Arcades were the place to be in the 1980s for gamers, but these three games proved to be incredibly challenging.

The 1980s followed the lead of the arcade games from the '70s that started everything, expanding the video game industry considerably. Many arcade games from the early '80s defined the scene's golden ...

While the beat-’em-up genre grew to epic proportions in the 1990s, it began in the late 1980s with some exceptional titles that introduced the concept to a generation of gamers. They were relatively ...

Cold War paranoia certainly seems like a video game fantasy today. There’s something genuinely special about Missile Command, and no, it’s not just that it’s an old game a lot of old people have ...

One of the first-ever video arcade game shows, Starcade, is coming back. Multi-platform media company Shout! Factory has acquired the TV rights to Starcade from creators James Caruso and Mavis E.

Enter a converted warehouse in Brooklyn or a strip-mall arcade in Austin in 2026, and you'll find a familiar scene: glowing cabinets, the hum of old machines, a ...