Welcome to the first Newsbytes of 2026. This is a series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up…
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The Arcade Anniversaries of 2025
With a new year upon us, you are likely to come across an anniversary or two out there in relation…
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Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review 2024: Business, New Games, History & More
Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2024. Let’s take a look back at the last twelve months and provide…
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Celebrating 26 Years of Sega’s NAOMI
9/9/99 is the iconic date that most Sega fans celebrate when it comes to Sega gaming hardware, as that was…
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Super Sizing Amusement! – Part 1
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams (KWP), takes a look at…
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Retro Arcade Remakes & Atari Join Forces For PCB Reproductions [UPDATED]
– Retro Arcades got back to me and stated: “Licensed Atari PCB boards Major Havoc, Black Widow, Gravitor, War Lords,…
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Retrospective: PCs Powering Arcade Machines
April tends to be a very slow month for arcade news, since most of the info that pertains to the…
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Previewing the Arcade Anniversaries of 2023
Each year marks some kind of anniversary, although we tend to only pay attention to those ending in a 0…
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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…
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The Video Arcade Industry Turns 50 As We Mark The Launch Of Computer Space
50 years ago today, things would change forever in interactive entertainment – not just for the coin-op amusement industry, but…
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