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IAAPA 2023: The Sega Amusements Round-Up
New arcade games have been announced via the IAAPA 2023 trade show, so it’s time to digest what is headed to venues for you to play. As mentioned previously, instead of lumping all of
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Arcade Unboxing & Review: Enter The Gungeon – House of the Gundead
It’s been a little over a year since I did an “unboxing” of an arcade machine – although that wasn’t of any new game, but a pair of oldies. Business just hasn’t been conducive
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IAAPA 2022 Round-Up #2 – New Arcade Games For 2023
Welcome to Part #2 of my IAAPA 2022 review; If you missed it, here’s Part #1. This post will repeat much of the first part for the games lists; Then I’ll continue thoughts on
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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
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Newsbytes: Cruis’n Blast Switch Review; RIP Gene Lipkin & Frank Pellegrini; Rival Megagun XE Release; Disenchantment Test & More
Hello and welcome to Newsbytes, a semi-regular weekend post that curates arcade & pinball news from around the world for your enjoyment. This one, in particular, is packed with videos, so if you’re in
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Newsbytes: Metal Slug Code J; Terminator Review; Golden Tee Go!; Beat Saber News; & More
Hello and welcome to this summer edition of Newsbytes. Arcade news itself has been pretty slow this week, apart from talking about Chuck E. Cheeses, but we’ve got enough “bytes” to hopefully tide you
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Newsbytes: Insert Coin Trailer; Exa-Arcadia Shipments; EAG 2020 & More
Hello there, and welcome to another exciting edition of Newsbytes. As a Monday edit, footage of Sega’s Mission: Impossible Arcade has been embedded below. Insert Coin Documentary Trailer This should’ve got it’s own post
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Newsbytes: IAAPA 2019 Final Wrap-up; Star Wars Battle Pod Review; Virtua On Hotel Arena & More
Hello kind readers, and welcome to another edition of Newsbytes. This is a weekend post where I gather some quick news items together to discuss so you have something to read over said weekend.
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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
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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
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Book Review: NBA Jam by Reyan Ali/Boss Fight Books
While I cannot recall the first time I heard about Midway’s NBA Jam, I can remember when I came across one for the first time. I was a fresh teenager and the part of
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Book Review: Arcade Perfect: How Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat And Other Coin-op Classics Invaded The Living Room by David Craddock
It has been a while since we did a book review on the site, as books about the subject of arcades are not exactly plentiful. That changed slightly this weekend after David L. Craddock
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