July Trade Shows: Bowl Expo & IAAPA Expo Asia 2025
With July fully underway, it’s time to take a look at a couple more trade »
Bandai Namco’s GoldStorm Pirates Disembarks Into Western Shores
After its initial release in Japan and overseas launch at IAAPA 2024 late last year, »
Newsbytes: Bowl Expo 2025 Preview, Dave & Buster’s Leaderboard, Headlines & More
Welcome once again to Newsbytes, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that goes over »
On Test: Star Wars Death Star Assault, Beatmania IIDX 33 Sparkle Shower, Earthion EXA Label
Though usually light on big announcements or releases, Summer often brings with it a good »
exA-Arcadia Puts Daemon Bride exAGAIN & Jamjam’n Jelly EXALENTE Up For Pre-Order
While Summer often means a slowdown in new arcade game announcements and releases, that hasn’t »
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Xevious & Rush"N"Attack Hit XBLA This Week
This week’s XBLA offerings are retro games that influenced future titles. Rush ‘n Attack, or Green Beret as it was also known, is an arcade action game that was the precursor to Metal
Read More »A PC Motherboard made just for your JAMMA cab
While I don’t often report on developments that happen in the MAME world, I found this to be very cool. It is a mini-ITX motherboard that includes a JAMMA connector so it can be
Read More »Arcade Crusade – free image hosting for arcade/pinball/gameroom stuff
Here is an interesting website that will allow you to upload pics of your own arcades, pinball machines, or game room to share with the rest of the world and all for free.
Read More »Video: Virtual Fighter 5 Ver. C in action
The following video posted on youtube shows some gameplay straight from the most recent version of Virtua Fighter 5 that is testing in Japan. The battle takes place between Sekaijin (SH) vs Saramingo (SA).
Read More »Video: German Pinball Association 2007 convention
While this event happened back on May 12-13th in Bremen Germany, the video of the event has only been up for less than a day and here it is. Thanks to Scud for the
Read More »Capcom beats projections but arcade division down
Here’s something interesting that was virtually overlooked about the recent news of Capcom’s financial earnings – while sales and operating income went up, few reported that Capcom’s arcade division dropped nearly 18 percent to
Read More »WCCF World Cup 2007 Results
So here they are, the results of the WCCF World Cup via WCCF-World.co.uk which was held over here in the sunny UK. Head over to the site for the group stage results as well. Knockout
Read More »Shoot The Moon from Namco
[via Coin-Op Today] Within our market there is never a shortage of themed redemption titles, but how many of them are actually fun? With ticket-spitting on the rise, Namco went back to the
Read More »The second golden age of the arcade
UK newspaper website Telegraph.co.ukrecently wrote about the second golden age of the arcade, i.e. the re-releases of many classic arcade games on XBLA, PS3 and the Wii’s VC. Read on…… Each of Sony,
Read More »Another Cool Home Arcade Cocktail Cabinet
For those of you out there with the urge for that retro arcade experience in your home here’s another ideal option for those of you with the money to buy one. Let’s be honest,
Read More »Namco Museum Remix for Wii
Now some people may see this as an absolute travesty and some may look forward to the new look of these classic remixes. Either way it’s got to be worth checking out, especially
Read More »An Interview With An Arcade Legend
Got a great tip today from The Stinger Report. Gamasutra have recently interviewed the gaming legend Eugene Jarvis. This is the guy who created Defender, Robotron (and accompanying two-joystick control system), NARC, and the
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