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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Pixelbox – Fantastic Micro MAME Cabinet by Vance Fry
This settles it, I am going to do the conversion on the Space Invaders Mini Cabinet. Vance Fry has done some amazing work building a micro sized cabinet from scratch using Sanwa arcade
Read More »IKEA Game Art
Over at Kotaku, they have game art created by an IKEA employee in West Covina, California using IKEA’s Perler Beads and Pegboards. They are from the Super Mario Bros. series of games, which are
Read More »Stern Spider-Man Pinball Pre-Production Images
PinballSales.com has posted the first shots of the cabinet, playfield, and various playfield toys for Stern’s next pinball, Steve Ritchie’s Spider-Man. Steve Ritchie is the designer of many pinball favorites including High Speed and
Read More »Sweet Arcade Cardboard Cabs
Can’t believe I missed this, but at least I can make one just for the fun of it. Now what design do I go for? A classic arcade game or something random like some
Read More »Raw Thrills’ Drift Released In Europe By Brent Sales/Namco
For our European readers, this may be of interest as Raw Thrills releases its answer to EA’s Need For Speed: “The hotly anticipated sequel to Raw Thrills’ AAA video driver, The Fast and the
Read More »More Silver Strike Bowling Contests
As an addition to Twisted Supreme’s post yesterday about the guy who won a new Harley for playing Silver Strike Bowling, the Silver Strike Bowling website lists the winners for each weekly and monthly
Read More »Paradise Lost Officially Released
“GLOBAL VR® today announced that it is beginning to ship production units of the highly anticipated “super-shooter,” Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost is inspired by Ubisoft’s hit game Far Cry Instincts®. Providing a completely new
Read More »Dragon's Lair Could Be Headed To The Big Screen
You may recall Dragon’s Lairgetting a re-release on Blu-Raynot too long ago. Well now it seems that creator, Don Bluth, is hoping to realize his work on the big screen. IGN Movies says
Read More »Centipede & Millipede hit XBLA this Wednesday
For the last two weeks in a row, Microsoft has put out two Xbox Live Arcade titles each Wednesday. This week, however, they’re changing it up by giving is three titles! Well, two and
Read More »Mini Arcade Cabinet Madness
Just look at this baby! A really great friend brought back this very cool mini arcade cabinet from Japan. It is actually an enclosure for a Playstation controller which I think was released for the Space Invaders Anniversary but the
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