New Games Available Now: Perfect Pour Pabst Blue Ribbon Edition (DSM Arcade); Dragon Kingdom (Ace/ASI), More From TouchMagix
Arcade news has mostly slowed to a crawl post-Pokémon pinball reveal, with numerous stories developing »
Newsbytes: Atari PONG Arcade Table Is Back; Pop’n Music US; Sonic The Hedgehog Arcade1Up, More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized »
Gotta Catch ‘Em All? Stern Pinball Officially Unveils Pokémon
The internet went all ablaze last week when Stern Pinball finally teased that their next »
JET Games USA Launches Giga Shot, Cyber Punch & More
Now that we’re a few months removed from IAAPA 2025, it’s normal that many of »
UNIS Releases Turbo Nova & Jump Master
UNIS is keeping busy with some new arcade games, giving us a little bit of »
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Newsbytes: Indie Arcade Updates (Exa, Step Revolution); Arcade Backpack; Pac-Man Minecraft & More
Welcome Newsbytes, a semi-regular curation of arcade & pinball news content from around the world. Normally these are done just on weekends, although with the slowdown in amusement news as of late, I’ve had
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Raw Thrills Moves 2020 Big Buck World Championship To October
There are many amusement-related anniversaries being celebrated this year, but Pac-Man & Sega aren’t the only ones marking important dates. Another game that is reaching a milestone is Big Buck Hunter by Play Mechanix
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June 3rd, 2020 – Sega Marks 60 Years Of Gaming
60 years ago today, Sega was officially formed by a trio of partners looking to supply amusement needs to other businesses in Japan. “The rest is history” as they say, and to celebrate the
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Tecnoplay Details Race Craft EVO Update
To start off June, we have some news on another arcade racer software update: Tecnoplay’s Race Craft. This is a racing game released to the European market last year, and has been detailed on the
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Cruis’n Blast Gets An Update With New Car Changes
While in the process of writing up a review on Cruis’n Blast, I was poking around the Raw Thrills website and discovered that the game had received a new software update back in February
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Cowabunga Dudes: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Stern Pinball
It seems that almost every pinball release is “the worst kept secret” up until the final reveal, with the latest talk of Stern’s next game as being Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now the rumors
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Newsbytes: Golden Tee Go; Insert Coin Review; Pac-Man Book; Elite Basketball & More
Welcome to this edition of Newsbytes, a quick collection of arcade news from around the world to share with you. There hasn’t been a lot to share lately, thus I haven’t done a Newsbytes
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Canceled But Not Forgotten – Star Trek Battleground by Raw Thrills
Not every game that we discuss on the blog boldly goes into production, and such is the case with a videmption arcade piece developed by Raw Thrills that we talked about last year by
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Over-The-Hill – Pac-Man Turns 40 Today
Back during the “Console Wars” of the ’80s & ’90s, big game consoles were known for their “mascots,” a game with a protagonist that served as the face of a particular console and brand.
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Pandemic Shutdown Updates: The Slow Act Of Re-Opening
It’s been a little bit since we had an update on the happenings within the industry since the pandemic made chaos a daily part of life, so let’s get you up to speed on
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