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Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2024. Let\u2019s take a look back at the last twelve months and provide a \u201cState of the Industry\u201d 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<\/a>, but that\u2019s not always the case. How did this year work out? Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n 2024 marked the 18th year in the operation of Arcade Heroes.<\/a> We didn\u2019t make any drastic changes to much, although there have been a few backend changes outside of our control that have caused some slight headaches. If you look at any old posts pre-late 2016 and don\u2019t see an embedded video or media from an external site where it should be, check back soon (or use the Wayback Machine to see an older capture where it will show up) \u2013 that\u2019s all in the process of being fixed still, thanks to some inconvenient formatting changes on WordPress\u2019 end\u2026<\/p>\n YouTube<\/a> continues to be our best point in social media growth, last year just cresting 17k subscribers, while for 2025 we are now within striking distance of 20,000. I\u2019ll have to figure out something fun to do once we have surpassed that threshold.<\/p>\n Co-contributors like Ted, Oga-Shi and Kevin Williams have also been a huge boon and deserve credit here, as I\u2019ve become a lot busier this year. They have allowed more stories and coverage to get out there than would have otherwise taken place. All three have attended international trade shows I was not there for, Kevin wrote another of his occasional special features to sum up all the latest developments in the rhythm gaming scene<\/a> (which has had a big 2024), and Ted also helped put together a great interview featuring Oga-Shi that you can read here.<\/a><\/p>\n Going into 2025, there will be even more interesting content and a new area of the site we will be looking into doing, based on some suggestions by Oga-Shi a short time ago. But we\u2019ll wait to discuss that for when we have something moving along there, which might begin next month\u2026<\/p>\n For those who are new to the site, I operate a real arcade location in Salt Lake City, UT by the name of Arcade Galactic<\/a>. When I started documenting the development of that arcade on the site here, it was known as the Game Grid Arcade<\/a>, but I had to change the name in 2020 to avoid an expensive court fight (one that I could have won with enough capital, since I had the name first, but the below video explains my decision).<\/p>\n \nYear-In-Review: The Website<\/h3>\n
Business Talk<\/h3>\n