Japan Arcade Updates: Resident Evil 2/Biohazard RE:2 Arcade; Cotton Rock With You; StarHorse Party
While we wait for Amusement Expo 2026 to get going in Las Vegas, there have »
February Trade Shows: NJAA Expo (New Jersey); FEExpo (Italy); DEAL (Dubai)
Though the main arcade trade shows of the first quarter of the year happen with »
LAI Games Begins Shipping Phantom Vanguard In North America
Another arcade exclusive is now available in North America, as Gameloft/IGS/Wahlap’s Phantom Vanguard is now »
New Games Available Now: Perfect Pour Pabst Blue Ribbon Edition (DSM Arcade); Dragon Kingdom (Ace/ASI), More From TouchMagix
Arcade news has mostly slowed to a crawl post-Pokémon pinball reveal, with numerous stories developing »
Newsbytes: Atari PONG Arcade Table Is Back; Pop’n Music US; Sonic The Hedgehog Arcade1Up, More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized »
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Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week (12/31-1/6): Fast and Furious Drift VS NASCAR
Last week’s Battle: DDR Vs Pump It Up! – DDR won by 1 vote (with 5 votes cast total). This week I figured let’s see how you feel about some newer titles. Racers and
Read More »Industry Vet Jim Wallin passes away
[Via CoinOPToday.com] This is some sad news coming from GlobalVR today that one of their employees, Jim Wallin has passed away. He was a true industry vet, beginning his work in the arcade business
Read More »The Krow's Nest Operating 6 Ball Bowling Machines
This is something I have been pondering for some time. There is a local arcade near me called the Krow’s nest, and they are operating 6 of the large, ball bowling machines. This arcade
Read More »Street Fighter 4 gameplay video
Via 1up, from the lucky guys who got to go and play the new SFIV. It’s good to see an arcde game getting such a high profile look at it but that’s probably because
Read More »Alternate Flyer for Primeval Hunt
Sega Amusements Europe’s media page appears to have been updated a few weeks ago but I guess I didn’t pay attention to the addition of Primeval Hunt on the list. I checked the brochure
Read More »Sega's New Primeval Hunt, RaceTV and Virtua Fighter 5 Flyers
This is certainly new, I found a few flyers for Sega’s upcoming arcade titles including Primeval Hunt, RaceTV and the arcade version of Virtua Fighter 5 on a distributor website. In regards to Primeval
Read More »Konami's Jubeat cabinet
Some images of the cabinet for Konami’s new bemani title Jubeat are out and it shows that the game is quite unique – in fact it uses a cube display but it is unclear
Read More »Pirate Revenge – another new title from IGS
[Via Insert Credit] (Click on the image to enlarge) Pirate Revenge is an arcade/redemption title by IGS (also known as American Alpha) that appears to be a new title from the aforementioned company although
Read More »Merry Christmas (again)
I just wanted to hop on an wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. While the timestamp will say this was posted on Dec. 26th, in my timezone it’s still the 25th,
Read More »Battle of the Week – DDR vs. Pump It Up
Thanks to all those that participated in last weeks battle. The winner was Tokyo Wars, which won by one vote. Time for a new battle, this week: Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution Vs. Andamiro’s Pump
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