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Newsbytes: A Personal Arcade Experience; Exa-Arcadia Update; Sega’s Execution & More
Hello there boys and girls, and welcome to another exciting edition of Newsbytes. It’s been a little bit since we’ve done this due to the work needed on IAAPA videos, but note that I am pretty much finished on that end. Just need to finish work on the VR game supercut and then back »
IAAPA Expo 2019 #4 – UNIS; Pinball; Touch Magix & More.
IAAPA Expo 2019 closed a couple of weeks ago, but it was busy enough to provide content for plenty of blog posts. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get to these posts as quickly as I would have liked, but better late than never I suppose! In case you missed our previous coverage, then »
As Arcade Heroes Turns 13, Let’s Find Out Your Game of the Decade!
December 3rd seems to be an important date for game history. In 1979, the Intellivision game console was launched; in 1994, the first Sony PlayStation launched. And on December 3rd 2006, this website launched! Ok, so we’re hardly in the same class as a game console launch, but today is the day that this »
IAAPA Expo 2019 #3 – Sega, Taito, UNIS, Indie Games
Let’s continue our coverage of the IAAPA Expo 2019 event, but before jumping into that, here are links to the first two stories (In case you missed them) IAAPA 2019 Post #1 IAAPA 2019 Post #2 This post will be media heavy, but should include some tidbits of news that was not covered in »
IAAPA Expo 2019 #2 – Tournaments; Injustice Series #3; Super Firing; Speed Driver 5; More Taito
Following up from the Day #1 post, I was so busy that I couldn’t do a Day #2 and Day #3 post like I had wanted to do, so I’ll just call this Official IAAPA 2019 Post #2. With the show now over, I can offer a review on my thoughts and impressions from »
IAAPA 2019 Day 1: Sega, Raw Thrills, LAI Games, TouchMagix, UNIS, & More
Day 1 of the IAAPA Expo 2019 event has come and gone, and boy was it a loooong one. That’s not to say it wasn’t fun though (it just gets a little exhausting to stand & walk that much 😉 ) Here are some impressions that I’ll share with you from the various games »
Raw Thrills & Play Mechanix Officially Unveils Nitro Trucks
IAAPA Expo 2019 opens today, and with that, so do the floodgates for arcade news. For our first unveil is something teased by Raw Thrills a short time ago – their latest racing title: Nitro Trucks. Jumping back in time for a moment, to 2011, many will recall the last time that we saw »
Sega Amusement To Debut Mission: Impossible Arcade At IAAPA 2019
A while back, Sega Amusements had been teasing a “major license” as a part of their upcoming IAAPA 2019 video line-up. For a while we could only speculate as to what it would be; then news of Mario & Sonic Olympics 2020 came along, and we kind of wondered if that might be it. »
Highlight: Current Indie Arcade Games
Before IAAPA 2019 kicks into full-swing, I wanted to put a spotlight on the real, independently developed coin-op arcade titles that are out there. Without a major license and marketing budget, the challenge of turning your game creation into a commercial pay-per-play arcade game is a daunting task. More has to be done than »
Newsbytes: Pac-Man 40th; CarnEvil 21st & Other Milestones
Welcome to this rushed edition of Newsbytes, a collection of quick arcade-related news pieces that I try and post on Saturday. That didn’t work out thanks to a load of work that I had to take care of yesterday. Bandai Namco Reveals Big Plans To Celebrate 40 years of Pac-Man 2020 marks 40 years »
Exa Boards By Exa-Arcadia Are Now Available For Pre-Order
The Exa board, by Exa-Arcadia, is something that has been a frequent subject of the posts here on Arcade Heroes. In case you missed those posts, let me sum it up in a sentence: The Exa Board is a modern Neo Geo MVS, a conversion kit that can go into an existing JVS cabinet »