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Retronauts Talk Street Fighter
I am a massive videogame podcast listener and one of my favourites is 1UP’s Retronauts. This week I was pleasantly surprised that thier latest episode was all about the Street Fighter series which I highly recommend. Everything is talked about, from the fantastic Alpha series and the upcoming SF4 to the not so fantastic Street Fighter »
Stern Still Going Strong
The New York Times published a story that profiled small, entrepreneurial companies that are/have made changes to adapt to changing times and markets. One of these companies was the one and only Stern Pinball, read on….. Take Gary Stern, a second-generation pinball entrepreneur. In the early 1990s, about five companies in the United »
Tron and Battlezone CG cabinets by Peter Hirschberg
This has been fairly slow week without a lot of news to post about but don’t worry, we’re still here. I’ll put this post into a ‘time waster’ category but a cool time waster nonetheless (for you classic gamers anyways). Very nice 3D animation of the BattleZone and Tron arcade cabinets by Peter Hirschberg. »
Tron and Prince of Persia Coming to XBLA
Two new entries appeared on the ESRB’s updated list today, which sound like additional Xbox Live Arcade titles. Prince of Persia has been rumored to come to the Xbox 360 sometime and somewhat confirming this rumor is a listing for Prince of Persia Classic with Ubisoft as the publisher. Probably more left wing »
Retronauts talk Arcade
One of my favourite podcasts, Retronauts, based thier latest discussion (1/2/07) on the American arcade, past and present. It makes for an interesting listen, although I do think that they were a bit negative on today’s modern arcade »
Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot/Arcade Goes On Test At Round1USA
Back in July, the surprise story of the Summer broken by us was the quiet appearance of a Resident Evil 2 arcade lightgun shooter from Bandai Namco and Capcom on location test in the UK. Thanks to the game’s big name, it was quickly picked up by various other gaming news outlets, with the »
New Games From Andamiro USA For IAAPA 2025: Nickelodeon Kart Racers Arcade, Marksman, More
The next company we’re taking a look at for IAAPA 2025 is Andamiro USA. This year, the company is putting a little more video content out than normal; if you are new to the site, we tend to put most of our focus on video games instead of redemption, since the latter doesn’t really »
Alan-1 Brings The Atari PONG Coffee Table Back To Life
Way back in 2017, a small French company by the name of Calinfer created a little electromechanical wonder, which simulated Atari’s 1972 video game PONG. Designed as an interactive coffee table, the idea quickly garnered a lot of attention and reportedly sold very well. Now, Alan-1, site sponsor and makers of the Atari Recharged »
Location Watch October 2025: New Arcades Open Their Doors Worldwide
Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers the news of brand new arcade locations which have opened from all over the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations that we hear about, but thanks to various readers, and other arcade news sites »
Introducing Arcade Heroes’ Arcade Hall Of Fame
Most gamers should be aware of the World Video Game Hall of Fame, the Strong Museum of Play’s official collection of video games deemed culturally and artistically important. Plenty of games that either released in or originated from arcades have been inducted into that group (for a recent update to their exposition, Defender joined »
