Arcadian    It has been a long while since we had news on a never-released arcade game and its prototype, but over the years we have covered several. Those include: Dropzone Arcade; Atari’s Arrk Arrh; and Kung Fu Master 2, among many others. We even have a section dedicated to unreleased prototype games as you...

Arcadian    Continuing our coverage of the IAAPA 2025 trade show that took place in Orlando, FL, we are now taking a look at three companies who have a fairly strong connection to one another: North American distributors Amusement Source International and Coastal Amusements, and Ace Amusement. The latter has...

Arcadian    Continuing our coverage of the IAAPA 2025 trade show that took place in Orlando, FL last month, this fourth wrap-up post gets a few varied companies out of the way: China’s UNIS, one of the biggest names in amusement out of that country, the two major factories in pinball that appeared at the show...

Arcadian    It is hard to believe, but as of today, this site is now nineteen years old. Let’s take this opportunity to look back at some of the events we’ve had over those years, while looking forward to the future. Why We Do What We Do As we often do on this anniversary, we link back [&hellip The post Arcade...

Arcadian    Welcome to the third part of our IAAPA 2025 wrap-up, the series of posts that comb through the arcade games and companies that appeared at the expo. Today we are taking a look at the main exhibitors who had a bend towards video games (with one exception): exA-Arcadia; a variety from the AVS...

Arcadian    It is with a heavy heart that we have learned of the news that Retro Gamer’s Nick Thorpe passed away yesterday at the age of 38. This was first confirmed by Retro Gamer editor Darran Jones and picked up by Time Extension today; the reason we are giving this a special post is because several ...

Arcadian    Welcome to the second part of our IAAPA 2025 wrap-up, where we run down the various companies with new arcade games that were at the show this year. Last time gave a look at Arcade Heroes’ site advertisers, and in this post we have a few big names in the form of Bandai Namco, Sega [&hellip The post...

Arcadian    Welcome to the first part of our in-depth wrap-up coverage of IAAPA 2025, in which we take a company-by-company look at the major new arcade games and amusement innovations seen at the show. As is tradition by now, this initial instalment will concern Arcade Heroes’ faithful sponsors at the time of...

Arcadian    Welcome to another Newsbytes, the series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that goes over small bytes of news from around the arcade and pinball worlds. It’s been a little while since the last of these, and there’s plenty that has got kind of lost in the shuffle between the trade shows this month, so ...

Arcadian    The biggest amusement trade show of November is now only hours away, but before another IAAPA starts we have the matter of Japan’s Amusement Expo 2025 to recap. The two being so close to each other isn’t ideal, for reasons we have already detailed at length, but there’s nothing we can do about that...