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Leland Cook Jr. of Tradewest passes away
Via Remember Ikari Warriors? That was one of the first games to be licensed by video game company Tradewest. While Tradewest was primarily known for their work on the NES, they did purchase coin-op company Cinematronics in 1987 and renamed that to Leland Games, which did continue to produce a number of coin-op titles »
Terminator Salvation Arcade coming to IAAPA next week
(Click on the image above for a more detailed view) We first heard about a Terminator Salvation arcade title way back at ASI in March and except for a brief view of the game on a location test in June, there has been little else to say about the game since information surrounding it »
Sega Racing Classic preview at 1up.com
After hearing of our report that Sega was testing Sega Racing Classic at the Gameworks in Chicago, 1up writer Andrew Hayward made his way to the location to check the game out and give everyone a preview of the game in action. In addition to that he grabbed a couple of videos of the »
Prepping for 2010 with a look back at Combatica
A short time ago we reported about a new company that is joining the amusement industry called Titan 4 Games. Their plan is to bring gesture-based motion gaming to the coin-op industry next year and as we are finding out from The Stinger Report, they aren’t the only ones looking to do the same »
Exergaming with Dogfight V2
Exergaming has become a lucrative commodity for gyms and Nintendo in recent times but it can also be a nice addition to an arcade location. One company that is in the business of developing exergames is Electronic Sports and we have previously reported on Dogfight, a title by the company that combines an exercise »
Incredible Technologies announces Silver Strike LIVE for Q1 2010
With Incredible Technologies rolling out the latest iteration of their Golden Tee series this month, I was wondering if we were going to hear anything about the other series they have been promoting heavily for the past few years – Silver Strike. As it turns out they have a new edition of that game »
The 2009 Big Buck World Championships wrap-up (updated)
I received a couple of e-mails recently asking about details on how the 2009 Big Buck World Championships went down a couple of weeks ago but I hadn’t heard anything about it until today. You might recall that there were two national tournaments that occurred at the same time – one for BBHPro(the night »
Big Buck Hunter Pro iPhone app (with an arcade finder) UPDATED
While there have been many new games on the Apple iPhone which are conversions of an arcade game in some form or another, we have not seen many modern arcade ports to the platform. That is about to change with the release of Big Buck Hunter Pro for the iPhone by developer Super Happy »
More details unveiled on Namco's Dead Storm Pirates
(Thanks to reader kieranmay for the tip) We have already mentioned Namco’s upcoming light-gun title known as Dead Storm Pirates a couple of times but up until now we really haven’t seen much other than the game cabinet. Now thanks to a new update to Highway Games, we have a much more detailed look »
More info on the future of Super Street Fighter IV for arcades
Today Kotaku had a post regarding the possibility of the new Super Street Fighter IV getting an arcade release, stating how it would be easy to do so, if they really wanted to do it. Arcade industry consultant and AH contributor Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report enlightens us with some extra details on »
Skee-ball celebrating it's 100th anniversary at IAAPA this year
When IAAPA rolls around next month there will be plenty to celebrate in the amusement industry but one thing that is already catching some attention is the 100th anniversary of skee-ball, which will be receiving special honors at the show. Skee-ball has been a stalwart in the out-of-home entertainment sector since it was invented »
Arcade Heroes Podcast #9
Kevin Williams joins me again as we discuss the newest releases that AH has covered in the past couple of weeks, including discussions on Sega Racing Classic, the new gesture-motion sensing games that are in the works, a little bit of pinball discussion and most of the time we focus on what was seen »
