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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Coming to an arcade near you – plastic tokens?
A few days ago we reported about the use of e-payment for the coin-op gaming industry. But what if you’re not ready to switch to e-payments just yet but you wish to save money
Read More »Southern California Classic Collector's (SC3) Meeting on 5/12/07
Every time I hear about groups of arcade collectors coming together to play, it’s always far away from where I live. These events are always great fun though, allowing you to get together with
Read More »Ebay Listing Of The Week
Gravitar Released in 1982 by Atari, this game did not do particularly well, mainly because many found the game too hard. The object of the game is to destroy enemy planets to make space
Read More »Stern Issues Spider-Man Press Release
Stern has issued a press release for their upcoming pinball game, Spider-Man. The Press Release also contains new artwork for the game, showing the detailed toys and the decals on the red plastic that
Read More »Ghost Squad Coming To Wii
[via Kotaku @ Sega’s Gamer Day] “The next game they are announcing is Ghost Squad. Ghost Squad will be going exclusive to the Wii. Oh, and it will be playable here today. The game
Read More »Review of the week – Blazing Star for NeoGeo
I’m a little late on this one, but it’s no big deal. I hope you enjoyed last week’s review of Balloon and Balloon. This week I am covering Blazing Star, for the NEO GEO
Read More »BattleGear 4 videos
Hey racing fans, Taito has a page up that shows a bunch of videos from their arcade racing game Battle Gear 4. The page is in Japanese but once you use the Google translator,
Read More »House of the Dead 4 Special with Motion Cabinet
According to Kotaku, Sega has released a special motion cabinet version of House of the Dead 4 into Japanese and European arcades. The cabinet has two 100 inch XGA projector screens, as well as
Read More »Rhythm Tengoku Arcade Game Announced
According to N-sider, Nintendo’s cult-classic GameBoy Advance game from the makers of Wario Ware, Rhythm Tengoku is coming to the arcades courtesy of Sega. The arcade version will feature the same rhythm mini-games of
Read More »London Shows nominated for exhibition 'Oscars' award
Considering how many shows there are at Earls Court each year, let alone across the whole country, it’s pretty impressive that the ATEI has been nominated for this award. I’ve always thought it’s
Read More »GuitarFreaks v3 and Drum Mania v3 Site; also GFv3 location testing
While I am not sure how long this has been up, I have found a Japanese site dedicated to two bemani games, Guitar Freaks v3 and Drum Mania v3. The site is ran by
Read More »Game Of The Week
Computer Space Well this week I decided to take it back, way back, to where it all began. You can’t have a Game of the Week without a mention to the game that started
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