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IAAPA Pics by Kevin Williams

November 27, 2009, 3 Comments on IAAPA Pics by Kevin Williams

Now for our second-to-last post about IAAPA 2009 – the last one will be the attempt at a podcast that we did at the show although we were unable to finish it up for reasons I’ll explain later. Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report (also a frequent contributor to Arcade Heroes) was at IAAPA »

More IAAPA 2009 videos – Tetris Giant, Hummer, Twisted (+ NASCAR 2 news) & more

November 22, 2009, 9 Comments on More IAAPA 2009 videos – Tetris Giant, Hummer, Twisted (+ NASCAR 2 news) & more

Here’s some more content from the IAAPA 2009 show. Tetris Giant – We first heard about this interesting new Tetris game a few months ago and while it seemed like the perfect game for Western audiences, I was still a little surprised to see it at Sega’s booth. Where the blocks are pretty large »

Pics from IAAPA 2009 (Part 1)

Pics from IAAPA 2009 (Part 1)

November 20, 2009, 5 Comments on Pics from IAAPA 2009 (Part 1)

Well I’m back from IAAPA 2009 and it was an excellent show, as expected. I had always heard how large it was but you have to see it (and walk it) to believe it. I am going to start off with some picture updates here since that is a bit easier to get up »

IAAPA 2009 preview (updated – w/Cooking Mama arcade and more)

November 17, 2009, 16 Comments on IAAPA 2009 preview (updated – w/Cooking Mama arcade and more)

Tomorrow I head off for Las Vegas to attend the annual amusement industry tradeshow IAAPA. This will be the first time I will have a chance to visit this particular show – I have previously visited other arcade-related shows such as AMOA and ASI but from what I have always heard, IAAPA is much »

New arcade 'Power Play' opens in Bellevue, WA

October 22, 2009, 1 Comment on New arcade 'Power Play' opens in Bellevue, WA

If you live in the Bellevue area you have a new arcade business to check out and it looks pretty nice from the pictures I have seen. Power Play is located at the Lincoln Center and with 18,000 sq. ft. of space they appear to have quite a lot to offer players, including a »

Round-up from the JAMMA show (updated)

September 17, 2009, 4 Comments on Round-up from the JAMMA show (updated)

Since I don’t have the opportunity to visit the JAMMA show in Japan, we have to rely on what other sites are showing us in regards to what is going on over there. Thanks to several Japanese game websites, here is a run down of what has been going on at JAMMA. Sega launches »

New experiment: The Arcade Heroes Week-in-Review 'podcast'

June 14, 2009, 9 Comments on New experiment: The Arcade Heroes Week-in-Review 'podcast'

OK, so I have decided to try ‘podcasting’ – of course I don’t know if you can really consider this a podcast, it’s just an MP3 file to download here where you can listen to me discuss the latest happenings in the arcade industry over the past week that we have posted about here »

A quick word about Metal Gear Arcade and a message to some in the gamers blogosphere

June 11, 2009, 8 Comments on A quick word about Metal Gear Arcade and a message to some in the gamers blogosphere

We all know about Metal Gear Arcade, which was announced at E3 last week and several sites have suddenly picked up the news again with a Famitsu article describing the game in little detail, giving us similar details that I already posted about days ago. But as I have read through some the different »

New arcade releases this week: Nirin and Dance Dance Revolution X

May 21, 2009, 2 Comments on New arcade releases this week: Nirin and Dance Dance Revolution X

My local distributor tells me that two new games are now shipping out to various distributors and thus will be showing up at different locations around the country within the next few weeks. First off, Nirin by Namco. I got a chance to play this at ASI and it was cool – the graphics »

Forums down

May 15, 2009, 2 Comments on Forums down

Just a quick note here but the forums are down for some reason and I think that they have been for a couple of days. I’m not sure what’s up with them right now but we will try to get them up and running again soon. Also on a quick note, I have found »

Upcoming equipment spotlight shows by Betson

May 8, 2009, 1 Comment on Upcoming equipment spotlight shows by Betson

Betson Enterprises has sent us a couple of press releases detailing a couple of upcoming spotlight events for operators, the first two events will take place back-to-back in Oklahoma on May 12th and the 13th and then next month on June 3rd, they will hold another spotlight show in New Jersey. The shows will »

More boat racing coming to arcades with Aquarace; also a video of Sega’s Storm-G

March 28, 2009, 4 Comments on More boat racing coming to arcades with Aquarace; also a video of Sega’s Storm-G

It looks like H2Overdrive won’t be alone for long when it comes to frantic boat racing – Korean game maker Simuline has their own boat racing title ready to go called Aquarace, which from the video below looks to have great graphics coupled with a motion base. The game itself is a bit different »