April Trade Shows: GTI Southeast Asia (Malaysia); ARE (UK); TAGE Expo (Taiwan)
In the recent past, April hasn’t always been home to many (if any) amusement trade »
SNK Announces The King Of Fighters ’98 Is Returning To Arcades Via exA-Arcadia
SNK has been busy as of late, announcing a new Metal Slug and the AES+ »
Sega Tests New Sonic The Hedgehog Coin Pusher “Sonic Balloon Carnival” With Round1USA
This year marks the 35th birthday of Sonic the Hedgehog, with Sega just beginning to »
Incredible Technologies Aims For A 300 With Silver Strike: League Night
Sixteen years since they released Silver Strike Live, Incredible Technologies has followed up with their »
Newsbytes: Stranger Things Arcade Hits Dave & Buster’s, StepManiaX In Japan, Wild Gunman Restored & More
Welcome to another edition of Newsbytes, the series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that »
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Insert Coin 2009 – UK public arcade expo launches!
It’s a great day for arcade gamers in the UK, as the Insert Coin 2009 expo has been announced! The show will run on July 18th and 19th at the Northampton Saints Conference CentreThe
Read More »Exercise-based arcade opens in Rockford, IL
Video games often come under fire from health police for being a sedentary activity, most recently in a UK television advert for a government backed health campaign which caused a bit of controversy. However,
Read More »Tokyo Game Action closes
It’s always sad to see an arcade closing, but this one is particularly heartbreaking. Tokyo Game Action of Wichendon, MA has been forced to shut down with immediate effect, with a liquidation sale to
Read More »Jack Bauer comes to pinball with "24"
The hit show 24 now has a pinball game to compliment the action-packed thriller that features counter-terrorist Jack Bauer in his quest to defend his country from evil doers and we have a cabinet
Read More »Sega prepping new arcade hardware?
It certainly looks that way. The guys at Siliconera caught a set of patent trademarks for something called “Ringedge” and “Ringwide”, which are both listed as having something to so with arcade game boards.
Read More »An ASI preview from Betson with Guitar Hero and DDR:X action
Speaking of arcade shows (see our AOU post below this one), ASI/AMOA is just around the corner as well in Las Vegas come March and distributor Betson has already sent out a release showcasing
Read More »AOU sites for Sega and Konami
ATEI has come and gone and that means that the next big show is AOU in Japan, where Japanese manufacturers show off all of their great products which you may or may not find
Read More »ATEI 2009 – Videos
Apologies for the wait, but here is all the video footage that I managed to get at ATEI last week. Didn’t get every game unfortunately, but hopefully there’s enough here to get you excited! Also,
Read More »Sega releases Harley Davidson and Hummer to the US
The supposedly “dead” arcade industry has two more game releases to add to the list of what’s new in the US as several distributor websites are now listing the games HUMMER and Harley Davidson:
Read More »Big Buck Safari Online tourney for February – Jungle Jam
Play Mechanix just wanted me to pass along the newest online tournament for Big Buck Safari and once again, 20 people have a chance at winning some cash. They also have simplified the process
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