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Barcade's Blazing Angels Review

March 5, 2008, No Comments on Barcade's Blazing Angels Review

Now I gave you my impressionsof Global VR’s WWII fighter pilot game back in January, but it’s worth checking out Barcade’srecent review of the game. After all, it’s always good to read another opinion, especially seeings as I only got to play it a couple of times at ATEi. In Blazing Angels you are »

Missing in Action: Scrolling Fighters

March 4, 2008, 7 Comments on Missing in Action: Scrolling Fighters

Missing In Action is a column where we take a look at genres that have all but disappeared in the arcade industry as light-gun games, racers and dancers have primarily replaced other types of games that play well in the arcade. If you missed previous articles, we have already covered Space Games and Puzzle »

Last week on Arcade Heroes

March 2, 2008, No Comments on Last week on Arcade Heroes

So we had some SF4 news, as always. We saw some interesting news about the possibility of a new Sega Rally coming our way and Shaggy put up a review of Rip Off for our reading pleasure. In fact Shaggy put up all but one of the posts this week, so big thanks to him »

Tekken 6 – Artificial Shortage by Namco?

February 29, 2008, 9 Comments on Tekken 6 – Artificial Shortage by Namco?

Here’s another feature article from our friends at The Stinger Report. Enjoy! Tekken 6 – Artificial Shortage? Players in the US and UK accuse Namco of creating an artificial shortage of Tekken 6 machines. After visiting the only cabinets in the UK (the same one from ATEI) on a Thursday at 9pm, over 15 »

Golden Tee to be featured at all Chicago Rush home games

February 28, 2008, No Comments on Golden Tee to be featured at all Chicago Rush home games

Before I get started I should point out that this article discusses American-football and not soccer (or what is called football everywhere else 🙂 ). In particular it discusses Arena Football, which is a different league than the NFL known as the AFL. From what I know, Arena Football is all indoors and has »

Even more Street Fighter IV News

February 27, 2008, No Comments on Even more Street Fighter IV News

It’s never ending isn’t it? Two more pieces of SF4 news has filtered through, both from Kotaku. First up there is talk that the console version of Street Fighter 4 will include a bigger roster. This news disappoints me slightly, obviously. Perhaps they will release these characters in a later revision of the arcade game? The »

What have we been playing…..and a new member

February 27, 2008, No Comments on What have we been playing…..and a new member

I’d like to use this post to welcome our latest member to the Arcade Heroes team. HeavyElectricity has been a regular poster on our forums, so I hope you’ll join me in giving him a warm welcome to the team. HeavyElectricity  – Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials & Tribulations (DS) – Gridrunner++ (PC) Shaggy -Warlords (Arcade) »

Play-On – arcade development system from Italy (w/ new arcade games)

February 26, 2008, No Comments on Play-On – arcade development system from Italy (w/ new arcade games)

The latest Stinger Report (Issue #618) finishes up coverage on ATEI from last month and with it plenty of great information, including news of a relatively new developer from Italy that has created a PC-based arcade system that is based on an open source development system known as the ELF Integrated Scripting System which »

Battle Lines – Arcade Street Fighter IV Rocks GDC!

February 26, 2008, 1 Comment on Battle Lines – Arcade Street Fighter IV Rocks GDC!

From Kevin Williams comes this look at trends in the game console industry and certain issues they are facing there and a resurgence in interest in arcades thanks to Street Fighter IV. It also discusses the issues that mainstream gaming media happen to have when it comes to covering amusement. Enjoy! Battle Lines – »

Location Review – Galaxy World, Sydney

February 23, 2008, 6 Comments on Location Review – Galaxy World, Sydney

(More picture after the break) The second arcade I visited whilst I was in Australia, which was called Galaxy World, had a great selection of games. The most exciting for me had to be Stern Pinball’s Wheel of Fortune. This was the first time I had seen the game, or played it for that »