92: All the Small Things
Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review 2025: Business, New Games, Top 10 Posts & More
RAS2025-12-31T19:03:57+00:00Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2025, our annual rundown of arcade happenings across various bases. As well as the usual top 10 posts and content at the end of the post, here you will find our summaries of how things have gone for the site in general, a state of the business side, trade shows, new games and more. It’s been a mixed year overall with some downs, but also ups, so let’s take a look…
Lightweaver – Illuminating Museums and Festivals
RAS2025-12-31T17:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. In 8th grade, Todd Moyer fell in love with making after combining a shop class assignment — a little gadget that varied a lightbulb’s voltage in response to audio signals — with his home stereo and some Christmas lights, turning his room into a disco club. “The exhilaration I felt was not just from pretty lights and music, but the feeling of empowerment that came...
December 31, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, interactive art, lights, Made On Earth, Make940 Comments
Alan-1 Begins Shipping Gravitar: Recharged Arcade
RAS2025-12-31T00:56:31+00:00Barring a last second announcement from anyone else, we appear to have our final arcade release of 2025. Alan-1 has begun shipping out the arcade version of Atari’s Gravitar: Recharged to interested parties. Let’s take a look.
Gravitar – A Brief History
The original Gravitar was designed by Mike Hally, released by Atari in August 1982. As a unique variation on their uber-popular Asteroids, it gained notoriety as one of the most difficult arcade games...Location Watch December 2025: New Arcades Open In Time For 2026
RAS2025-12-30T19:07:32+00:00Welcome to the last 2025 edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers brand new arcade locations which have opened all over the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations we hear about, but thanks to various readers, our own research on social media, and other arcade news sites like RePlay Magazine and InterGame Online, we do our best at making it comprehensive. If you missed the news on our previous Location Watch posts...
The Connect 4 Musical Instrument: A Creative Fusion of Music and Technology
RAS2025-12-29T20:16:29+00:00At last fall’s Maker Faire Bay Area, Ben showcased the ‘Connect 4 Musical Instrument’. It is a twist on the classic strategy game, but this one plays music as you play the game. Ben shares how this project combined elements of game design, music technology, and interactive art. Ben showed us how his idea evolved from the question, “What if Connect 4 made music?” Transform it into a functional prototype. Ben’s simple yet complex system uses RFID sensors in the...
20 Years of Make: Triumph of the Makers
RAS2025-12-29T18:26:56+00:00Twenty years ago, I wrote a column called “News from the Future” for the first issue of Make: magazine. I based it on the notion from science-fiction writer William Gibson that “The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Makers, hackers, hobbyists, and enthusiasts, I argued, are living in a future that we will all one day catch up to. The list of projects from early issues of Make: did indeed bring momentous news from the future. Drones,...
Display your photos like they’re in MacPaint
RAS2025-12-28T18:34:26+00:00Arduino Team — December 28th, 2025 Every millennial knows the exhilarating feeling of going to the computer lab, booting up a Macintosh, and creating beautiful art in MacPaint. The nostalgia meter has broken its dial and is now spinning wildly. If you want to capture that nostalgia in a form suitable for home décor, you can build Mark Wilson’s fantastic LackPaint to display your photos like they’re in MacPaint. LackPaint is basically a digital photo...
Episode #817 – 1946: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1
RAS2025-12-28T18:10:53+00:00Air Week: December 29, 2025-January 4, 2026
1946: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 1
Kick off the New Year, by looking back 80 years to 1946! The “Juke In The Back” once again puts our old Rockola Jukebox in the forefront as we spotlight the biggest Rhythm & Blues jukebox hits of 1946. In part 1, we’ll focus on the first half of the year, featuring Wynonie “Mr. Blues” Harris’ first hit as a solo artist and bandleader...December 28, 2025RASUncategorized1940s, 1946, blues, Instrumental, Jukebox Hits, Jump Blues, R&B, Rhythm & Blues, Uncategorized0 Comments
90’s Techno Art: Rap Caviar
RAS2025-12-26T17:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. Over five decades ago, in 1973, DJ Kool Herc changed music forever by using two turntables, each playing the same record, with a mixer to switch between them, in order to extend percussion breaks indefinitely. In the 1980s the “failure” of Roland’s TR-808 to successfully emulate a real drummer was embraced by hiphop and techno pioneers who used its synthetic sound as the bedrock to...
December 26, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, Fun & Games, Made On Earth, Make94, mashup, sculpture, technoart, video games0 Comments
