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Japanese Game Updates: Wonderland Library; Crossbeats REV. Sunrise & Pump It Up Prime Ver. 1.12
Let’s start the last week of April off with some news that is mainly focused on the Japanese arcade scene. Wonderland Library Now Available – Sega has launched a new addition to compliment their popular RPG arcade title Wonderland Wars called Wonderland Library. Appendix cabinets like these are very common in Japan, being found for »
Newsbytes: AH Podcast; Skycurser; Retro Arcade Japan; Project Arena & More
The end of April is approaching (already?) and it’s been an interesting month for news so far. Here’s a round-up of some arcade items that you might like: Arcade Heroes Podcast #13 – Our latest podcast is online, where we mainly talk about Midwest Gaming Classic and a few other items that have been »
New Update For Mario Kart Arcade GP DX In Japan
(Thanks to Kevin Williams for the tip) It was originally mentioned that Bandai Namco’s Mario Kart Arcade GP DX was an online game and as a part of that, annual content updates would be sent to the machines. Since the game was released in Japan about a year before the International (US/Europe) versions were, »
Bandai Namco Opens VR Zone Project iCan In Japan For Six Months
(Thanks to Kevin Williams for the tip) It was reported a short time ago that Bandai Namco was launching a new but temporary VR-arcade style facility in Japan by the name of VR ZONE Project iCan. With the launch date happening yesterday on April 15th, reporters and interested players in Japan have been able »
Stern Pinball Teases “Magnaslings” In Ghostbusters Pinball; Auto-Start Feature Coming Soon
Isn’t competition great? For years, the pinball scene had no competition going on and it showed by there being no new innovations in the games. Now that the field is competitive, we’re seeing the fruits of new ideas taking place. Such is the case with a short video shown by Stern Pinball today where »
New Arcades: Dave & Busters (NY & TX); Great Escape Social Eats & Crafts (IA); Coin-Op Game Room 3 (CA); HubZero (Dubai)
Any day is a good day for new venue news. Here are the new places to look at: Two Grand Openings For Dave & Busters Locations (NY & TX): I thought that we had mentioned the grand opening of the Rochester, NY location from back in March but it looks like it was missed, »
Japan: Pokémon Ga-Olé Coming This Summer
Among games that tend to get released in Japan are the card vending ‘kid-tainment’ games. Once in a blue moon, you might come across one in the US (not sure what kind of spread these get in Europe) like Animal Kaiser but it isn’t a very strong market here, for whatever reason. One part »
Unknown NEO GEO MVS Fighting Game Discovered & Dumped (UPDATED)
With all of the prototypes and unreleased games floating around out there, it is much more common for us to come across something that was reported on in the press at one time or at least that it has a title screen. In this discovery however, the circumstances just leave us with ‘Unknown’ as »
Newsbytes: DDR ACE; Arcade Expo 3.0; Argus; NTG#80
It has been a busy weekend so far! Hopefully any of you that owns arcade locations out there are seeing good business or if you are a gamer, that you find some arcade goodness to enjoy. Here are some bits and bytes of news to enjoy – make sure you read the news about »
New Games At MGC 2016: Raider’s Run, Spectre Files Deathstalker, Skycurser and More
The Midwest Gaming Classic 2016 event (MGC 2016) is well under way in Wisconsin today and with that, some news on new arcade titles that smaller developers are showing off. Game Refuge and Galloping Ghost: The other day we reported that two companies out of IL were joining forces to produce three new video »
Beavis & Butt-head Prototype Now At The Galloping Ghost Arcade
During the 1990s while hand drawn cartoons were still a thing, the irreverent Beavis & Butt-head made waves across American culture, lasting on the tube for several years, getting a feature length film and insipiring other shows like South Park. At one point, Atari Games was working on a B&B arcade game that had »
First Ever VR Arcade Conference To Be Held In California This May
Video game news has been buzzing with VR developments for a while now and in the arcade business we’ve had no exception to seeing the technology make an attempt to re-enter the business over the past few years. I have also heard through the grapevine that a number of arcade game makers are looking »
