to layoff a few people, I began hearing rumors about the imminent closure of the company. Some felt that with a
Read More »Interesting new shmup now location testing in Japan – Exception
A new and interesting shmup is now on location test in Japan and seeing efforts like this makes me long for seeing some good shmups in arcades outside of Japan again. Called Exception, this
Read More »Another location test for Konami's Mocap Sports
(thanks to Aaron Auzins for the info and translation) Konami’s Wii Sports look-a-like, Mocap Sports is on location test in Japan once again and with it we get just an extra detail or two
Read More »Another look at why beach arcades are awesome
One additional indicator that summer is in full swing in the northern hemisphere (in case you didn’t know already) are the number of articles highlighting beach arcades. I posted about one recently and here
Read More »DDR X at Japan Expo 2009 in Paris
In case you were wondering what players would think of the new DDR X in Europe, then the recent appearance of the title at the Japan Expo 2009 in Paris France should answer that
Read More »Take a virtual tour of Michael Jackson's private arcade
Remember all of those awesome arcade games Michael Jackson owned that were in excellent condition and a few months back were going to be put up on the auction block? Now you can see
Read More »The unofficial Nintendo DS arcade cabinet
There are a lot of cool things you can do with arcade cabinet mods but I have to admit that the idea of hacking apart a Nintendo DS so that an arcade cabinet could
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