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Want To Make An Arcade Game? Check Out The #NoticeMe Game Jam & The Arcade Jam Contests

Want To Make An Arcade Game? Check Out The #NoticeMe Game Jam & The Arcade Jam Contests

February 28, 2022, 1 Comment on 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

Newsbytes: King Kong VR Chapter 3; Winner Winner App; New Arcade Books; Super Hoop Pinball & More

February 5, 2022, No Comments on 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 In Videmption From Sega: Jumanji

February 3, 2022, No Comments on 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

GENDA-Owned Sega Arcades To Change Name To GiGO In Japan

January 28, 2022, 2 Comments on 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

The Lyman Sheats Tribute Post

January 24, 2022, No Comments on 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

Newsbytes: RIP Lyman Sheats; Park Avenue 2022; NeoXperience; New Games For PlayChoice-10 & Much More

January 22, 2022, 1 Comment on 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)

The Arcade Anniversaries of 2022 (25, 40 & 50 Year Milestones)

January 11, 2022, 3 Comments on 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

Pre-Orders Open For Akai Katana/Crimson Katana EXA Label

January 6, 2022, No Comments on 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

January 1, 2022, Comments Off on 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

2021 Year-In-Review With The Top 10 Posts

December 31, 2021, No Comments on 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 »

Stern Pinball Teases Their First Game Of 2022 – Rush

Stern Pinball Teases Their First Game Of 2022 – Rush

December 28, 2021, 1 Comment on Stern Pinball Teases Their First Game Of 2022 – Rush

I’m happy to report that we won’t be ending the year on the bad news of the GameWorks closure – we’ve got a new pinball machine to discuss. I may also have a new arcade game to talk about too, depending on what answer I get from the manufacturer. Stern Pinball has launched this »

Kevin Williams: GameWorks – The Slow Collapse Of The Dream!

Kevin Williams: GameWorks – The Slow Collapse Of The Dream!

December 27, 2021, 1 Comment on 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 »