Tag: Gaming Arcade
The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade: 1986
1986: Very much the year of the sequel, tech consolidation, and an understandable flattening of the innovation curve. Little did we know that, behind the scenes, this was the beginning of the end for the Video Game arcade. If I had the chance to jump on the video game merry-go-round for any year, it would…
3 Classic Gaming Genres that are Still Fun Today
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Even in the era of Unreal Engine, season passes, and downloadable content, there are still some classic gaming recipes that will live forever. It’s funny I should say recipe because today I’ve rediscovered some of those classic gaming moments at an online resource aimed at familiarising children with food through gaming. There are over 100…
The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade: 1985
1985: The year the video game arcade reached its peak. Here’s just a few of the highlights. But it wasn’t just in the arcade that 1985 made such an impact. As an impressionable 11-year-old, it had a number of world-changing moments: Wrestling 1985 was the year I first got exposed to the colorful world of…
The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade
This new blog series will chronicle a golden age of my life, before home consoles, social media and even mobile phones took over. I was lucky to be born in 1974. As a young boy I witnessed the birth of the arcade computer game (and computer games in general) in the late 70’s, was a…
