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World's Greatest Pinball Player '06

April 7, 2007, No Comments on 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

April 2, 2007, No Comments on 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

March 5, 2007, No Comments on 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.

December 18, 2006, 1 Comment on 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 »

Bandai Namco Announces One Piece Dawn Strike – New Punching Arcade Game

Bandai Namco Announces One Piece Dawn Strike – New Punching Arcade Game

August 10, 2025, No Comments on Bandai Namco Announces One Piece Dawn Strike – New Punching Arcade Game

The new arcade games just keep on coming with Bandai Namco, as today they have sprung a surprise announcement on us – a new video punching/boxing arcade game based on the huge One Piece anime and manga series, One Piece Dawn Strike. Let’s take a look at the information on it out there so »

LAI Games Releases Cyberpunk 2077: Turf Wars To All Arcades

LAI Games Releases Cyberpunk 2077: Turf Wars To All Arcades

August 2, 2025, No Comments on LAI Games Releases Cyberpunk 2077: Turf Wars To All Arcades

As we run through the dog days of summer, it’s time for another big arcade game to start shipping, and for today that would be the release version of LAI Games and CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077: Turf Wars. Following its initial limited exclusive launch for Dave & Buster’s in the US, the game »

Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World

Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World

July 31, 2025, No Comments on Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World

Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers the news of brand new arcade locations which have opened anywhere on the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations that we hear about, but thanks to various readers, and other arcade news sites like RePlay »

Earthion EXA LABEL Blasts Its Way Into Arcades

Earthion EXA LABEL Blasts Its Way Into Arcades

July 30, 2025, No Comments on Earthion EXA LABEL Blasts Its Way Into Arcades

Yuzo Koshiro’s latest piece of gaming art is now available for players to enjoy, but not just as a game on home platforms – an enhanced version is available for arcades known as Earthion EXA Label. Read on. Earthion For those who are as yet unaware, Earthion was started as a shoot ’em up »

New Arcade Releases From East To West – UNIS, Ace, Superwing & More

New Arcade Releases From East To West – UNIS, Ace, Superwing & More

July 27, 2025, No Comments on New Arcade Releases From East To West – UNIS, Ace, Superwing & More

We’re a little ways past the Chinese amusement trade show AAA 2025, and the question that always comes with the new games shown at events like it is whether they will come out West. As it turns out, quite a few should be doing just that, although as a disclaimer, some of these remain »

Sega Amusements Ships Alpha Ops VR Strike

Sega Amusements Ships Alpha Ops VR Strike

July 21, 2025, No Comments on Sega Amusements Ships Alpha Ops VR Strike

Arcade virtual reality is getting a shot in the arm again, as Sega Amusements have begun shipping their latest major release to use the technology – Alpha Ops VR Strike. We have the full details for this new VR on rails shooter below. Alpha Ops VR Strike – Background First unveiled as a prototype »

Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More

Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More

July 19, 2025, No Comments on Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More

Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts which focus on quick news pieces from around the wonderful world of arcades & pinball. We generally aim to publish these on the weekend so that you have something to read about them. As mentioned before news has been slow in the dog days of Summer, »

Alan-1 Launches Missile Command: Recharged Arcade

Alan-1 Launches Missile Command: Recharged Arcade

July 18, 2025, No Comments on Alan-1 Launches Missile Command: Recharged Arcade

It’s been 45 years since Atari originally released the iconic Missile Command to arcades (released in June 1980) and in all of that time, it’s the only iteration of the game to have graced arcade game rooms – until now. Alan-1 Inc., one of our sponsors here and local to me, have released the »