Wahlap’s Storm Racer 2 Now Available In North America
Revealed earlier this year and also seen at IAAPA 2025, we have confirmation that Wahlap’s »
Prototype Uncovered: Atari Games’ JAMMIN
It has been a long while since we had news on a never-released arcade game »
IAAPA 2025 Wrap-Up Part 5: Amusement Source International, Coastal Amusements, Ace
Continuing our coverage of the IAAPA 2025 trade show that took place in Orlando, FL, »
IAAPA 2025 Wrap-Up Part 4: Andamiro USA, Pinball, UNIS
Continuing our coverage of the IAAPA 2025 trade show that took place in Orlando, FL »
Arcade Heroes Celebrates 19 Years Of Covering Arcade News & Fun
It is hard to believe, but as of today, this site is now nineteen years »
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Arcade Extinction Vs Revolution
(I tried to put a picture up but WordPress is having issues yet again and it’s not working) Here is an interesting contrast we find about the arcade scene in it’s current state from
Read More »Poll: Which new arcade Fighter are you most excited for?
I’ve mentioned before that 2008 would shape up to be an interesting year for arcades and so far it certain has become such. With recent game news coming out of AOU we see a
Read More »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
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