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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Be "the Pac-Man" with the Pac-Man Plush Head
Do you love Pac-Man so much that you will make your own costumes or items to appear like the world’s most famous yellow eating machine? Well now you don’t have to – simply buy
Read More »Capcom's new 2D fighter Basara X website update
The website for Cacpom’s upcoming arcade fighter (which remember, is NOT Street Fighter 4) Basara X (from my understanding, this is based on the Devil Kings series, if I am wrong please correct me)
Read More »The Stinger Report – UK Distributors at Open-Day Meetings
The latest Stinger Report covers the gatherings of UK amusement distributors at recent events such as the Park Avenue Open-Day and BAR.07, both held in London. A number of popular games were available, including
Read More »Virtua Fighter 5 Video @ The Trocadero
Here is the first of the two videos I took at the Trocadero this week. First up I have Virtua Fighter 5, apologies for the lack of sound, it didnt come out well. So instead
Read More »Initial D 4 & Virtua Fighter 5 @ The Trocadero
I was pleasantly surprised on my visit to the Trocadero this week, when I came across two new Sega games. So for your viewing pleasure, I took some pictures for you all to have a
Read More »HardCore Gamer Vol. 3 Issue 2 out, arcade preview The Act
Hardcore Gamer 26 is out and this month I cover the upcoming and innovative arcade title The Act. If you’re interested in other things than arcade games, they have plenty of that too. 😛
Read More »Lineup for The California Extreme Film Festival
We have discussed The California Extreme arcade event previously (August 11th-13th) and it continues to shape up to be one unforgettable event with the announcement of the films that are going to be shown.
Read More »America's Army in September, NASCAR in August, pricing on both
I’m back from my brief hiatus, I went camping over the weekend so that is why I was out for a few days. I had a good conversation with my local distributor today
Read More »iPhone Spotted In Arcade Crane
Hope the glass in that crane is super reinforced! [via JOEyGADGET] [Discuss on the Forum] “A friend visiting the boardwalk at Point Pleasant, NJ this weekend snapped shots of two arcade claw crane grabber machines
Read More »UK:R's Take On Sega's 2007 ATEi Stand
Old news, but I highly recommend you check UK:Resistance’s take on Sega’s 2007 ATEi, highly amusing. Just scroll down a few posts to check it out. [Discuss on the Forum
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