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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 »
Perfect Pour by DSM Arcade Preps To Launch In Early 2025
Not everything in the arcade world took place at IAAPA, although hang tight, we’re still working on compiling news for that to wrap it all up. Until then, let’s look at a game that wasn’t there in-person called Perfect Pour by DSM Arcade. We’ve covered this game before, but now it is approaching it’s »
IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 3: Pinball
In our continuing coverage from IAAPA 2024, let’s take the opportunity to discuss pinball! Specifically the three pinball companies that went there – Stern Pinball, Jersey Jack Pinball, and American Pinball. For previous coverage: Part #1: Raw Thrills; TouchMagix; Amusement Source; Wahlap; Alan-1; Night Heron Part #2: Bandai Namco Amusement; Sega Amusements; LAI Games; »
IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 2: Bandai Namco Amusement; Sega Amusements; LAI Games; UNIS
It’s finally time to continue our after-show coverage of IAAPA 2024 with its second part, now tackling the likes of Bandai Namco Amusement, Sega Amusements, LAI Games and UNIS. This does not complete everyone, but will continue to get you caught up on all of the biggest news and announcements on the new games »
Arcade Heroes Turns 18 – Let’s Look Back At Our Biggest Stories
This is a bit last minute, but as we write this, it is December 3rd. This means that it’s time to celebrate a milestone for the site, as Arcade Heroes has entered its eighteenth year of operation. The site was created to share news from the niche world of arcades at a time where »
Newsbytes: Bandai Namco Teases New Wangan Midnight & Bike Dash Delivery; Spooky Pinball Reveals Evil Dead; New APM3 & NesicaXLive2 Titles; Much More
Welcome to Newsbytes, our semi-regular series of posts at AH that covers the quicker pieces of news from around the arcade industry. Quite a few things have bubbled up outside of IAAPA, although we still have a lot to cover from that show – so stay tuned this next week, as we’ll finally be »
IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 1: Raw Thrills; TouchMagix; Amusement Source; Wahlap; Alan-1; Night Heron
Things have been quiet on the site, but that doesn’t mean that we haven’t been busy. IAAPA 2024 was a successful trade show by all accounts (including mine), and the amount of video that I shot from the event has taken a bit of time to edit – between other responsibilities. Let’s begin to »
Taiko No Tatsujin USA Version Release Details
Day 1 of the IAAPA 2024 trade show is in the bag, and one game is getting more questions thrown my way than any other so far, being Bandai Namco Amusements’ Taiko No Tatsujin USA Version. Let’s dig in. Taiko No Tatsujin USA Version – Available With A Caveat The biggest piece of news »
