Newsbytes: Arcades at MAGFest 2025, Japan Game Updates, Headlines & More
Welcome back to Newsbytes, the series of posts at Arcade Heroes covering bite-sized pieces of »
Bandai Namco Reveals Wangan Midnight Speed Ignition
For several years now, one of the most heavily-rumored arcade games out there has been »
Sega’s Maimai DX Is Headed To Amusement Expo 2025
Thanks to everyone who sent this in! It’s now February, which means that we’re a »
Location Watch Japan Special: A Look At Aeon Mall Arcades (Molly Fantasy, Feedy Diner & Arcade)
Welcome to a different kind of Location Watch from what Arcade Heroes has done previously! »
Bandai Namco To Test New Arcade Music Game “Penda Beats” In Japan
A few weeks ago, mention was made in a Newsbytes of a mysterious new Bandai »
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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
Read More »CP Pinball – keeping pinball alive in St. Louis
While finding arcades in some areas might be difficult for some (depending on your location), try finding an arcade dedicated more to pinball than video games. Now that’s an arduous task. I know of
Read More »Before Rock Band there was DrumMania/Percussion Master
Rock Band is the latest music instrument playing game available for consoles right now and personally I have played it and enjoyed it as it is a great game. I received my latest copy
Read More »Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week: T-MEK vs. Tokyo Wars
Hello all and welcome to the Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week! This is a new idea I just had and I think it would be fun to pit two arcade games against each
Read More »Update on my arcade
It’s been a little while since I posted about my arcade progress. For those that aren’t aware, I am working on opening up my very own arcade place. It has been an arduous journey
Read More »Black Spiderman pinball machine released
Stern Pinball issued a press release yesterday stating that the Black Spiderman pinball machine (that we first reported about in October) is now available in limited quantities. When they say limited, they really mean
Read More »Pixel Party – Art for the game room or personal wear
I’m always interested in finding something to spruce up the game room or arcade. These pieces of art from Pixel Party at Etsy.com seem to do the job, especially if you hold any affection
Read More »What Have We Been Playing This Week……
Sara -Spectrobes (DS) -Puzzle Quest (DS) -Lifesigns (DS) Shaggy -Tetris (Arcade) -King of Fighters 98 (Arcade) -Adventure 2 (Atari 5200) -The Orange Box: Half-Life 2 (Xbox 360) -Asteroids & Deluxe (XBLA) Twisted Supreme -Call
Read More »DreamAuthentics Katana arcade cab
I admit that one not so nice thing about arcade collecting are the size of the cabs – sometimes they just take up so much space especially with some of the MAME cabs out
Read More »Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year
Tomorrow I am off to Australia for Christmas and New Year to visit one of my best mates. So I’ll take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Read More »Incredible Technologies hires more employees, acquires State Street Games
[Via CoinOPToday.com] Golden Tee developer IT (Incredible Technologies) has just hired on 7 new employees for it’s development staff and they also acquired a game developer known as State Street Games (renamed to IT
Read More »The largest MMOG makes it's way to arcades with Audition
When I heard the term ‘largest MMOG on the internet’ I first thought ‘World of Warcraft’ but I also noticed that it didn’t say MMORPG. So no, World of Warcraft is NOT coming to
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