Arcade Prototype Discovered: Dropzone Arcade
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Stern Pinball Unveils Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye
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Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review 2024: Business, New Games, History & More
Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2024. Let’s take a look back at the »
Location Watch December 2024: New Arcades Open For 2025
Welcome to Location Watch, a series here on Arcade Heroes that endeavors to track and »
New On Test From Triotech: VR Drone Invasion / SkyRider Interactive VR
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Defend Earth Arcade Shooter Project
Here is a video of some college students that made their own arcade game! Everything was built from scratch including the game circuit (so no PC hardware) – almost like it was an arcade
Read More »A pinball players wish granted
[Via Barcade.com and Play Meter Magazine] It’s always great to hear stories that come out of wishes granted by the Make-A-Wish foundation. This particular one deals with Ryan (last name not given), a 10
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review – 1942 by Capcom
This week I’m going with a true arcade classic, which also happened to be the first arcade game I purchased for my own collection. Images via KLOV. —————————————————————————————– 1942 by Capcom Players: 1-2 (not
Read More »USB Desktop B-Ball arcade
It’s been a while since I’ve seen any new Redemption arcade basketball games but this seems to fit the bill, even though it’s a bit smaller and there’s no ticket payout. Just plug it
Read More »GameWorks Announces Half Price Holidays
If you live anywhere near a GameWorks entertainment facility then this is good news for you. Gameworks has issued a press release detailing their half-off special for the holidays, where players can go and
Read More »Virtual Racer X simulator
While this doesn’t look like the type of unit that was made for an arcade environment, it certainly would make a nice addition to the game room (if you can afford it) By combining
Read More »An unexpected surprise in Sunday's paper
(Click to enlarge) While I don’t bother getting a newspaper at home (I have the internet so not much of a need) my parents do and when I stopped by their home as I
Read More »Tempest heads to XBLA
(Click to enlarge) As you may already know, I hold a soft spot for anything Atari so when I see some updates of their awesome arcade classics, I find it hard to resist mentioning
Read More »A family in Rapid City, SD opens a NASCAR themed arcade
(Photo credit: Dick Kettlewell of the Rapid City Journal) I came across this new article today detailing the opening of a new arcade in Rapid City South Dakota USA that discusses a family switching
Read More »When your game addiction goes too far
I just caught this story of a single father in Hong Kong who was arrested for child abuse of his 7 year old daughter. How did he abuse his child? By leaving her alone
Read More »Spongebob Squarepants Pinball
It seems that since Ultrapin came around, pinball machines with digital displays is starting to gain a foothold in the industry. I don’t believe that they will ever take the place of a real
Read More »Samurai Spirits Teaser Site
Back in Octoboer we reported about another fighter in the ‘Samurai’ series of games fron SNK that was in testing – it looks like another test is coming up in Japan (or it might
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