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10,000 Stackers sold and rising
(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
Read More »Specular Interactive Update
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
Read More »Andamiro's Pump It Up NX2 released
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
Read More »Happy New Year Everyone
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
Read More »Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week (12/31-1/6): Fast and Furious Drift VS NASCAR
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
Read More »Industry Vet Jim Wallin passes away
[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
Read More »The Krow's Nest Operating 6 Ball Bowling Machines
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
Read More »Street Fighter 4 gameplay video
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
Read More »Alternate Flyer for Primeval Hunt
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
Read More »Sega's New Primeval Hunt, RaceTV and Virtua Fighter 5 Flyers
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
Read More »Konami's Jubeat cabinet
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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