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Indie Arcade Games
This page has been created to track “indie” (i.e., independently produced, generally by a very small team with limited resources) arcade games. These games often don’t receive much attention outside of a few small pockets of niche interests online, and because they rarely receive support from distributors, few operators tend to purchase them. If »
Talking Indies With Indie Arcade Wave
This week has been dead for arcade news, and I haven’t had the time to cook up an opinion piece or article, but I was able to Joe of Slackerz Inc. and Indie Arcade Wave last week, and he posted the podcast for it today. I figure that it’s a good idea to shine »
Newsbytes: Big Buck Reloaded Updates; Power-up Baseball; Corporate Restructuring & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a quick collection of news items from around the wonderful world of arcades. I’m your host, Arcadehero, curator & commentator on the content. 😉 Today is also my first day out of isolation after I came down with The Virus. Fortunately, no one else in my home got it, no one »
Andamiro Unveils Standard Upright Model For House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn
As you saw the headline for this one I’m sure it elicited a reaction not unlike the many wonderful memes online that fall under the “wut?” genre, but no worries, I’m happy to explain and get everyone on the right page. In the arcade business, you often have instances where a competitor company promotes »
Raw Thrills Begins Shipping King Kong Of Skull Island VR
It’s a big year for the King Kong franchise, and to get the ball rolling in that regard, Raw Thrills has released their first full-on arcade game since launching Nitro Trucks last summer. Covered on the blog here a few times, King Kong of Skull Island VR is Raw Thrill’s first foray into the »
Coming Soon To JAMMA Arcade Machines: Twin Tiger Shark – Not The SAME!
It sure has been a spell since we had a standalone arcade news story to discuss, so I’m happy to say that this one is about a “new retro” game. New retro probably fits the description best, given that this game is patterned after Toaplan shoot ’em ups from the late 80s (particularly Same! »
Newsbytes: AtGames Launches ArcadeNet; New Videos; VR WOW; Arcade Ports
This week has been extremely quiet for arcade news, but there are a few items that showed up late in the week that are fine for Newsbytes. Let’s hop to it! AtGames Launches Their ArcadeNet Service Game streaming services are slowly starting to catch up to movie streaming services, although we aren’t close yet »
Newsbytes: More Namco Art; GENDA/SEGA Takes Taito’s Record; HyperNova Release & More
Welcome to another edition of Newsbytes, a collection of brief news items from the world of arcades & pinball. I didn’t find much this week again…but some manufacturers are coming to life again, so perhaps we’ll see a little more as the month continues to march along. New From The Namco Museum Of Art: »
Bandai Namco Announces A New Tournament For Maximum Tune 5
It has been a while since we had some game news from Bandai Namco Amusements America, the US/CAN side of the company – and an even longer time since we had something new to share on their 2017 release, Maximum Tune 5. Now that a new year is in full swing, that is changing. »
Newsbytes: The Games Of 2020; Conquest; Formula Race; Pinball Stuff & More
Welcome to the first Newsbytes of 2021, where I collect some quick news stories from around the world of arcades & pinball for your weekend reading pleasure. It was a bit delayed and almost didn’t happen for the weekend as I had to get our first item done in time and had other things »
Pre-Orders Open For Nippon Marathon Turbo Hyper = Running & Blazing Chrome AC
Just when I wasn’t expecting to come across any news for the last week of the year, something has popped up. Once again, this is thanks to the exA-Arcadia, which continues to pump games out (speaking of which, my copy of Gimmick! arrived two days earlier than I had anticipated…but I was not at »
Newsbytes: New For Nintendo Vs.; Namco Art Gallery; Armored Princess Battle Conductor & More
Happy Holidays everyone, regardless of the belief you have and the days that you commemorate. Welcome to the final Newsbytes of 2020, with these posts involving a quick collection of news from the arcade/pinball world. There’s not a ton to talk about this time since it’s on the tail end of what is usually »
