The Great IAAPA Expo 2025 Preview
Welcome to our IAAPA 2025 preview! In these annual posts before the event, we meticulously »
Japan Amusement Expo 2025: The Preview
IAAPA 2025 isn’t the only major arcade event happening this month, with Japan’s Amusement Expo »
Bandai Namco IAAPA 2025 Preview: Speed Rider 4DX; The Future; Mini World; Pac-Man & More
One company that usually unveils their lineups for Western shows pretty close to the wire »
New Games From UNIS For IAAPA 2025: Spin City; Monster Jet Riders; More
Next up on the IAAPA 2025 preview roster is UNIS. I remember first coming across »
Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot/Arcade Goes On Test At Round1USA
Back in July, the surprise story of the Summer broken by us was the quiet »
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Shrek Pinball Prototype
[Via BMI Gaming] Thanks to an update to one arcade distributor’s website, we finally have an idea of what the very limited Shrek Pinball game will look like. This picture is just a prototype
Read More »AOU 2008 ends on a high note and AOU Booth Babes
(Image via Famitsu) AOU 2008 is over now and one thing is certain – there is still plenty of interest in arcades despite the presence of the Nintendo Wii in people’s homes. The lines
Read More »Site News – Temporary Email Change
Have been having some problems with our Google mail account so have reverted back to our Hotmail account for the mean time. So any news, tips or stories please send them to arcadeheroes@hotmail.co.uk. Or
Read More »The Luna City Tour & Interview
A few weeks ago we picked up on a story on Kotaku aboutLuna City, Peter Hirschberg’s private 80’s arcade wonderland. Well now up on You Tube is a interview with the owner himself. Best
Read More »Location Review – Kingpin Bowling Lounge, Sydney
Some of you may remember that I was over in Sydney for Christmas and I mentioned that I visited a few arcades whilst I was out there. Well here is the first of two long
Read More »Pac-Man Coasters
So I have been away for a few days, and have just about caught up with everything that has been going on at the AOU (thanks Shaggy). Pretty cool stuff, I’m still mega excited
Read More »Would you wait 90 minutes in line to play SFIV? (AOU 2008)
Just a friendly reminder from us and The Stinger Report that if scenes like the one above means that the arcade scene is totally dead (even in Japan – my guess is Namco probably
Read More »Silver Strike Bowling Sweepstakes video
I really have to hand it to Incredible Technologies – since not every arcade or bar can be relied on to hold arcade game competitions, they’ve taken it upon themselves to run some great
Read More »AOU 2008 Famitsu report – arcades bringing new innovations to the scene
With the flurry of news coming around with AOU, it’s hard to post about all of them on the current schedule I have (although Arcade Renaissance is doing an excellent job at that) but
Read More »Gameinformer responds to my letter about arcades in latest issue, but changes a few things
So I received the latest issue of GameInformer magazine in the mail today and to my surprise they published an e-mail I sent to them a few months ago in response to an article
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