April Trade Shows: GTI Southeast Asia (Malaysia); ARE (UK); TAGE Expo (Taiwan)
In the recent past, April hasn’t always been home to many (if any) amusement trade »
SNK Announces The King Of Fighters ’98 Is Returning To Arcades Via exA-Arcadia
SNK has been busy as of late, announcing a new Metal Slug and the AES+ »
Sega Tests New Sonic The Hedgehog Coin Pusher “Sonic Balloon Carnival” With Round1USA
This year marks the 35th birthday of Sonic the Hedgehog, with Sega just beginning to »
Incredible Technologies Aims For A 300 With Silver Strike: League Night
Sixteen years since they released Silver Strike Live, Incredible Technologies has followed up with their »
Newsbytes: Stranger Things Arcade Hits Dave & Buster’s, StepManiaX In Japan, Wild Gunman Restored & More
Welcome to another edition of Newsbytes, the series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that »
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Report from 45th JAMMA show – Arcade industry booming
I feel bad that we haven’t been able to post much on the 45th Amusement Show – I’ve been sidetracked by work lately and with that and working on my arcade, it’s been busy.
Read More »New Barcade Reviews – America's Army & ID4
I have just spotted over at Barcade that there are two new reviews up for the following two games, head over there now to get the full rundown on Globar VR’s and Sega’s latest
Read More »45th AM Info Extravaganza!
A massive thanks has to go out to Arcade Renaissance for there extensive the 45th AM coverage. Check out the video’s below and to see more why not head of to Arcade Renaissance to see the crazy Japanese
Read More »Ghost Squad (Wii) Japanese Trailer
After watching this video it looks as though Ghost Squad for the Wii is exactly the same as the arcade version, the only new addition is some 4 player Point Blank style target shooting
Read More »Slikstiks, illuminated joysticks
While browsing the internet I came across something that I forgot about from a few years ago – SlikStik Illuminated Joysticks. It looks like the company behind these mostly specializes in control panels for
Read More »Japan Still Beetle Crazy
Mushiking never really took off over here, but it’s good to see it’s still going strong crazy back in it’s home land. [via Joystiq] “Gotta catch ’em all” has taken on a new meaning
Read More »Signature Devices Signs announces completion of new coin-op title, no details given
Well that was quick. On July 31st we ran a press release about a company called Signature Devices signing on with GlobalVR to produce a new arcade title. No details were given about the
Read More »Small Town Politics: Coin-op Arcade Wins Fight to Open
[via Game Politics] This is more like it, power to the arcades. Although I am slightly annoyed at the people protesting it’s opening, it’s not like they were trying to open up a 24
Read More »Arcade Style ID Bracelets
Now these are great, but I’d have to buy three. I don’t know why but I’ve always rotated between 3 different sets initials, don’t ask why. [via Gearfuse] “Those of you who remember patrolling
Read More »Former Donkey Kong Champ Chats With Twin Galaxies
How these guys have the patience to keep going for these impossible high score is beyond me, although I can appreciate how you can get hooked. The one that has got me at
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