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Sega Europe Sign Distribution Deal With TrioTech Amusement
I have been really looking forward to playing the UFO Stomper and seeing how it works. So I guess I’ll be heading towards Sega’s stand at ATEi to do so (as if I wasn’t heading that way anyway!). [via Highway Games] (again) Sega Amusements Europe have signed an exclusive deal with TrioTech Amusement for the exclusive distributor »
GlobalVR releases America's Army as a JAMMA kit
GlobalVR has released a conversion kit for America’s Army that will work in any JAMMA cabinet in response to operator and distributor requests. According to them, more conversion kits are needed to help rejuvenate the coin-op market. I think that is only part of the process of rejuvenating as lower prices all around and »
Another industry vet passes away – Steve Kaufman
This is the second death in the coin-op industry that I’m sad to report in the past couple of weeks. Steve Kaufman passed away last night after a two-year battle with cancer. He started out as an operator and worked at many different coin-op businesses including “Runyon Distributing, Rowe, Games of Nevada, Williams Pinball, »
GameWorks Announces Half Price Holidays
If you live anywhere near a GameWorks entertainment facility then this is good news for you. Gameworks has issued a press release detailing their half-off special for the holidays, where players can go and enjoy the games and simulators that Gameworks offers for half-off the normal price Monday-Friday. They also are offering a deal »
Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week: T-MEK vs. Tokyo Wars
Hello all and welcome to the Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week! This is a new idea I just had and I think it would be fun to pit two arcade games against each other that share some similarities and see how they do against your votes! For the first week we have T-MEK »
Black Spiderman pinball machine released
Stern Pinball issued a press release yesterday stating that the Black Spiderman pinball machine (that we first reported about in October) is now available in limited quantities. When they say limited, they really mean it – only 500 of these are being made. It’s the same game as other Spiderman pins – just with »
What Have We Been Playing This Week……
Sara -Spectrobes (DS) -Puzzle Quest (DS) -Lifesigns (DS) Shaggy -Tetris (Arcade) -King of Fighters 98 (Arcade) -Adventure 2 (Atari 5200) -The Orange Box: Half-Life 2 (Xbox 360) -Asteroids & Deluxe (XBLA) Twisted Supreme -Call of Duty 4 (360) -Halo 3 (360) -Virtua Tennis 3 (360 & Arcade) -Sega Rally (360) -And soon to be »
Incredible Technologies hires more employees, acquires State Street Games
[Via CoinOPToday.com] Golden Tee developer IT (Incredible Technologies) has just hired on 7 new employees for it’s development staff and they also acquired a game developer known as State Street Games (renamed to IT West). So why does this matter to you? More games from IT, that’s why. Here are a couple of quote »
The largest MMOG makes it's way to arcades with Audition
When I heard the term ‘largest MMOG on the internet’ I first thought ‘World of Warcraft’ but I also noticed that it didn’t say MMORPG. So no, World of Warcraft is NOT coming to arcades but a game that boasts more than 50 million registered players (the 50 million is from China alone) is »
Game of the Year: The Results
So after a month of voting the results are in and the winner is a not a total surprise considering it’s following. Can you guess what it is yet? (yes I know I’ve given it away with the picture!) And the winner is………………… Sega’s Virtua Fighter 5! Following up closely in joint second are Global VR’s »
Blazing Angels Arcade by Global VR
[Discuss on the Forum] (Click on the thumbnail below to enlarge) Afterburner Climax, meet your competition. Then again the games are probably quite different as far as gameplay since AfterBurner is on-rails and this lets you fly around where you choose but this is the first plane fighting game that has hit arcades since »
What Have We Been Playing This Week….
Now you may notice an extra name on the post this week and that is because we have added a new member to the team. Sara has been tipping us for a while on simulator related news. So I thought it would be great to add another point of view to the Arcade Heroes’ team. She’s quite busy at the moment, but »
