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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2nd edition of Arcade & Pinball World Records book now available
Twin Galaxies has announced the 2nd edition of their book entitled ‘Twin Galaxies’ Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records’. It covers Arcades and Pinball machines only (which of course are totally
Read More »The King of Kong released today
The documentary about two arcade champions is being released in theaters today, although it appears that it will be hitting theaters in a slow wave instead of a braod release. According to the listing
Read More »Death of the arcade being greatly exaggerated by mainstream game journalists
[Via Gametrailers via Arcade Renaissance] I caught this at Arcade Renaissance and I’m glad I did. Anytime we can debunk falsehoods that come from the mainstream gaming journalism world I’m happy to line up.
Read More »Initial D4 Websites
While checking up on the Sega Amusements (US) website I noticed a banner for their new racer Initial D4 that states “Click here to see what all of the HYPE is about!”. I
Read More »Pics from this years California Extreme event!
(Photos Courtesy of Ataricade (www.ataricade.com)) The California Extreme(CAX) event has come and gone but with it are a ton of pics! Here we are reposting many pictures taken by user Ataricade (who runs an
Read More »AAMA Gala Picture Gallery
While the public didn’t hear much news or fanfare about the AAMA Gala that was held last week, there was news to be made from the event. First our close associates The Stinger Report(Aug
Read More »DDR Supernova 2 Website open
[Via Arcade Renaissance] Konami is gearing up for the next (10th) installment of DDR in both Japan and overseas and to prove it, the official website is now open. At the moment there
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review – The Crystal of Kings
I almost didn’t get around to writing this as I had a little health trouble this week and ended up in the hospital for part of a night. It wasn’t anything terribly serious but
Read More »Cardboard MiniArcades for your PSP
[Thanks to Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report] If you own a PSP and have wanted to turn it into an arcade cabinet, then here is your chance, I suppose. “SUCK UK” has
Read More »New Press Start Arcade Location Videos
For those you out there that like to see arcades from around the world, here’s two new videos from PressStartComic of two more arcade locations. 8 on the Break Flashbacks at Seaside Heights NJ
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