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Newsbytes: Mission Impossible Sitdown Spotted, D&B Bets On Playce It, More On Taiko US, Headlines
Welcome to Newsbytes, our series of posts at AH that curates some quick news stories from around the world of arcades & pinball. News output continues to be a little slow; these have tended to be only once monthly of late, where we usually try to get two or three out, but given enough »
Location Watch August 2024: New Arcades Opening The World Over
Welcome to Location Watch, a special series of posts that curates news about recent arcade business openings from around the world, into one place. The last time that we had one of these posts was back at the beginning of June. Thanks to our various readers for sharing information on locations, along with other »
Kevin Williams: Dance The Night Away To The Rhythm Resurgence
Guest contributor & industry specialist Kevin Williams is back, this time taking a look at the “rhythm resurgence” as music games return to prominence on the gaming scene. Take it away Kevin! KWP: In this special feature for Arcade Heroes, we look at the reemergence of the music/rhythm game genre. Once an incredibly profitable »
Attending Expos: California Extreme 2024 & Utah Retro GameXpo 2024
Things have been a little bit quiet for the blog lately, but I’ve been super busy. Big nod to Ted for helping out on many stories and drafts during this time. In the meantime, I’ve been to two gaming expos in the past few weeks, California Extreme & the Utah Retro GameXpo. With those »
Atari Announces Asteroids Recharged Arcade Orders
The return of Atari and Asteroids to arcades is upon us, as the former revealed today in a press release about orders opening for Asteroids Recharged Arcade on their website. Note that Adam has recently been doing some consultancy for the developers of this arcade machine (Alan-1 Inc.), so Ted is taking this post. »
Confirmed: Taiko No Tatsujin Is Launching In US Arcades This November
You may remember in our last post about Marvelous’ two new kids card game launches, it was said that they would possibly be the biggest arcade news for this month. Well, less than two days later, we now have a huge surprise announcement and update for one of the most highly anticipated arcade games »
International Bowl Expo 2024 Preview
It’s time for your middle-of-the-year arcade event known as Bowl Expo, although this one is meant to focus on bowling. Since most bowling centers happen to have an arcade on-site, their annual get-together now boasts a stronger presence of arcade game makers. It’s not as well attended by those companies as something like Amusement »
Happy National Video Arcade Day 2024!
Today is June 27th and that means its National Video Arcade Day! Why today? Because it’s Atari’s birthday, and that’s as good a mark as any to denote when video arcades and our favorite period of arcade history got their start (yes, PONG wouldn’t launch until later in 1972, but since we don’t have »
Arcade Collection LIVE Now Available From Incredible Technologies
Arcade operators and bar owners are always on the lookout for games that are affordable and earn great. Incredible Technologies has long been happy to fill that demand, usually with the likes of Golden Tee, but more recently a compilation piece they call Arcade Collection. Now, Arcade Collection has added the LIVE online features »
GENDA Makes A Major Move In The US Arcade Market With The Acquisition of NEN
Japanese arcade owners GENDA are now poised to become a major player in the US market, as they are set to acquire one of the largest arcade operation networks in the USA. Let’s dive into this news and how it might affect the scene across the country. Who is GENDA & NEN? GENDA (“Global »
Location Watch June 2024: New Arcade Venues Open Across The World
Welcome to Location Watch, our series of posts at AH that cover recently-launched arcades across the world. If you’re curious to find out which new arcade businesses have opened up lately, this is the place to be. This covers the recent grand openings for out-of-home entertainment establishments such as arcades, bar/arcades, retrocades, Family Entertainment »
Now Available To Order: KungFu Kickball Arcade Edition
An indie console game by the name of KungFu Kickball is now available for arcades. This bit of news should have been posted before the month switched over to June, but we’ll make up for the delay on my end with some juicy details. Let’s go! What Is KungFu Kickball? In case you hadn’t »
