In the second part of his trip down arcade memory lane, Kevin Williams (KWP) continues to discuss “Deluxe” and “Super Deluxe cabinet designs. Editing and several additions were thrown in by myself, Arcadehero. If you missed the first part, click here! KWP: The first part of our coverage looked at the history of Deluxe (DX) [...]
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams (KWP), takes a look at the history of the “Deluxe” and “Super Deluxe” categories of arcade cabinet hardware. These now dominate the arcade landscape, so I felt it fitting to see how we got here. Original text is from Mr. [...]
It’s been a slow arcade news week, but not to worry, Amusement Expo 2022 is just around the corner and that means we’ll have some things to talk about again. Unfortunately we can’t still can’t expect a deluge of announcements as the supply/production problems continue to plague most manufacturers at the moment. That said, some [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post where we take a quick look at bits of arcade & pinball news from around the world. It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these as news like this can be a little slow around this time of year. As it is, this Newsbytes will be shorter [...]
[Thanks to Jdevy for the tip] Note that this post is discussing a game model that has not officially been announced; As it is on test, it may change significantly from what you see here, or it may never reach production. We occasionally hear about new games popping up on Christmas week, and today’s news [...]
Well, it’s February, and it seems like arcade news is picking up to a point where there’s enough to discuss. I probably won’t be able to do a new Location Watch for a while, but hopefully, by the summer we’ll start hearing of new locations opening again. Anyways, onto Newsbytes, a curation of quick arcade [...]
I haven’t spent too much time on discussing the mini-arcades that have exploded onto the home scene, apart from some mentions on Newsbytes, but enough news has come along this week for several competing brands that it warrants it’s own post. Let’s take a look at what’s out there: Neo Geo MVSX Announced I was [...]
It’s been a roller coaster of a year so far, but outside of the current pause on the economy & subsequently the amusement industry, things have been shaping up to provide a strong line-up of games to the arcade business. Today, in some welcome news, we can add one more game to the list, and [...]
A few weeks ago, some big news came along that Taito was testing out a new head-to-head pinball concept by the name of Space Invaders Pinball Jam. Readers were so interested in this story, that despite being published on the last week of 2018, it skyrocketed to become the #1 post published within the 12 [...]
Every time a new pinball machine is released, fans are already looking to the next game, and when we heard about The Beatles, rumors were circulating that The Munsters was next. Today, with CES 2019 upon us, Stern Pinball has officially confirmed those rumors, and shown the game off through the streaming pinball wizard Dead [...]