It’s time to catch up on new arcade releases for North America, with three games that are available now to order from Alan-1, Ace Amusement/Amusement Source International, and UNIS/IGS. Also as a quick note, Jamjam’n Jelly EXA LENTE just finished its test in Japan. As of this publication, it is not up for pre-order, but [...]
With a new year upon us, you are likely to come across an anniversary or two out there in relation to some of your favorite video games. Since we cover arcades here, we’re going to look at the games that were released 50, 40, 25, and 10 years ago – guaranteed to make you feel [...]
The first major amusement-focused trade show of this year is now just around the corner, as EAG Expo 2025 is about to start up at London’s ExCel venue for three days from tomorrow. In case there are any new readers viewing this, the EAG Expo serves the Entertainment, Attractions and Gaming industries of the UK [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts at Arcade Heroes that covers everything happening in the arcade and pinball world. Being so soon into 2025, there isn’t a ton of major news out there, but some of the more notable stories that have popped up since the last one were all concerning different titles on [...]
It has been quite a long time since we last reported on a new arcade prototype being found, and to clarify, when we cover this, we usually mean a game that was never released. The last time we had such a report was about an Atari Slot 4 game that was found, but this was [...]
It’s the first week of January, which aside from it being a new year, means that its time for Stern Pinball to unveil their next game. Last year the reveal was of JAWS, while this year, the company is looking to roll a 20 with Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye. Let’s enter the dungeon… [...]
Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2024. Let’s take a look back at the last twelve months and provide a “State of the Industry” report for you to consider. We have done these most years on the site; our last for 2023 unfortunately ended on a slightly sour note, but that’s not always the [...]
Welcome to another edition of Newsbytes, the series of posts at AH that brings together the latest news from around the arcade and pinball worlds. It’s been a little quiet this month, with the IAAPA buzz dying down and a lot of people in the industry seemingly either too busy behind the scenes or on [...]
Continuing with our IAAPA 2024 wrap-up, which will soon be completed once and for all, let’s take a look at more of the players within the industry that fit the video game side of amusement more so than the redemption one. We’ve already covered our advertisers and big names like Raw Thrills, Bandai Namco, and [...]
Following a successful showing at IAAPA 2024 that saw it awarded a coveted Brass Ring Award, Utah based Alan-1 has begun shipping both the Pro and Deluxe models of their Asteroids Recharged arcade game that first debuted at Amusement Expo 2024 earlier this year. The units actually began shipping right before the show, but we [...]