Welcome to Location Watch, our series of posts at AH that cover recently-launched arcades across the world. If you’re curious to find out which new arcade businesses have opened up lately, this is the place to be. This covers the recent grand openings for out-of-home entertainment establishments such as arcades, bar/arcades, retrocades, Family Entertainment Centers [...]
Long-time readers of the site might remember a story from a few years ago regarding an enormous version of Taito’s signature arcade game being released in Japan. Space Invaders Gigamax is a mighty impressive piece of arcade gaming, especially when projected onto the side of a building. Now, Americans will get to enjoy the experience, [...]
We’ve got more Atari news to share today, this time in regards to a slightly obscure remake of a 1983 arcade release that was then called Food Fight. Let’s get into both that and the upcoming Food Fight Frenzy, designed by new Arcade Heroes advertiser, Slackerz Inc. Food Fight OG Released in March of 1983, [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news from around the world of arcades and pinball. It’s been a little while since we last had one of these but enough stuff has come together for another round. Let’s go! Big Buck Hunter World Championships XV Day 2 The 15th annual BBH championships began in earnest yesterday [...]
So arcade news this month has been….slow, to put it nicely. I could perhaps be going back to the old days where I posted about every small bit of news as its own post as there has been a thing or two to talk about, such as Touch Magix has availability of SpaceWarp 66 & [...]
We’ve got another bit of news for a game that will be launching soon to arcades via the exA-Arcadia, one that I’ve spend a bit of time with when at IAAPA by the name of Shadow Gangs X. If you haven’t watched the video above, Shadow Gangs X is a game made in the style [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post where I curate news from around the world of arcades & pinball for your weekend reading pleasure. Let’s start with something pinball: The Playable Pinball Coffee Table By Build XYZ Building your own pinball machine is a daunting challenge but rebuilding one into a coffee table isn’t anything to sneeze [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated collection of news from the world of arcades & pinball, run on the weekends. As a note, I am working on a new Location Watch post and continue to work on the Games of 2021 video, among other things. Lyman F. Sheats Passes Away At 55 I hate to start [...]
It’s a new year, and with arcade news being a tiny bit slow, I figured it would be a good time to bring an old article series back – looking at arcade anniversaries. This time I’m going to cover major games that are turning 25 (1997), 40 (1982) and 50 (1972), since we can now [...]
Greetings and welcome to my first round-up of arcade news from IAAPA 2021. It took place this week in Orlando, FL, where for some of you keeping up on Arcade Heroes via YouTube, Guilded or Discord, will have heard of some of these things already. But for those who prefer to read as well as [...]