While it is unusual for a Newsbytes to be published outside of a weekend, it is still September while I type – assuming I can finish what Ted and others on the AH Discord have helped to compile and send over in enough time, it can be a hybrid closer for Q3 and opener for [...]
Things have been a little bit quiet for the blog lately, but I’ve been super busy. Big nod to Ted for helping out on many stories and drafts during this time. In the meantime, I’ve been to two gaming expos in the past few weeks, California Extreme & the Utah Retro GameXpo. With those out [...]
The return of Atari and Asteroids to arcades is upon us, as the former revealed today in a press release about orders opening for Asteroids Recharged Arcade on their website. Note that Adam has recently been doing some consultancy for the developers of this arcade machine (Alan-1 Inc.), so Ted is taking this post and [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, our regular series of posts at Arcade Heroes that rounds up quick bites of news from around the world of arcades and pinball. As ever, Summer can be a slow season for such news, but thanks to our many readers out there, we’re able to scrap some things together outside of your [...]
Mere weeks after being revealed to the world, Utah-based Alan-1 Inc. has begun testing out their new Asteroids Recharged arcade game. What is slightly unusual though is that this is a location test where I’m not reporting about it from photos sent in to me – this time, I’m the source. Let’s explain. Asteroids Recharged [...]
We don’t often see pre-orders in the video arcade space, but newcomer Alan-1 Inc. has posted pre-orders for both their 2 & 3-player models on Asteroids Recharged and Avian Knights. Asteroids Recharged Arcade As you might have seen previously here on the blog, Asteroids is coming back to arcades through Alan-1 Inc. and Atari. Despite [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post that curates news from around the world of arcades & pinball. It’s been about a month since the last one of these posts, so there are a few things to mention, although news has been slightly slow. Avian Knights Holds World Competition Back on January 27th, Alan-1 held their world [...]
Welcome to the Arcade Heroes “round-up” of Amusement Expo 2023. This will show off & discuss various games which appeared at this trade show which was held last week in Las Vegas. The short of it is: There are many new arcade games out there for locations to purchase now, and sales for game makers [...]
It looks like 2023 is shaping up to see the return of indie arcade games, and today’s story is about one that will debut at Amusement Expo 2023 in Las Vegas the last week of this month. Called Jousting Heroes, this game looks to bring a game like the original Joust back to arcades (and [...]