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Incredible Technologies Golden Tee Charity Drive raises over $75,000 for veterans

September 4, 2010, 3 Comments on Incredible Technologies Golden Tee Charity Drive raises over $75,000 for veterans

As the US celebrates Labor Day this weekend, a number of charitable events also get underway for various causes. Incredible Technologies already held their third Players Charity Championship this past weekend however and have announced the results just in time for the holiday. 72 Golden Tee players can together for a tournament and raised »

FTC subpoenas Chuck E. Cheese again for marketing food to kids

September 2, 2010, 4 Comments on FTC subpoenas Chuck E. Cheese again for marketing food to kids

Chuck E. Cheese is back in the news but this time it has nothing to do with how adults handle themselves at some CEC locations but with how the company does it marketing. The US Federal Trade Commission has sent subpoenas to 48 companies in regards to how they market to kids and once »

Browsing the GTI Asia China Expo 2010

August 31, 2010, No Comments on Browsing the GTI Asia China Expo 2010

The GTI Asia China Expo 2010 has come and gone and finally we are getting a first look at the many new arcade games that were on hand. Some look like originals, some appear to be bootlegs but on thing is clear, the Chinese amusement market is growing fast and as long as they »

Are Glasses-free 3D TV's what the arcade industry needs?

August 24, 2010, 3 Comments on Are Glasses-free 3D TV's what the arcade industry needs?

The past few days have been a news desert for arcades and so far today isn’t looking any different although I did find some interest in this story about Toshiba’s development of a new TV set technology that finally allows the viewer to watch stereoscopic 3D content without the aid of glasses. That is »

Pandora’s Adventure II coming to GTI Asia China Expo 2010 next week

August 21, 2010, No Comments on Pandora’s Adventure II coming to GTI Asia China Expo 2010 next week

Newsfeed 906 via Game Time International (or GTI) is busy ramping up for another trade show, that being the GTI Asia China Expo 2010. This new line of mainland China shows that have happened since only last year compliments their existing ones in Taiwan, which we’ve covered before. When 2010’s gets under way on »

Yoony’s Vulcan 4D blasts it’s way to arcades

August 20, 2010, No Comments on Yoony’s Vulcan 4D blasts it’s way to arcades

Newsfeed 905 via Korean-based game maker Yoony Electronic’s amazed us with their massive Vulcan-M chain-gun coin-op game and they already have a sequel of sorts ready to go for the arcade market. Vulcan 4D retains the head-turning aspect of a rotating chain-gun for the controller but they’ve downgraded it from it’s smoke-spewing, shell ejecting »

Street Fighter X Tekken could get a coin-op version after all

August 19, 2010, 1 Comment on Street Fighter X Tekken could get a coin-op version after all

Newsfeed 904 via This seems to be a new trend for Capcom these days, announcing a fighter with coin-op roots but only talking about a console version of that game until later when they suddenly allude to the coin-op version of the same game. That’s how it was with Super Street Fighter IV and »

The Crazy Tale of a Sundance Cabinet

August 18, 2010, 5 Comments on The Crazy Tale of a Sundance Cabinet

A short time ago, a poster on the KLOV forums (a well-known forum for arcade collectors) made a significant arcade discovery on a website dedicated to taking pictures of abandoned man-made structures called ArtificialOwl.com. On this post, they took a look at an abandoned bar/restaurant called the Little Sweden, where laying among the piles »

Article: The Player — Japanese Queuing for Arcade!

August 16, 2010, No Comments on Article: The Player — Japanese Queuing for Arcade!

Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report has penned a new article just for us and this one takes a look at the growing interest in the amusement sector in Japan, despite the doom and gloom that had been shopped around a couple of years ago when some companies had begun closing some locations there. »

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/X / 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. Our first goal is accurate reporting from first-hand sources, but we will occasionally include some opinion and observations »

Racer by Sputnic

August 6, 2010, 4 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 »