Jersey Jack Pinball Unleashes The Magic of Harry Potter To Arcades
After months of teasing, the wait is finally over, as Jersey Jack Pinball has launched »
Raw Thrills Launches Godzilla Kaiju Wars VR Ultimate; Top Gun: Maverick
The wait is officially over, as the complete and “ultimate” version of Godzilla Kaiju Wars »
Location Watch May 2025: The Latest Arcade Businesses To Open Their Doors Around The World
Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes »
LAI Games Begins Testing Ubisoft All-Star VR
Much has been said in recent months about arcade virtual reality (and VR in general) »
Newsbytes: PlayX4 In South Korea, Raw Thrills Update, Konami Reshuffles & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that runs through »
Recent Posts »
Shaggy's Weekly Review – Paradise Lost by GlobalVR
Just so everyone knows (in case they were wondering) I decided to give up on the Battle of the Week as interest for it waned but that’s OK, some ideas work others don’t. In
Read More »New acquisition – Crystal Castles
Last night I picked up the 11th game in my collection, Atari’s Crystal Castles and for only $400 it was a good deal that I couldn’t pass up. I found this one on Craigslist
Read More »Retronauts Talk Street Fighter
I am a massive videogame podcast listener and one of my favourites is 1UP’s Retronauts. This week I was pleasantly surprised that thier latest episode was all about the Street Fighter series which I highly recommend.
Read More »Golden Tee Scratch Cards
Not having any luck winning those Golden Tee tournaments, well now you can try your luck at the Golden Tee scratch cards. Read on for the full story… [via Barcade] The Illinois Lottery has
Read More »Big Buck Hunter Pro Contest "Beat The Pro"
Raw Thrills, Play Mechanix and Betson have teamed up to host “Beat The Pro”, a Big Buck Hunter Pro tournament that is travelling across the US, drumming up interest in not only BBHP but
Read More »Australian Pokie Players Spend Over Au$8 bn
Now we don’t normally cover news like this, but I found this particularly interesting as I have just returned from Australia and I was amazed how common the “pokie lounges” are out there. A good
Read More »Atarigames.com updated with some cool arcade prototype info
Atarigames.com is a website dedicated to nothing but Atari arcade games, from all phases of the coin-op division at Atari. The website has been updated and with some very cool information including pictures of
Read More »Taito's D1GP attracts long lines at Tokyo Auto Salon 2008
[Also via AM.NET blog] At the Tokyo Auto Salon 2008 (that was held from January 11th until today) there was an arcade surprise there from Taito – a setup of their new D1GP racer.
Read More »Wacky Races to be at ATEI
While we weren’t sure about it at first, The Stinger Report confirms that Wacky Races will be at ATEI this year at booths U2240 and U2110. And also thanks to TSR we have the
Read More »Rumour: New Resident Evil Arcade?
Could it be that Capcom are going to release another arcade version of thier popular survival horror game? I sure hope so. I have never seen, let alone played, Gun Survivor in an arcade,
Read More »What Have We Been Playing This Week…..
So after a lack of gaming whilst I was in Oz, (apart from some SNES action, because I took my console out with me as my mate was dying for some Mario Kart and
Read More »The Stinger looks at Robotic Amusement devices in ’08 (video included)
One of the more recent Stinger Reports (1/7/08 to be exact and yes I’m a couple of days late) took a look at the exciting application of robots and coin-op amusement. A while back
Read More »