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UK Pinball Party starts tomorrow

August 12, 2010, No Comments on UK Pinball Party starts tomorrow

Pinball junkies in the UK have a big event to look forward to, the UK Pinball Party. It begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday although they already have held a warming up event with a competition between Martyn Raison (the top ranked junior UK player) and the two times Pinball World Champion Gary Flower. »

About Arcade Heroes

August 11, 2010, Comments Off on About Arcade Heroes

Social Media: Arcade Heroes Facebook / Arcade Heroes Twitter / Arcade Heroes YouTube / Arcade Heroes Discord / Arcade Heroes Instagram Our main purpose: To report on news about the video arcade / pinball / out-of-home entertainment world. Some opinion and observations are interjected on occasion as well. Our History: Arcade Heroes was started on December »

Racer by Sputnic

August 6, 2010, No Comments on Racer by Sputnic

Now here is a novel mixed reality idea for the arcade racing genre. Simply called Racer, a team called Sputnic has developed a game where a player sits down in an arcade racing cabinet, which then serves as a controller for an RC car that is setup on a cardboard race track. A camera »

See Darius Burst Another Chronicle in action

August 6, 2010, No Comments on See Darius Burst Another Chronicle in action

Newsfeed 894 via As promised, Taito had a live stream take place this morning/last night (depending upon your location) and in that video we got our first look at their upcoming Darius Burst Another Chronicle. I was unwillingly awake this morning when it was on and I watched some of it at the time »

Fall 2010 video preview from the AAMA Distributor Gala

August 2, 2010, 4 Comments on Fall 2010 video preview from the AAMA Distributor Gala

Newsfeed 892 via As promised here is some video footage from the recent AAMA Distributor Gala, taken by the fine folks at BMIGaming (website here, video channel here). In the video you’ll see the first footage from the new Terminator Salvation cabinets(32″ & 100″), Super Bikes 2 (we found out after the video was »

Pengo returning to arcades, supports up to 8 players

July 30, 2010, 2 Comments on Pengo returning to arcades, supports up to 8 players

‘Tis the season of classic arcade remakes or sequels, or at least it seems that way. We have the excitement of a new four-player Pac-Man game, a new Darius and now we have another classic returning to arcades with Pengo. I never have played the arcade version of the original Pengo but I remember »

An update on Golden Tee Live 2011 and Incredible Technologies again named one of Chicago's best companies to work for

July 29, 2010, 2 Comments on An update on Golden Tee Live 2011 and Incredible Technologies again named one of Chicago's best companies to work for

We’ve got some Incredible Technologies news today and with that we’ll start off with the company winning an award. That award is from the National Association for Business Resources (NABR) who has named IT one of Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For. This is the third consecutive year the company has »

Taito bringing Darius back to arcades with Darius Burst Another Chronicle(Updated)

July 27, 2010, 7 Comments on Taito bringing Darius back to arcades with Darius Burst Another Chronicle(Updated)

Newsfeed 884 via It’s been a little over a week now since we learned that Taito had placed a new countdown webpage on the arcade side of their Japanese site, a countdown which at the time of this writing is set to expire in 2 days and 16 hours from now. But why wait »

Playing for charity: Incredible Technologies Golden Tee event for veterans; UK Pinball Party charity event for needy kids

July 24, 2010, No Comments on Playing for charity: Incredible Technologies Golden Tee event for veterans; UK Pinball Party charity event for needy kids

Two charity events for different causes are on the horizon, one in the USA and the other in the UK. To summarize, Incredible Technologies will be holding a charitable event on August 27th-29th in at Splinter’s Sports Pub in Palatine, IL and on the other side of the pond, the UK Pinball Party is »

Stern Pinball @ Comic-Con 2010

July 22, 2010, No Comments on Stern Pinball @ Comic-Con 2010

Via the Stern Facebook fan page. One of the biggest geek events for the year is now underway, Comic-Con 2010 and while console games are showing a strong presence at the show, arcade games aren’t really there to be seen. Granted, that is because there isn’t anything new out there involving comic books (yes »

Namco's Tank! Tank! Tank! update adds new enemies, NamCam avatars

July 20, 2010, No Comments on Namco's Tank! Tank! Tank! update adds new enemies, NamCam avatars

Namco America has announced a new software update for Tank! Tank! Tank!, and with it comes new content that gives players more to look for when they play the game. The update will give the game the software update which we first saw at Amusement Expo 2010. This includes the Bee-Bots(pictured above) and Octo-Giant »

Guest Post: A review of Planet Fun, Inngoldmels, UK by Kieran May

July 15, 2010, 2 Comments on Guest Post: A review of Planet Fun, Inngoldmels, UK by Kieran May

It’s been a while since we had an arcade location review, as well as a guest post but Arcade Heroes reader (and frequent tipster) Kieran May sent us his review of an FEC in the UK known as Planet Fun. He gets into what they offer as well as the customer service aspect and »