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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Over 1,700 Arcade Game Manuals
Wow! Now this is a truly amazing resource, thanks to Kotaku for pointing this out. [ASCII by Jason Scott via Waxy.org] [Over 1,700 Arcade Game Manuals] [Discuss on the Forum
Read More »gamesTM Review of Mario Kart Arcade GP 2
Click on the thumbnail to check out gamesTM’s latest arcade review. Always great to see arcades getting a bit of coverage in gaming magazines. [Discuss on the Forum
Read More »Big update at Coinopexpress; Basara X, Silent Hill, Otomedius listed
Coinopexpress has updated their “Coming Soon” section with a number of games, a few of which we hope to see outside of Japan. I might have overlooked Guitar Freaks V4 previously but it is
Read More »Maximum Tune 3, Namco Bandai's first global launch
[Thanks to The Stinger Report] In the gaming world it seems that the best launches are always global ones. Game consoles are starting to perfect the art now and arcade manufacturers seem to be
Read More »5th Arcadia Cup Tournament ends today
[Via Arcade Renaissance] I missed this one last weekend, thanks to The Stinger Report for pointing me to it. The Tougeki Super Battle Opera is opening the festivities for its 5th Arcadia Cup Tournament
Read More »Hacked Initial D4 cards?
[Via The Stinger Report] It never ceases to amaze me the lengths at which some players will go to cheat at games because they aren’t good enough to get anywhere otherwise or they are
Read More »New Crane concept – Robo Crane
[Via Kevin Williams @ The Stinger Report] Toy cranes haven’t changed much over the years but as of late they have been seeing some hard competition from the likes of Stacker titles. In
Read More »What We Are Playing This Week……
I, myself have not really had much of a chance to hit the arcades in recent weeks, so for me it’s been all about the 360 at the moment. Shaggy -Tapper (Arcade) -Sinistar (Arcade)
Read More »Starting my own arcade
This isn’t news as we generally post – just rambling on. I am on my way to getting my arcade business started as yesterday I went up to the State Commerce department and registered
Read More »Beatmania IIDX 15 DJ Troopers location tests
Konami is currently testing it’s aptly named “Beatmania IIDX 15 DJ Troopers” arcade game in Japan. I’ll admit that I am not terribly familiar with the game as I have not had a chance
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