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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Pinball Club Brazil
Here is something interesting I found – a site for pinball enthusiasts in Brazil. These guys absolutely love pinball and have two clubs, one in Rio De Janeiro and the other in São Paulo.
Read More »Silent Hill Arcade Japanese release date and price
A price and release date for the Japanese version of Silent Hill Arcade in Japan has been unveiled: August 2007 for a price of ¥1,780,000 (roughly 14,675 USD). No new information on a release
Read More »SPoNG's May 2007 arcade report – Motion based and Bemani games
Kevin Williams at SPoNG.com has posted an article discussing the importance of Konami’s Bemani and motion capture (MoCap) games and their effect on the game console industry with the likes of the Nintendo Wii
Read More »Mini Skee Ball
Spotted this little gem over at RetroThing. I have to agree with them, I too love anything that has been miniaturised. I just looks so cute and cool, and for those of us with
Read More »Official KOF MI Reg A site open; also price announced
SNK Playmore has opened up an official website for the upcoming KOF Maximum Impact Reg. A (the full title must be quicker to say in Japanese). It’s mainly in Japanese and there isn’t much
Read More »Donkey Kong wants you to JUMP! MAMEJUMP!
This is the funniest thing I have come across in a while. Donkey Kong sings to Van Halen’s Jump while you see a plethora of arcade games that involve jumping (as well as plenty
Read More »Arcade Card Battlers For The Home?
Kotaku ran a post about about the Dragon Quest Video and brought up a good point about weather or not the technology of the PS3 Eye could be used to support a home version of the Dragon
Read More »KLOV – Gift Shop
While looking at the KLOV website a stumbled across the link to their new gift shop. So now not only can you visit the site for coin-op video game information, you can now support
Read More »Shaggy's Review of the Week – Spelunker
It’s time for the Review of the Week. Yet again we are going to look at something fairly rare, a cave exploration game called Spelunker (1985). Enjoy! —————————————————————————————— Spelunker by Tim Martin Players: 1-2 Introduction
Read More »Dragon Quest Arcade Video
Following up on the recent news on Dragon Quest I have now discovered a video on GameVideos.com. It looks like your standard card battler, with decent graphics. Still waiting to find out when and if
Read More »More games from LightSpace
Thanks to a comment from Kevin on the post about the LightSpace foot-controlled gaming system, here is a video on YouTube that showcases more games that will work on this platform. There is one
Read More »Automated RFID-enabled wristbands for the arcade
Hot on the tails of our news a little over a week ago that vendors are looking into alternate payment methods for the amusement industry comes this announcement of a partnership between Precision Dynamics
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