Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news stories from around the world of arcades and pinball that I semi-regularly post here to Arcade Heroes. It had been a while since the last one, in part due to some life troubles going on for me lately (one of several being the SSD on my main PC [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a semi-regular post that curates news from around the world of arcades & pinball for your weekend reading & viewing pleasure. It’s been almost a month since the last one as the shorter bits of such news haven’t been available in abundance, and I’ve also been spending a ton of time on [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a semi-regular collection of arcade & pinball news items from around the world. This week has quite a few interesting stories, particularly when it comes to arcade history, so I hope you enjoy it. Note that I’ll be posting a final round-up/recap of Amusement Expo 2022 this coming week; It’s been delayed [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts that curates some quick news from around the world of arcades & pinball. We’re a bit heavier on the pinball this week, which is no problem at all. Let’s get to it: Stern Pinball To Launch Insider Connected This Fall I hate to say this, but pinball is [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curation of quick arcade & pinball-related content that I hold for the weekend. I meant to post this on Saturday but getting sidetracked never helps. I was hoping that more news would’ve shown up in the interim, but since it didn’t, let’s go: Namco Testing Fishing Spirits Real Hit In Japan [...]
Welcome to another weekend, and with that, another Newsbytes. Let’s get to it! Mobile Suit Gundam: Arsenal Base Japan is well ahead of the West when it comes to card arcade games, although we’re slowly catching up in that regard. Still, this new Gundam card game is certainly looking sharp and will probably be a [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curation of quick news from around the amusement/arcade/pinball world. I’m your host, ArcadeHero, and here’s what I’ve gathered for this weekend: The Viral Bowling Alley Drone Video You’ve probably seen this already, but just in case you haven’t, here you go. The piloting on the drone is masterful in how it [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a quick collection of news items from around the wonderful world of arcades. I’m your host, Arcadehero, curator & commentator on the content. Today is also my first day out of isolation after I came down with The Virus. Fortunately, no one else in my home got it, no one at work [...]
Welcome to the first Newsbytes of 2021, where I collect some quick news stories from around the world of arcades & pinball for your weekend reading pleasure. It was a bit delayed and almost didn’t happen for the weekend as I had to get our first item done in time and had other things to [...]
[Thanks to everyone who sent me various links about this. I’ll be using Ars Technica for the main source] First person shooters in arcades – not on-rails light-gun titles, but the kind that regularly take the home console arena by storm – have never done terribly well on the coin-op scene, but they have existed. [...]