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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Funspot 9th Annual International Classic Videogame & Pinball Championships
Here is some news regarding a big event that is coming up next week in New Hampshire – the 9th Annual International Classic Game Tournament. While the event primarily focuses on classic coin-op arcades
Read More »Information on Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix 2
Remember the days when wrestling games were popular in arcades? It’s been quite a while since that era came to an end here in the States, but in Japan the genre still has plenty
Read More »Xevious & Rush"N"Attack Hit XBLA This Week
This week’s XBLA offerings are retro games that influenced future titles. Rush ‘n Attack, or Green Beret as it was also known, is an arcade action game that was the precursor to Metal
Read More »A PC Motherboard made just for your JAMMA cab
While I don’t often report on developments that happen in the MAME world, I found this to be very cool. It is a mini-ITX motherboard that includes a JAMMA connector so it can be
Read More »Arcade Crusade – free image hosting for arcade/pinball/gameroom stuff
Here is an interesting website that will allow you to upload pics of your own arcades, pinball machines, or game room to share with the rest of the world and all for free.
Read More »Video: Virtual Fighter 5 Ver. C in action
The following video posted on youtube shows some gameplay straight from the most recent version of Virtua Fighter 5 that is testing in Japan. The battle takes place between Sekaijin (SH) vs Saramingo (SA).
Read More »Video: German Pinball Association 2007 convention
While this event happened back on May 12-13th in Bremen Germany, the video of the event has only been up for less than a day and here it is. Thanks to Scud for the
Read More »Capcom beats projections but arcade division down
Here’s something interesting that was virtually overlooked about the recent news of Capcom’s financial earnings – while sales and operating income went up, few reported that Capcom’s arcade division dropped nearly 18 percent to
Read More »WCCF World Cup 2007 Results
So here they are, the results of the WCCF World Cup via WCCF-World.co.uk which was held over here in the sunny UK. Head over to the site for the group stage results as well. Knockout
Read More »Shoot The Moon from Namco
[via Coin-Op Today] Within our market there is never a shortage of themed redemption titles, but how many of them are actually fun? With ticket-spitting on the rise, Namco went back to the
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