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10,000 Stackers sold and rising

10,000 Stackers sold and rising

Shaggy January 3, 2008 0

(Press release via CoinOPToday.com) LAI Games, creators of Redemption and other skill-based coin-op titles has announced that they have manufactured their 10,000th Stacker Instant Redemption game. Instant redemption refers to a redemption title that

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Specular Interactive Update

Specular Interactive Update

Shaggy January 3, 2008 0

I decided to check up on Specular Interactive (who had signed a deal with Raw Thrills for the development of some new arcade titles) and they had an interesting update today. We still have

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Andamiro's Pump It Up NX2 released

Andamiro's Pump It Up NX2 released

Shaggy January 1, 2008 2

Well 2008 is here and what better way to start it than with a new game announcement. It looks like this was actually announced about a week ago but I only found out about

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Happy New Year Everyone

Happy New Year Everyone

Shaggy December 31, 2007 0

As this will probably be the last post here at Arcade Heroes for 2007, now is a good time to wish all of you a Happy New Year. 2007 was pretty good, it certainly

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King of Kong DVD pre-order available

King of Kong DVD pre-order available

Shaggy December 31, 2007 0

I caught that Amazon has now listed a pre-order for the King of Kong Documentary DVD. For those that don’t know, The King of Kong documented some arcade players in their quest for the

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Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week (12/31-1/6): Fast and Furious Drift VS NASCAR

Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week (12/31-1/6): Fast and Furious Drift VS NASCAR

Shaggy December 31, 2007 0

Last week’s Battle: DDR Vs Pump It Up! – DDR won by 1 vote (with 5 votes cast total). This week I figured let’s see how you feel about some newer titles. Racers and

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Industry Vet Jim Wallin passes away

Industry Vet Jim Wallin passes away

Shaggy December 31, 2007 0

[Via CoinOPToday.com] This is some sad news coming from GlobalVR today that one of their employees, Jim Wallin has passed away. He was a true industry vet, beginning his work in the arcade business

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The Krow's Nest Operating 6 Ball Bowling Machines

The Krow's Nest Operating 6 Ball Bowling Machines

SaraAB87 December 29, 2007 12

This is something I have been pondering for some time. There is a local arcade near me called the Krow’s nest, and they are operating 6 of the large, ball bowling machines. This arcade

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Street Fighter 4 gameplay video

Street Fighter 4 gameplay video

Shaggy December 29, 2007 0

Via 1up, from the lucky guys who got to go and play the new SFIV. It’s good to see an arcde game getting such a high profile look at it but that’s probably because

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Alternate Flyer for Primeval Hunt

Alternate Flyer for Primeval Hunt

Shaggy December 28, 2007 0

Sega Amusements Europe’s media page appears to have been updated a few weeks ago but I guess I didn’t pay attention to the addition of Primeval Hunt on the list. I checked the brochure

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Sega's New Primeval Hunt, RaceTV and Virtua Fighter 5 Flyers

Sega's New Primeval Hunt, RaceTV and Virtua Fighter 5 Flyers

Shaggy December 28, 2007 0

This is certainly new, I found a few flyers for Sega’s upcoming arcade titles including Primeval Hunt, RaceTV and the arcade version of Virtua Fighter 5 on a distributor website. In regards to Primeval

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Konami's Jubeat cabinet

Konami's Jubeat cabinet

Shaggy December 26, 2007 0

Some images of the cabinet for Konami’s new bemani title Jubeat are out and it shows that the game is quite unique – in fact it uses a cube display but it is unclear

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