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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Arm Spirit by Atlus
Physical games are becoming more and more popular, from games where you kick, punch or poke objects to test your strength. Well now you can test your muscles with of the another manly sport,
Read More »Sega's Summer Open Day
Sega just held their Summer Open day, showing off a number of interesting arcade titles that will mostly see Japanese releases with a few likely headed overseas. Derby Owner’s Club 2008 is looking pretty
Read More »Love, Berry & Loser
[via Kotaku] Winning? Winning is easy. It’s losing that’s hard. Seven thousand little girls entered a SEGA‘s Love and Berry model search, and there were just ten finalists. Contestants performed dances from the game
Read More »Tron and Battlezone CG cabinets by Peter Hirschberg
This has been fairly slow week without a lot of news to post about but don’t worry, we’re still here. I’ll put this post into a ‘time waster’ category but a cool time waster
Read More »High score save kits for your older games
Have an old but good classic arcade cabinet lying around that you wish would save your high score on but can’t as the original hardware didn’t support such a feature? I’ve heard about these
Read More »Chase HQ 2 coming soon (to the States)!
BHM Vending has posted Chase HQ 2 on their site with a listing price of $8000. While they don’t list any other details it’s good to know that it will be headed to the
Read More »King of Fighters Videos Part 4
Or at least I think it’s part four, I am losing track of how many KOFMIA videos I have been posting lately. Fortunately SNK has been generous in putting videos out for our viewing
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review: Crisis Zone by Namco
I apologize about missing this yesterday, I guess I got caught up in the holiday. I thought Transformers was excellent BTW, not a perfect movie but it certainly was worth it. I think before
Read More »Defender Prototype
It’s another slow news day in the arcade world so I thought I would bring up this interesting Defender prototype. One of the things that makes it interesting is the slightly inspired by Star
Read More »Sega developing Super Hang-On 2?
With the recent flurry of motorcycle games hitting the arcade market it is not surprising to learn a rumor that Sega is working on a sequel to their original hit Super Hang-On. This will
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