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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Mario Kart GP 2 available, new features listed
Once again BHM Vending seems to have the leg up on other distributors (or they just happen to update their website more frequently) when it comes to the hot new arcade games that will
Read More »Look out DDR: LightSpace technology can bring other types of foot-controlled games to the arcade
For years Dance Dance Revolution (and similar clones) has reigned supreme in the video game world when it comes to foot-controlled video games. Well move over DDR because here comes LightSpace. Lightspace is an
Read More »Stern Spider-Man Pinball Location Test
Pinball News has a load of new images of Stern’s newest pinball game, Spider-Man, from it’s location test site in the Chicago suburbs. As the game is currently still in development, not all of
Read More »Silent Hill Arcade Location Testing in Japan
We are a day or two late on catching this, but Konami is currently testing their latest incarnation of Silent Hill (simply called Silent Hill Arcade) in Japan as of May 1st and the
Read More »Merit releases Megatouch Force 2007.5; adds 17 new games to their touchscreen systems
Merit Entertainment has released an update for their touchscreen table-top arcade games called Force 2007.5. This is a free update for operators that run these machines and it adds 17 new titles and enhancements
Read More »Could the future of coin-op be e-payment? With Mastercard's help it could be.
One of the primary pinnacles of the coin-op industry has always been the item that gives the industry it’s name – the coin. However with recent developments in the food vending industry and the
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review – Balloon and Balloon
Every Wednesday we’re going to have a review of an arcade game on the site. The age of the game doesn’t matter, anything goes as long as it is arcade related. So check in
Read More »Arcade Gaming, Doggy Style!
Just discovered this picture on the net, don’t know what to say, apart from it’s a dog walking game, or a treadmill if you will. My brain keeps telling me it’s a month late
Read More »Hastings Pier Appeal Rejected
Now here in old blighty there’s one sure fire way to find some arcade action and that is to head to the seaside and find the pier. But sadly it appears another one has dropped
Read More »Polybius – Urban Myth or CIA Plot ?
I had completely forgotten about this old story until a friend reminded me today. As some of you may know this story has been floating around for a very long time. Reputedly back
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