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The Act: an Interactive Movie on Location Test
The Act is an attempt at revitalizing the “interactive movie” arcade game made popular by games like Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace in the 1980s. The Act attempts to do this by fixing the one problem that these games always had: direct control. Instead of using a joystick and buttons to tell the character »
World's Greatest Pinball Player '06
The IFPA have crowned Keith Elwin as World’s Greatest Pinball Player for 2006, the first ever recipient of the ” World’s Greatest Pinball Player” accolade following the formation of the IFPA’s rankings in April last year. The award is given to the player with the most WPPR points at the end of the calendar »
Silent Hill – The Arcade Game – Japan Location Test
Please bare in mind than this is translated from Japanese to English through Babelfish, so excuse the inaccurancing in the wording etc. – ‘ The silent hill arcade ‘ it went to the location test In it is the location test which “AM サントロペ Ikebukuro” starts from yesterday, but it tried going right away. »
Pro Evo Arcade Location Tests
Konami is currently trialling an arcade cabinet in the UK based on the hit Pro Evolution Soccer franchise. The two-player Pro Evolution Soccer Arcade Championship is being tested in two locations in London, with the intention of launching more coin-op units later this year. The cabinet uses e-Amusement cards, which allow players to »
Sega Quiz game on test.
Everyones seems to be getting in on the whole quiz / brain training craze at the moment. Sega have just recently put on test a quiz game called “Answer x Answer” in an Akihabara arcade. Hit the link for a roughly translated description of this new arcade quiz game. Location Test Japan »
EAG Expo 2025 Preview
The first major amusement-focused trade show of this year is now just around the corner, as EAG Expo 2025 is about to start up at London’s ExCel venue for three days from tomorrow. In case there are any new readers viewing this, the EAG Expo serves the Entertainment, Attractions and Gaming industries of the »
Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review 2024: Business, New Games, History & More
Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2024. Let’s take a look back at the last twelve months and provide a “State of the Industry” report for you to consider. We have done these most years on the site; our last for 2023 unfortunately ended on a slightly sour note, but that’s not always »
Location Watch December 2024: New Arcades Open For 2025
Welcome to Location Watch, a series here on Arcade Heroes that endeavors to track and report on new arcade location openings from all around the world. This will be our final look at new locations for 2024, while also giving us a preview of some locations that are new and fresh for 2025. Our »
Newsbytes: New Virtua Fighter, Stern Pinball Cup, 35 Years Of Wahlap, More
Welcome to another edition of Newsbytes, the series of posts at AH that brings together the latest news from around the arcade and pinball worlds. It’s been a little quiet this month, with the IAAPA buzz dying down and a lot of people in the industry seemingly either too busy behind the scenes or »
IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 5: Redemption, Simulators & VR
Welcome to the fifth and final part of our IAAPA 2024 coverage, this time tackling redemption, simulator machines, and VR. Though the latter two can demonstrate more innovation, redemption and prize machines continue to be a major revenue driver for most locations out there, thus many companies (if not all of them) tend to »
IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 4: exA-Arcadia, Indies, & More
Continuing with our IAAPA 2024 wrap-up, which will soon be completed once and for all, let’s take a look at more of the players within the industry that fit the video game side of amusement more so than the redemption one. We’ve already covered our advertisers and big names like Raw Thrills, Bandai Namco, »
Alan-1 Begins Shipping Asteroids Recharged Arcade; Celebrates IAAPA Brass Ring Win
Following a successful showing at IAAPA 2024 that saw it awarded a coveted Brass Ring Award, Utah based Alan-1 has begun shipping both the Pro and Deluxe models of their Asteroids Recharged arcade game that first debuted at Amusement Expo 2024 earlier this year. The units actually began shipping right before the show, but »
