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Want To Make An Arcade Game? Check Out The #NoticeMe Game Jam & The Arcade Jam Contests
When a video game becomes a proper arcade game (being put into a cabinet that can take payment of some kind to play it), we give it a highlight on this site, regardless it being developed & produced by a big company or an independent creator. We haven’t heard much from the latter since »
Newsbytes: King Kong VR Chapter 3; Winner Winner App; New Arcade Books; Super Hoop Pinball & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news items from around the Arcade & Pinball world for your reading enjoyment. King Kong of Skull Island Adds A 3rd Chapter Operators who have a King Kong VR machine from Raw Thrills will be happy to hear that there is a free update available for the game, »
Next In Videmption From Sega: Jumanji
Next month will be rather busy for Sega Amusements – they began shipping their latest light-gun game Mission: Impossible Arcade DX last month, then next they will begin shipping a few titles including VR Agent, ATV Slam SD, and the videmption game Men In Black. Soon joining these titles is another new videmption piece, »
GENDA-Owned Sega Arcades To Change Name To GiGO In Japan
Today, it was revealed that Genda completed their purchase of Sega’s amusement operations division, purchasing the remaining 15% of shares. As a part of that, they changed the name of their company to GENDA GiGO Entertainment and will remove the SEGA name from those buildings in Japan (with one exception I’ll mention below). GiGO »
The Lyman Sheats Tribute Post
It was suggested that I do a post just for Lyman Sheats and I have to agree – so let’s use this space to express your condolences for the passing of a master pinball wizard. If you aren’t familiar with Lyman, let me quote from the Newsbytes post the other day: Lyman was a »
Newsbytes: RIP Lyman Sheats; Park Avenue 2022; NeoXperience; New Games For PlayChoice-10 & Much More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated collection of news from the world of arcades & pinball, run on the weekends. As a note, I am working on a new Location Watch post and continue to work on the Games of 2021 video, among other things. Lyman F. Sheats Passes Away At 55 I hate to »
The Arcade Anniversaries of 2022 (25, 40 & 50 Year Milestones)
It’s a new year, and with arcade news being a tiny bit slow, I figured it would be a good time to bring an old article series back – looking at arcade anniversaries. This time I’m going to cover major games that are turning 25 (1997), 40 (1982) and 50 (1972), since we can »
Pre-Orders Open For Akai Katana/Crimson Katana EXA Label
Arcade shoot ’em ups aren’t as strong as they used to be on the North American market, but the genre isn’t dead. Thanks to the efforts of some indie companies and now exA-Arcadia, fans of the genre have had a lot to enjoy and look forward to. ExA has been the biggest driving force »
Arcade & Pinball Releases For 2022
What arcade & pinball games have been released in 2022? That’s what this page is for! Simply select the region you wish to browse for video games & pinball below via the tabs. Videmption & AR/VR attractions & EM Games are separated out, but those genres tend to only focus on North America. Expect »
2021 Year-In-Review With The Top 10 Posts
Welcome to something of an annual tradition here at Arcade Heroes, albeit something sort of rare on my part – a Top 10 list. I’m not big on such lists since most of them on the internet are arbitrary opinions, but here I can base my list off of hard data. Before we get »
Kevin Williams: GameWorks – The Slow Collapse Of The Dream!
Ending the year with a new guest post for the site, industry specialist Kevin Williams takes time to look back at the tempestuous history of Gameworks – when Hollywood came to arcades. He sent it in to “bring to light of what has led to [GameWorks’] latest collapse, and the cautionary lesson of its »
