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Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review 2025: Business, New Games, Top 10 Posts & More

Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review 2025: Business, New Games, Top 10 Posts & More

Arcadian December 31, 2025 0

Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2025, our annual rundown of arcade happenings across various bases. As well as the usual top 10 posts and content at the end of the post, here

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Alan-1 Begins Shipping Gravitar: Recharged Arcade

Alan-1 Begins Shipping Gravitar: Recharged Arcade

Arcadian December 30, 2025 0

Barring a last second announcement from anyone else, we appear to have our final arcade release of 2025. Alan-1 has begun shipping out the arcade version of Atari’s Gravitar: Recharged to interested parties. Let’s

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Wahlap’s Storm Racer 2 Now Available In North America

Wahlap’s Storm Racer 2 Now Available In North America

Arcadian December 16, 2025 0

Revealed earlier this year and also seen at IAAPA 2025, we have confirmation that Wahlap’s Storm Racer 2 is now available in North America. Quick background and the deeper details right afterwards. Background In

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Prototype Uncovered: Atari Games’ JAMMIN

Prototype Uncovered: Atari Games’ JAMMIN

Arcadian December 11, 2025 0

It has been a long while since we had news on a never-released arcade game and its prototype, but over the years we have covered several. Those include: Dropzone Arcade; Atari’s Arrk Arrh; and

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Arcade Heroes Celebrates 19 Years Of Covering Arcade News & Fun

Arcade Heroes Celebrates 19 Years Of Covering Arcade News & Fun

Arcadian December 3, 2025 0

It is hard to believe, but as of today, this site is now nineteen years old. Let’s take this opportunity to look back at some of the events we’ve had over those years, while

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IAAPA 2025 Wrap-Up Part 3: exA-Arcadia, AVS Companies, JET Games

IAAPA 2025 Wrap-Up Part 3: exA-Arcadia, AVS Companies, JET Games

Arcadian December 2, 2025 0

Welcome to the third part of our IAAPA 2025 wrap-up, the series of posts that comb through the arcade games and companies that appeared at the expo. Today we are taking a look at

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Retro Gamer & Former Arcade Hero Writer Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away

Retro Gamer & Former Arcade Hero Writer Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away

Arcadian December 2, 2025 0

It is with a heavy heart that we have learned of the news that Retro Gamer’s Nick Thorpe passed away yesterday at the age of 38. This was first confirmed by Retro Gamer editor

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Japan Amusement Expo 2025: The Recap

Japan Amusement Expo 2025: The Recap

Arcadian November 17, 2025 0

The biggest amusement trade show of November is now only hours away, but before another IAAPA starts we have the matter of Japan’s Amusement Expo 2025 to recap. The two being so close to

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The Great IAAPA Expo 2025 Preview

The Great IAAPA Expo 2025 Preview

Arcadian November 14, 2025 0

Welcome to our IAAPA 2025 preview! In these annual posts before the event, we meticulously gather all of the information on the various manufacturers and their games that has been made available in advance

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exA-Arcadia Launches New Games, To Show Baki Hanma & Toxic Crusaders At IAAPA 2025

exA-Arcadia Launches New Games, To Show Baki Hanma & Toxic Crusaders At IAAPA 2025

Arcadian November 14, 2025 0

Among our final entries in previews for the IAAPA 2025 tradeshow is exA-Arcadia. They often have a big roster of new games, if not the biggest, due to the ability to operate multiple games

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